Legendary Players
This jazz titan, known as "Satchmo," popularized the trumpet and helped invent the concept of the jazz solo.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This concerto by an Austrian composer is considered the most famous work for the keyed trumpet and is often performed on a B-flat or E-flat instrument.
What is the Haydn Trumpet Concerto?
This piece of equipment has endless varieties and sizes, costs too much money, and leads trumpet players into a never ending purgatory of exploration.
What is the mouthpiece?
The very high register of the trumpet, which requires extreme control and compression to produce notes above a high C.
What is the Clarino register?
This French ballet by Stravinsky requires the Principal Trumpet to play a famously exposed, repeated C5 (high C) at a soft dynamic. And it also has a dance in the middle of it.
What is Petrouchka?
A virtuoso known for his smooth tone and Eastman education, his albums include "Feels So Good" and his signature tune is "Chase the Clouds Away."
Who is Chuck Mangione?
Written in 1939, this popular Hindemith work is one of the pillars of the 20th-century trumpet solo repertoire.
What is the Sonata for Trumpet and Piano?
The part of the trumpet that can be pulled out to fine-tune the instrument.
What is the tuning slide?
In the 1830s, the invention of this type of valve rapidly replaced the older rotary valve system on many brass instruments, including the trumpet.
What is the piston valve?
The second act of this opera features an extended lyrical solo for the trumpet at the very beginning.
What is Don Pasquale by Donizetti?
He is perhaps best known for his rendition of the Arutiunian Concerto, yet was also first trumpet in the Bolshoi Theater.
Who is Timofei Dokshitzer?
This legendary French piece starts and ends with a low c while the middle features a high C and the ending requires the soloist to play a a mute, most often a cup mute.
What is Enesco's Legende?
A device, usually inserted in the bell, that significantly dampens the sound, making practice possible in a dorm or apartment.
What is a practice mute?
Woah, woah, not so fast! This term indicates that you should slow down.
What is a ritard?
The first trumpet part in this Mahler symphony is a famous solo for an off-stage posthorn, often played on a C trumpet.
What is Mahler Symphony No. 3?
This Canadian trumpeter, nicknamed "The Man with the Horn," was celebrated for his impeccable range and melodic flair across jazz and pop music. And he was once Joey's boss.
Who is Maynard Ferguson?
This challenging concerto by an Armenian composer, written in 1950, is dedicated to Soviet trumpeter Sergei Popov and features an extended cadenza.
What is the Concerto by Alexander Arutiunian?
You don't have to say excuse me when you use this piece of equipment that is primarily used with a mouthpiece.
What is a berp?
The german term for bells up that Mahler often uses.
What is Schalltrichter auf?
This Strauss orchestral suite for only 1 trumpet has a prominent trumpet cadenza in it.
What is Le bourgeois gentilhomme?
A pioneering Baroque-specialist, he helped revive the natural trumpet and is known for his recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2.
Who is Crispian Steele-Perkins?
This two-movement piece with a winding interlude is Dr. Bergman's most performed piece of music, a piece he has performed more than 50 times and on 4 continents.
What is Centennial Horizon?
This addition to a trumpet or flugelhorn lets you get an entire partial lower than the lowest note on the instrument.
What is a fourth valve?
This odd instrument is the love child of a flugelhorn and a trumpet, made especially for Art Farmer.
What is a flumpet?
This fantastic piece is the first orchestral work to specifically use a cornet.
What is Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz?