Article: Inventory and Development of New Performance Tools in the Horn Repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries

Since Hill’s Extended techniques for the Horn (1983), composers have continued to write challenging music using a variety of new sounds. Further, professional horn players worldwide have expanded their instrument's orchestration beyond the techniques documented in horn treatises. This research classifies new practices through a non-exhaustive inventory of 1) endogenous techniques [related to horn] and 2) exogenous techniques [related to other instruments or art forms]. Each sub-inventory identifies the main performance tools in contemporary horn music, allowing associations with emerging aesthetical approaches. Results may guide composers who develop experimental brass works and provide further means to traditionally trained horn players who approach contemporary repertoire.