Spending the day on the water isn't complete without the perfect playlist. But have you ever heard it played underwater?

Ralph T. Dudgeon, a well-known scholar and major researcher in trumpet performance who served SUNY Cortland for 27 years, will retire on Aug. 31. He has been designated professor emeritus of music.

None of us alive now -- or for the past two hundred years, actually -- remembers when the trumpet was not able to play a melody. As loud, commanding and often shrill as it was; prior to 1800, the ...