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  Jeff Garza, Horn

Level 5 - Apprentice

Etudes

  • Barboteau: Lectures/Excerises
  • Belloli: 8 Studies
  • DeGrave: Etudes
  • Kling: 40 Etudes​
  • Koetiser: 13 Etudes Caracteristiques
  • Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (No. 31-60)
  • Shoemaker: Legato Etudes
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 3
  • Mueller: 34 Etudes
  • Rochut: Melodious Etudes, Book 1
  • Thevet: 65 Sight Reading Exercises

Solos

  • Beethoven: Sonata
  • ​Bozza: Chant Lontain
  • Boroff: Horn Sonata
  • Frackenpohl: Largo and Allegro
  • Gliere: Four Lyrical Pieces
  • Halsey-Stevens: Sonata
  • Hindemith: Horn Sonata
  • Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 and 4
  • Mozart: Concert Rondo​
  • Mozart/Jones: Rondo from Horn Quintet, K. 407
  • Persichetti: Parable
  • Ravel/Jones: Pavane
  • Sinigaglia: Two Pieces
  • F. Strauss: Nocturne
  • ​Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Saint-Saens: Romance Op. 36
  • Vintner: Hunters Moon

Excerpts

  • Bruckner​
  • Prokofiev
  • Rachmaninov
  • Weber

Chamber

  • Beethoven: Septet
  • Nielsen: Wind Quintet
  • Schubert: Auf dem Strom
  • Schubert: Octet

Objectives

  • Average 8 hours daily practice/study
  • G1 to C6
  • Transposition in G, D and A, B-flat
  • Stopped horn
  • Efficiency/endurance
  • Collaborative chamber skills (small ensemble and piano)
  • Fluency in low and middle register

Promotion

  • Scales: Major (2 Octaves)
  • Buzzing: Exercise 4
  • Flexibility: 2 Octaves, F horn harmonics
  • Long Tones: Sound Mediations over 3 octaves
  • Accuracy: Farkas 2.0
  • Stopped horn
  • Proficient at sight reading
  • Proficiency on level appropriate etudes and solo
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