Etudes
Solos
Chamber
Excerpts
Objectives
Promotion
- Chaynes: 15 Etudes
- Gallay: 12 Low Horn Etudes, op. 57
- Gallay: 40 Preludes, op. 27
- Gugel: 12 Etudes
- Koetsier: 13 Characteristic Etudes
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 4
- Rochut: Melodious Etudes, Book 2
- F. Strauss: 17 Concert Etudes
- Thevet: 50 Transposition Exercises
Solos
- Abbott: Alla Caccia
- Berge: Horn Lokk
- Bowen: Horn Sonata
- Dukas: Villanelle
- Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1
- Heiden: Sonata
- Schumann: Adagio and Allegro
- F. Strauss: Concerto
- Strauss: Andante
- Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2
Chamber
- Beethoven: Sextet
- Mozart: Horn Quintet
Excerpts
- Beethoven
- Berlioz
- Debussy
- Dvorak
- Mozart
- Rossini
- Saint-Saens
- Wagner
Objectives
- Average 10 hours of weekly practice/study
- F1 to C-sharp 6
- Transposition in all keys
- Memorize a standard concerto
- Compete in a solo competition
- Familiarity with all standard excerpts
- Audition for a major summer music festival
- Proficient at sight-reading with transposition
- Daily mindfulness and mental focus work
- Recover quickly from mistakes/disappointing performances
- Fluency with lip trills, hand stopping, multiple tonguing, flutter tonguing
- Regular recording and analysis
Promotion
- Scales: Major, Chromatic, Natural Minor (2 octaves)
- Compose original cadenza for a Mozart Concerto
- Buzzing: Exercise 3
- Flexibility: Octaves, F horn harmonics
- Long Tones: Sound Mediations over 2.5 octaves
- Lip Trills: Garza Exercise
- Perform a half-recital program
- Mock audition with standard excerpts
- Sublist ROPA orchestra
- Proficiency on level appropriate etudes and solo