Etudes

  • Getchell: Practical Studies, Book 2​
  • Pottag-Hovey: Method, Book 2
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (1-30)
  • Miersch: Melodious Studies

Solos with Piano

  • Bacon: Selected Songs, Vol. 1
  • Bakaleinikoff: Canzona​​
  • Beethoven/Poole: Andromeda​
  • ​Effinger: Rondino
  • Purcell/Jones: I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly
  • Ployhar: The Hunt
  • ​Scriabin: Romance

Objectives

  • Average 4 hours of weekly practice
  • Gain performance experience in public settings
  • Attend professional performances
  • Basic practice strategies and goal setting
  • Basic warm up
  • Rudimentary phrasing
  • Slurred and tongued articulation
  • Discernible dynamic range from piano to forte
  • Memorize all fingerings

Promotion

  • F3 to G5
  • Scales: Major (1 or 2 octaves - C, F, Bb, Eb, G, D, A)
  • ​Rudimentary ability to read music on sightDemonstrate staccato, tenuto and marcato articulation