Showing aptitude for horn and a willingness to practice. Taking lessons occasionally.
Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
Unaccompanied Solos
Objectives
Promotion
- Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (No. 1-4)
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (31-60)
- Pottag: Preparatory Melodies
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
- Beethoven/Jones: Scherzo from Septet, Op. 20
- Brahms/Jones: Scherzo from Serenade, Op. 11
- Clerisse: Chant sans Paroles
- Handel/Jones: I See a Huntsman
- Mendelssohn/Jones: Andante from Symphony No. 5
- Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1
- Stradella/Jones: Aria
Unaccompanied Solos
- Wilder: Little Detective, Suites 1-3
Objectives
- Average 5 hours weekly practice
- Rudimentary style, phrasing, dynamics, articulation
- Practice routine with a metronome, tuner and drone
- Gain performance experience in public settings
Promotion
- D2 to Ab5
- Scales: Major (1 or 2 octaves, all scales), Chromatic (1 octave)
- Flexibility: 3rds and 5ths, F horn harmonics
- Long Tones: 2 octaves
- Discernible dynamic range of pianissimo to fortissimo
- Practice routine with a metronome, tuner and drone