Showing aptitude and interest in developing skills on the horn and willing to practice regularly. Taking regular lessons with a professional teacher.
Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
Orchestral Excerpts
Objectives
Promotion
- Gallay: 22 Studies, Op. 58
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (35-50)
- Schantl: 120 Melodic Pieces (31-60)
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
- Arne/Bacon: Under the Greenwood Tree
- Beethoven/Jones: Scherzo from Septet, Op. 20
- Bozza: En Irlande
- Brahms/Jones: Scherzo from Serenade, Op. 11
- Clerisse: Chant sans Paroles
- Corelli/Solodouiew: Sonata
- Curschmann/Bacon: The Sea is Laughing
- Granados/Bacon: Andaluza
- Handel/Jones: I See a Huntsman
- James: Windmills
- Mendelssohn/Jones: Andante from Symphony No. 5
- Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3
- Piantoni: Air de Chasse
- Schubert/Bacon: Ave Maria
- Schubert/Bacon: Who Is Sylvia?
- Schumann/Bacon: He, The Most Magnificent of All
- Schumann/Bacon: Moonlight
Orchestral Excerpts
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
- Borodin: Symphony No. 2
- Brahms: Symphony No. 1
- Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
- Schubert: Symphony No. 9
- J. Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, Waltz
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
- Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture
- Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, Overture
- Weber: Oberon, Overture
- Williams: Jurassic Park, Theme
Objectives
- Average 5 hours weekly practice
- Introduction to transposition
- Rudimentary style, phrasing, dynamics, articulation
- Practice routine with a metronome, tuner and drone
- Gain performance experience in public settings
Promotion
- Bb2 to Bb5
- 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
- Rudimentary Lip Trills
- Practice routine with a metronome, tuner and drone
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3