Advanced students are strong high school or early college level students that practice 30-60 minutes daily while taking weekly lessons. They are often top players in school music programs. Students at this level should be auditioning successfully for regional honor ensembles and youth orchestras.
LEVEL 4 FUNDAMENTALS - PDF
LEVEL 4 FUNDAMENTALS - PDF
Etudes
Solos with Orchestra/Piano
Objectives
Promotion
- Arban: Phrasing Studies
- Barboteau: Lectures/Excercises (1-20)
- Franz: 29 Studies
- Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (5-30)
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 2 (1-20)
- Schantl: 120 Melodic Pieces (31-60)
- Sawyer: Concone Lyrical Studies
Solos with Orchestra/Piano
- Bacon: Selected Songs, Vol. 2
- Bozza: En Irlande -- 🎵
- Cooke: Rondo in B-flat -- 🎵
- Dunhill: Cornucopia -- 🎵
- Glazunov: Reveries -- 🎵
- Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 -- 🎵
- Reger: Scherzino -- 🎵
- Saint-Saens: Romance, Op. 36 -- 🎵
- F. Strauss: Nocturne -- 🎵
Objectives
- 6 hours weekly practice
- Introduction to bass clef
- Study recordings
- Memorization
- Introduction to Stopped horn
Promotion
- B-flat 2 to B-flat 5
- 2 octaves, all major scales
- Demonstrate stopped horn technique