Pre-college are serious high school students or casual college level players. These students are often principal players in youth orchestra and have qualified for All-State band or orchestra. Pre-college take regular lessons from a skilled performing teacher. These students may be considering pursuing a music degree.
LEVEL 5 FUNDAMENTALS - PDF
LEVEL 5 FUNDAMENTALS - PDF
Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
Unaccompanied Solos
Orchestral Excerpts
Objectives
Promotion
- Barboteau: Lectures/Exercises (21-40)
- Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (No. 31-60)
- Gallay: 22 Studies, op. 58
- Kaucký: Short Studies
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 2 (21-40)
- Schantl: 120 Lyrical Studies (61-120)
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
- Chabrier: Larghetto -- 🎵
- Fauré/Procter - Five Songs -- 🎵
- Francaix: Canon in Octave -- 🎵
- Frackenpohl: Largo and Allegro -- 🎵
- Gliere: Four Lyrical Pieces -- 🎵
- Koetsier: Romanza -- 🎵
- Lefebvre: Romance, Op. 30 -- 🎵
- Mortelmans: Lyrische Pastorale -- 🎵
- Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 -- 🎵
- Nielsen: Canto Serioso -- 🎵
- Ravel/Jones: Pavane -- 🎵
- Reinecke: Nocturne -- 🎵
- Ries: Sonata -- 🎵
- Saint-Saens: Romance, Op. 67 -- 🎵
- R. Strauss: Andante -- 🎵
Unaccompanied Solos
- Agrell: Solo Concertino -- 🎵
- Arnold: Fantasy -- 🎵
- Kroll: Laudatio -- 🎵
- Madsen: Dream of the Rhinoceros -- 🎵
Orchestral Excerpts
- Beethoven: Fidelio, Overture
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
- Bellini: I Capuletti e i Montechhi, Act I - Juliet's Aria
- Bellini: I Puritani, Act II - Duet
- Bizet: Carmen, Act III - Micaëla’s Aria
- Bizet: L’Arlesienne, Suite
- Borodin: Symphony No. 2
- Brahms: Symphony No. 1
- Brahms: Symphony No. 3
- De Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
- Holst: The Planets
- Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, Prelude
- Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
- Rossini: William Tell, Overture
- Schubert: Symphony No. 9
- J. Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, Waltz
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony 2
- Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture
- Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, Overture
- Weber: Oberon, Overture
Objectives
- Average 7 hours weekly practice/study
- Introduction to stopped horn
- Multiple tonguing
- Transposition in E-flat and E, C
- Attend live performances
- Explore techniques for managing performance anxiety
- Introduction to Orchestral Repertoire
Promotion
- Bb 2 to Bb 5
- Scales: Major, chromatic scales (2 octaves)
- Lip Trills: Kopprasch
- Rudimentary ability to read bass clef and transpose