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  Jeff Garza, Horn

Level 6
​collegiate


Collegiate level students are serious university level players in top ensembles or highly skilled amateurs. These students playing are often planning to earn a music performance minor degree or double majoring. They may be considering post-graduate music study and doing some professional gigs.

Etudes

  • Barboteau: Lectures/Exercises (41-60)
  • Belloli: 8 Studies
  • DeGrave: Etudes
  • Kling: 40 Etudes​
  • Koetiser: 13 Etudes Caracteristiques
  • Schantl: Method for Valve Horn
  • Shoemaker: Legato Etudes
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 3
  • Mueller: 34 Etudes
  • Rochut: Melodious Etudes, Book 1
  • Thevet: 65 Sight Reading Exercises

Solos with Piano/Orchestra

  • Beethoven: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
  • Bernstein: Elegy for Mippy -- 🎵
  • ​Bozza: Chant Lointain -- 🎵
  • Boroff: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
  • Busser: Cantecor -- 🎵​
  • Brouwer: Sonata -- 🎵
  • Cherubini: Two Sonatas -- 🎵
  • Danzi: Sonata -- 🎵​
  • Gliere: Horn Concerto -- 🎵​
  • Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 2 -- 🎵
  • Hindemith: Sonata -- 🎵
  • Labor: Theme and Variations -- 🎵
  • Larsson: Concertino -- 🎵​
  • Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 -- 🎵​​
  • Rheinberger: Sonata -- 🎵
  • Saint-Saëns: Morceau de Concert​​​ -- 🎵
  • Sinigaglia: Two Pieces -- 🎵​​
  • Stevens: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
  • F. Strauss: Horn Concerto -- 🎵​
  • R. ​Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 -- 🎵
  • Vinter: Hunters Moon -- 🎵​
  • Wilder: Sonata No. 3 -- 🎵

Unaccompanied Solos
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  • Amram: Blues and Variations for Monk​​ -- 🎵
  • Buyanovsky: Traveling Impressions -- 🎵
  • Ketting: Intrada -- 🎵
  • Lyon: Partita -- 🎵
  • Persichetti: Parable -- 🎵​

Orchestral Excerpts

  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto
  • Beethoven: Symphony 3 and 5
  • ​Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 and 2
  • Brahms: Haydn Variations
  • Brahms: Serenade No. 1 and 2
  • Dvorak: Cello Concerto
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 and 8
  • Holst: The Planets
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne
  • Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
  • Puccini: Tosca, Act III - Prelude
  • Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture
  • Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
  • Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3
  • Shostakovich: Cello Concerto
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 and 10
  • Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
  • Strauss: Don Juan
  • Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
  • Stravinsky: Firebird
  • Thomas: Mignon, Overture
  • Wagner: Rheingold, Prelude
  • Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
  • Williams: Jurassic Park, Theme
  • Williams: Star Wars, Suite


Chamber

  • Beethoven: Septet
  • Brahms: Horn Trio​
  • Nielsen: Wind Quintet
  • Schubert: Auf dem Strom
  • Schubert: Octet

Objectives

  • Average 8 hours weekly practice/study
  • Transposition in G, D and A, B-flat
  • Bass clef proficiency
  • Multiple tonguing proficiency
  • Stopped horn proficiency
  • Good efficiency/endurance skills
  • Collaborative chamber skills (small ensemble and piano)
  • Fluency in low and middle register

Promotion

  • G1 to C6
  • Scales: Major (2 Octaves)​
  • Proficiency in bass clef and stopped horn
  • Sight reading​

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