Etudes

• Concone: Vocalises
• Franz: Natural and Valve Horn Etudes from Complete Method
• Getchell: Practical Studies, Book 2

• Pottag: Preparatory Melodies
• Pottag-Hovey: Method, Book 2

• Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (1-30)
• Miersch: Melodious Studies

Solos

• Bacon: Selected Songs, Vol. 1
• Brahms/Jones: Scherzo from Serenade, Op. 11
• Beethoven/Poole: Andromeda​
• ​Effinger: Rondino

• Purcell/Jones: I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly

• Ployhar: The Hunt

Objectives

• Average 5 hours of weekly practice
• Gain performance experience in public settings
• Attend professional performances
• Practice routine with a metronome, tuner and drone
• Basic warm up
• Rudimentary phrasing
• Slurred and tongued articulation
• Discernible dynamic range from piano to forte
• F3 to G5
• Memorize all fingerings

Promotion

• Scales: Major (1 or 2 octaves - C, F, Bb, Eb, G, D, A)
• Buzzing: Exercise 1
• Flexibility: 1 octave + 5th, F horn harmonics
• Long Tones: Easy Flow
• Demonstrate staccato, tenuto and marcato articulation
• Proficiency on level appropriate etude and solo