Etudes
Solos
Objectives
Promotion
- 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