MUSA 141, 142

2 credits: full hour lesson - for freshman Music Education, Sound Recording Technology, Composition majors and Music minors only. 141 jury is limited to demonstration of technique. 142 requires one student recital (SPH) performance. 142 jury consists of two solos with piano or major unaccompanied solo, possibly playing by ear.

 

MUSA 151, 152

3 credits: full hour lesson - for freshmen Performance majors only. 151 jury is limited to demonstration of technique. 152 requires two student recital performances. 152 jury consists of two solos, one by memory, with piano or major unaccompanied solo, possible playing by ear.

 All students must be able to perform all major scales one octave, up and down, in eighth notes at quarter = 120, from memory, before they will be allowed to enter the program at this level.

Studies in tone control, breathing, flexibility, articulation, range, clefs, F-attachment/fourth valve if appropriate. Remedial concentration if indicated. Begin multiple tonguing. Begin jazz style reading. Begin playing by ear.

TENOR TROMBONE

METHODS
Vining Daily Routines for Trombone
Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Remington Warm-up Exercises
Vining Daily Routines for Trombone

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni-Schwartz Vocalises Vol.1
Fink Studies in Legato

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Davies 20 Etudes in Changing Meters
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book A
Slama/Brown 66 Etudes in All Keys
Tyrrell 40 Progressive Studies
Voxman Selected Studies

CLEF STUDIES
Fink Introducing Alto Clef (and tenor if not completed)
Edwards Before Blazhevich
Blazhevich Studies in Clefs

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Bernstein Elegy for Mippy II
Corelli/Gibson Sonata in D Minor
Corelli/Ostrander Sonata in Minor
Dubois, T. Concert Piece in A-flat Major
Marcello/Hall Sonatas 1-6
Morel Piece in F Minor
Nux, de la Concertpiece
Porret Six Esquisses
Rachmaninoff/Smith Vocalise, Op.34, No.14
Ropartz Andante et Allegro
Tanner Aria
Vaughn Williams Six Studies in English Folksong

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS

  1. Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
  2. Mozart Requiem: Tuba mirum solo
  3. Berlioz Hungarian March
  4. Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3
  5. Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
  6. Copland Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo
  7. Stravinsky Pulcinella
  8. Dvorák Symphony No.9 (New World)
  9. Brahms Symphony No.3
  10. Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5

TECHNIQUE
Mueller Technical Studies, Vol.1
Salvo 241 Double and Triple Tonguing Exercises Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method (selections)
Marsteller Basic Routines Part 1 (mm72 or greater)
Schlossberg Daily Drills & Technical Studies
Hall Technique Exam

EUPHONIUM

METHODS
Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method
Guggenberger Basics Plus
Vining Daily Routines for Euphonium

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Remington Warm-up Exercises
Vining Daily Routines for Euphonium

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni-Schwartz Vocalises Vol.1
Fink Studies in Legato

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Davies 20 Etudes in Changing Meters
Fink From Treble Clef to Bass Clef Baritone
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book A
Mead New Concert Studies for Euphonium, Vol.1
Slama/Brown 66 Etudes in All Keys
Tyrrell 40 Progressive Studies
Voxman Selected Studies

CLEF STUDIES
Fink Introducing Tenor Clef
Edwards Before Blazhevich
Blazhevich Studies in Clefs

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Barat Introduction and Dance
Barat Introduction and Serenade
Barat Andante et Allegro
Bellstedt Napoli
Capuzzi Andante and Rondo
Clarke Bride of the Waves
Clarke From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific
Curnow Rhapsody
DeLuca Beautiful Colorado
Galliard Sonatas 1-6
Guilmant Morceau Symphonique
Hutchison Sonatina
Marcello/Hall Sonatas 1-6
Morel Piece in F Minor
Nux, de la Concertpiece
Porret Six Esquisses
Rachmaninoff/Smith Vocalise, Op.34, No.14
Ropartz Andante et Allegro

BAND/ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
Pendergast Practical Guide to Wind Band Excerpts for Euphonium

TECHNIQUE
Mueller Technical Studies, Vol.1
Salvo 241 Double and Triple Tonguing Exercises Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method (selections)
Schlossberg Daily Drills & Technical Studies
Hall Technique Exam