MUSA 241/310, 242/311

2 credits: full hour lesson - for sophomore Music Education, Sound Recording Technology, Composition majors and Music minors only. Requires one student recital (SPH) performance. 241/310 and 242/311 jury consists of two solos with piano or major unaccompanied solo, possible playing by ear.

MUSA 251, 252

3 credits: full hour lesson - for sophomore Performance majors only. Requires two student recital (SPH) performances. 251 jury consists of two solos, one by memory, with piano or major unaccompanied solo, playing by ear.

No jury for 252; a recital approval performance and half-hour recital is required.

Review fundamentals with emphasis on any deficiencies. Advanced flexibility exercises, continue multiple tonguing. Intermediate materials for clefs, articulation, range, velocity, F-attachment/fourth valve, jazz styles.

TENOR TROMBONE

METHODS
Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method
Vining Daily Routines

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Marsteller Basic Routines
Remington Warm-up Exercises  

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni-SchwartzVocalises Vols.1,2
Fink Studies in Legato

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book B
Tyrrell 40 Progressive Studies (bass or tenor clef)
Cimera 79 Progressive Studies
Hering 40 Progressive Etudes
Gregoriev 78 Studies
Pederson Intermediate Etudes

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

F-ATTACHMENT STUDIES
Fink Introducing the F-Attachment
Fink Studies in Legato for Bass Trombone, Tuba
Blume 36 Studies for Trombone with F-Attachment
Ostrander The F-Attachment & Bass Trombone
Gillis 70 Progressive Studies

JAZZ STUDIES
Lipsius Reading Key Jazz Rhythms
Playing simple melodies by ear and memory, in most keys, on trombone and piano.

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Barat Andante et Allegro
Barat Piece in Mi Bemol
Boda Sonatina
Dubois, P.M. Cortege
Grafe Grand Concerto
Guilmant Morceau Symphonique
Nelhybel Suite
Pryor Annie Laurie
Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto
Rousseau Piece Concertante
Saint-Saëns Cavatine, Op 144

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS

  1. Rossini La Gazza Ladra Overture
  2. Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
  3. Brahms Symphony No.1
  4. Wagner Tannhaüser Overture
  5. Stravinsky Petrouchka
  6. Verdi La Forza del Destino Overture
  7. Copland Appalachain Spring
  8. Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
  9. Schubert Symphony No.9 (Great C Major)
  10. Mahler Symphony No.1

TECHNIQUE
Mueller Technical Studies, Vols.1&2

EUPHONIUM

METHODS
Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method
Guggenberger Basics Plus

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Pilafian/Sheridan The Brass Gym
Remington Warm-up Exercises

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni-SchwartzVocalises Vols.1,2

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Blume 36 Studies for Trombone with F-Attachment
Clarke Technical Studies
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book B
Mead New Concert Studies for Euphonium, Vol.2
Tyrrell 40 Progressive Studies (bass or tenor clef)

CLEF STUDIES
Blazhevich Studies in Clefs

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Clarke Carnival of Venice
Cord Concert Fantasie
Corwell Night Song
Falcone Mazurka
George Sonata
Handel/laFosse Concerto in F Minor
Israel Dance Suite
Jones Dialogues
Klengel/Falcone Concertino No.1 in B-flat
Pryor Any of the solos
Ravel Piece en Forme de Habanera
Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto
Saint-Saëns Cavatine, Op.144
Saint-Saëns/Falcone The Swan
Senaille Allegro Spiritoso
Shepherd Nocturne and Rondolette
Spears Rondo Capriccioso
Telemann Sonata in f Minor

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

TECHNIQUE
Mueller Technical Studies, Vols.1&2
Salvo 241 Double and Triple Tonguing Exercises 
Hall Technique Exam