Nonmusic majors, music majors on secondary instruments, graduate students not requiring graduate credit.

1 credit: half hour lesson. No jury is required.

 Fundamentals of tone production, embouchure development, breath support, and articulation.

 

TENOR TROMBONE

METHODS
Rubank Elementary Method
Rubank Intermediate Method
Pearson Standard of Excellence, Vols. 1,2,3

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Remington/Hunsberger Warm-up Exercises
Vining Daily Routines for the Young Trombonist

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Bordner First Book of Practical Studies
Voxman Selected Studies
Fink Studies in Legato

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Kinyon Breeze-Easy Recital Pieces
Arnold (ed.) Easy Trombone Solos
Benson Aubade
Marsteller Barbary Pirates
Marsteller Yesterday Afternoon
Mozart/Ernst Sonatina
Vaughn Williams Six Studies in English Folksong

Jazz: Now’s the Time, C Jam Blues, Blue Bossa, Summertime, I Can’t Get Started, Tune Up, Take the A Train, You Are Too Beautiful, Little Sunflower, So What, Autumn Leaves, Blue In Green, Freddie Freeloader, Song For My Father, Take Five, etc.

TECHNIQUE
All major scales, one octave in quarter notes (mm120)

EUPHONIUM

METHODS
Beeler Method for Baritone, Book 1
Rubank Intermediate Method
Pearson Standard of Excellence, Vols. 1,2,3

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Remington/Hunsberger Warm-up Exercises
Vining Daily Routines for the Student Euphonium Player

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Bordner First Book of Practical Studies
Voxman Selected Studies
Fink Studies in Legato

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Belwin Mills Classic Festival Solos
Campbell Master Solos
Davis Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann
Dowland/Fischer What if I Never Speed
Mozart/Ernst Sonatina
Phillips Eight Bel Canto Songs
Smith, H.C. Solos for the Baritone Player

TECHNIQUE
All major scales, one octave in quarter notes (mm120)