MUSA 441, 442

2 credits: full hour lesson - for senior Music Education, Sound Recording Technology, Composition majors and Music minors only. Requires one student recital (SPH) performance each semester unless recital approval or recital is performed. 441 and 442 jury consists of two solos, with piano or major unaccompanied solo, possible playing by ear. 442 may be repeated to prepare senior recital.

Music Education majors may give a recital approval performance and half-hour (senior) recital during 441 when student teaching is scheduled for the next semester. Otherwise this is accomplished during 442. (SPH) requirements are waived during the recital semester.

MUSA 451, 452

3 credits: full hour lesson - for senior Performance majors only. 451 requires two student recital (SPH) performances. 451 jury consists of two solos, one by memory, with piano or major unaccompanied solo, possible playing by ear.

No jury for 452; a recital approval performance and full hour (senior) recital is required, including one piece by memory.

Graduating level for performance majors, advanced for all others. Further emphasis on clef reading, difficult etudes, solo and chamber literature, orchestral studies. Specialization in jazz (ear playing and improvisation) may be appropriate. Solidify extreme ranges. Solidify complete command of the instrument by completing studies and technique from previous term but the real emphasis should be on degree recital, literature, style, and advanced technique.

TENOR TROMBONE

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Hall Daily Routine with compact disc
Marsteller Basic Routines
Remington Warm-up Exercises
Vining Daily Routines for Trombone

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni/Schwartz Vocalises Vols.4,5,6
Bach Cello Suites
Couilland Etudes de Style
Busser 12 Etudes Melodiques

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book C-D
Bitsch 15 Etudes du Rhythme
Boutry Douze Etudes de Haut Perfectionnement
Kopprasch 60 Studies
Lin Lip Flexibilities for All Brass Instruments
Pichareau 21 Studies of General Technique Pederson Advanced Etudes
Marsteller Advanced Slide Technique
Marsteller 6 Etudes
Masson 12 Etudes Variees
Maxted 20 Studies
Senon 25 Etudes Rythmo-Techniques
Vining Daily Routines for Trombone

CLEF STUDIES
Blazhevich Studies in Clefs and 26 Sequences
Uber 21 Etudes in Bass & Alto Clef
Kahila Advanced Etudes in Tenor & Alto Clef

F-ATTACHMENT STUDIES
Bordogni/Schwartz Vocalises (8vb)
Delgiudice 12 Etudes Rhythmiques et Melodiques
Various studies for tuba and French tuba.

JAZZ STUDIES
Wilson/Viola Chord Studies for Trombone
Baker, D. Jazz Styles and Analysis
Reeves Creative Jazz Improvisation
Coker Patterns for Jazz
Learning standard tunes as assigned, required reading as assigned, jazz theory.

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Complete literature from 300's if deemed necessary.
Albrechtsberger Concerto
Berio Sequenza V
Bloch Symphony
Bonneau Fantasie Concertante
Bozza Hommage a Bach
Childs Sonata
Creston Fantasy
David Concertino
Druckman Animus I
Ewazen Sonata
Goldstein Colloquy
Grondahl Concerto
Handel-Marsteller Concerto in F Minor
Krenek Five Pieces
Martin Ballade
McKay Sonata
Milhaud Concertino d'Hiver
Mozart, L. Concerto
Pryor Blue Bells of Scotland
Ross Cryptical Triptych
Sanders Sonata in E-flat
Serly Concerto
Serocki Concerto
Serocki Sonatina
Stevens, John Sonata
Stevens, Halsey Sonata
Sulek Sonata
Vivaldi/Brown 6 Sonatas
Mahler/Ostrander Solo from Third Symphony
Wagenseil Konzert

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS

  1. Mahler Symphony No.3
  2. Brahms Symphony No.4
  3. Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
  4. Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
  5. Ravel L'Enfante et les Sortileges
  6. Milhaud La Creation du Monde
  7. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodie No.2
  8. Dvorák Symphony No.8
  9. Bruckner Symphony No.4
  10. Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6
  11. Hindemith Mathis der Maler
  12. Schumann Symphony No.3
  13. Beethoven Symphony No.9
  14. Rossini William Tell Overture
  15. Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries
  16. Brahms Tragic Overture
  17. Holst The Planets
  18. Sibelius Symphony No.2
  19. Mendelssohn Symphony No.5
  20. Mahler Symphony No.2

SPECIAL ENSEMBLE LITERATURE
Poulenc Sonata (Trio)
Arnold Quintet
Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat
Campo Commedie
Kellaway Esque
Persichetti Serenade
Beethoven 3 Equali
Kroeger Toccata
Ewald Quintets

EUPHONIUM

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Hall Daily Routine with compact disc Pilafian/Sheridan The Brass Gym
Remington Warm-up Exercises

LEGATO STUDIES
Bordogni/SchwartzVocalises Vols.4,5,6
Couilland Etudes de Style

STUDIES FOR GENERAL TECHNIQUE
Various studies for tuba and French tuba. Arban/Alessi/Bowman Method
Bitsch 15 Etudes du Rhythme
Boutry Douze Etudes de Haut Perfectionnement
Charlier 32 Etudes de Perfectionneme
Guggenberger Basics Plus
Lafosse School of Sightreading & Style, Book C-D
Lin Lip Flexibilities for All Brass Instruments
Kopprasch 60 Studies
Masson 12 Etudes Variees
Senon 25 Etudes Rythmo-Techniques
Uber Twenty-two Etudes
Vizutti 20 Dances for Euphonium

CLEF STUDIES
Blazhevich Studies in Clefs and 26 Sequences
Uber 30 Etudes in Bass & Tenor Clef

JAZZ STUDIES
Lipsius Reading Key Jazz Rhythms
Wilson/Viola Chord Studies for Trombone
Snidero Jazz Conception

REPRESENTATIVE SOLO MATERIAL
Complete literature from 300's if deemed necessary.
Bach Cello Suites
Boccolari Fantasia di ConcertoBourgeois
Bourgeois Concerto for Trombone
Bowen Euphonium Music
Bozza Hommage a Bach
Butterworth Partita
Censu As Wonderful Things Drift By
Corwell Odyssey
Curnow Symphonic Variants
Ewazen Concerto
Gillingham Blue Lake Fantasies
Gillingham Vintage
Grondahl Concerto
Horovitz Concerto
Hoshina Fantasy for Euphonium and Piano
Hovhaness Symphony No.29
Jager Concerto for Euphonium
Lathan Eidolons
Mantia Auld Lang Syne
McKay Sonata
Mozart, W.A. Concerto for Bassoon K.191
Picchi/Mantia Fantasia Originale
Ponchielli Concerto per Flicorno Basso
Raum Faustbach
Richards Rangitoto
Rogers The Volunteer
Saint-Saëns Morceau de Concert
Spark Concerto
Spark Pantomime
Stevens, John Soliloquies
Sulek Sonata
Uber Sonata
Vivaldi/Brown Sonatas 1-6
Weber Concerto for Bassoon 
Wiggins Soliloquy No.9
Wilhelm Concertino for Euphonium

BAND/ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
Pendergast Practical Guide to Wind Band Excerpts for Euphonium
Shifrin The Professional's Handbook of Orchestral Excerpts for Euphonium and Bass Trumpet
Janecek Sinfonietta
Mahler Symphony #7
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Strauss Tone Poems (Tenor Tuba parts)
Wagner Operas (Bass Trumpet parts)