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Bassoon
First Year:
Technique:
Scales:
Major and minor (harmonic) to 4 sharps and flats.
Studies:
Weissenborn: Complete Bassoon Method
Milde: Scale Studies
Repertoire:
Any Baroque concerto or sonata
Departmental Examination:
Based on the above material.
Second Year:
Technique:
Scales:
All major, minor (harmonic, melodic), chromatic, and whole tone.
Arpeggios, major and minor.
Studies:
Kovar: 24 Daily Studies or Oubradous: Technical Exercises
Milde: Concert Studies Part I
Fundamentals of reed-making.
Repertoire:
Selected Paris Conservatory Concours Piece
Bach: Suites for Violoncello, Nos. 1,2, or 3
Weber: Concerto or Fantasy
Orchestral studies
Stadio: Difficult and Solo Passages for Bassoon
Departmental Examination:
Based on the above material.
Third Year:
Technique:
Scales:
All major, minor, chromatic, and whole tone. Major scales in 3rds (to 4 sharps and flats). Arpeggios, major, minor, and diminished seventh.
Studies:
Bozza: Etudes or Bianchi: Etudes
Reed-making, continued.
Repertoire:
Hindemith: Sonata for Bassoon
Mozart: Concerto (K.191)
Saint-Saens: Sonata
Orchestral Studies:
Continued
Departmental Examination:
Based on the above material.
Fourth Year:
Technique:
At the discretion of the instructor.
Repertoire:
One sonata and one concerto from the Baroque era.
Hummel: Concerto
Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
Bach: Viola da gamba sonatas
Etler: Sonata
Orchestral studies, continued
Departmental Examination:
Recital, 50-60 minutes (playing time).
