Horn Requirements

All departmental hearings will be fifteen minutes in length. If the entire department faculty is present at the senior recital, the senior jury may be waived.

Policy for all degree recitals at all levels:

  1. All recital programs must be approved by the major teacher and the department coordinator. If a student of the coordinator, the student must have recital program approved by an additional faculty member.
  2. Recital Outline
    1. undergraduate recital: 50-60 minutes of music; graduate recital: 50-60 minutes of music
    2. more than 2/3 of the recital must be performed by the original instrumental combination of the composer (non-transcription); a concerto with piano accompaniment is acceptable.
    3. the program must include at least one major sonata or concerto
    4. the following musical periods must be covered:
      1. either Baroque or Classical
      2. Romantic
      3. 20th century
      4. Contemporary: two 20th century works or two contemporary works may be performed in lieu of one of each.
    5. chamber music is optional, but if used, it may fulfill any of the above musical period requirements.

First Year

Technique

  • Concone Lyrical Studies
  • Kopprasch Sixty Selected Studies
  • Maxime-Alphonse Forty Etudes (Vol. III)
  • Mueller 34 Studies, Op. 64

Repertoire

  • Beethoven Sonata, Op. 17
  • Corelli-Solodoview Sonata in F Major, Sonata in G Minor
  • Bernard Heiden Sonata for Horn and Piano
  • Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 in Eb (K.447) Kling Edition
  • Franz Strauss Concerto

Skills

  • Sightreading and transposition in E flat, D, C, and B flat basso.
  • Scales — major and all forms of minor scales through four sharps and flats.

Departmental Examination

Based on the above materials as described in the complete list of official requirements to be obtained from the instructor.

Second Year

Technique

  • Kling Forty Studies
  • Gallay Twelve Etudes for Second Horn, Op. 57
  • Maxime-Alphonse Twenty Studies (Vol. IV)

Repertoire

  • Bach Cello Suites (Wendell Hoss)
  • Haydn Concerto #2
  • Hindemith Horn Sonata (1939)
  • Mozart Horn Concerto No. 1 in D (K.412) Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb (K.417) (Both Kling Editions)
  • Saint-Saens Concertpiece, Op. 94
  • Orchestral Excerpts

Skills

  • Sightreading and transposition in E, H (B flat), and alto keys of G, A, and A flat.
  • Scales — all major and minor scales

Departmental Examination

Based on the above materials as described in the complete course of study from the instructor.

Third Year

Technique

  • Gallay Twelve Grand Caprices, Op. 32
  • Maxime-Alphonse Twenty Etudes (Vol. V)
  • Gallay Unmeasured Preludes

Repertoire

  • Dukas Villanelle
  • Haydn Horn Concerto No. 2 in D
  • Hindemith Horn Concerto (1950)
  • Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 in Eb (K.495) Kling Edition
  • R. Strauss Concerto #1, Op. 11
  • Orchestral Excerpts

Skills

  • Sightreading and transposition from appropriate orchestral excerpts.
  • Selected material demonstrating the technique of lip trill, double and triple tonguing, and hand stopping.

Departmental Examination

Based on the above materials as described in the complete course of study from the instructor.

Fourth Year

Technique

  • Gallay Twelve Grand Etudes Brillantes, Op. 43
  • Marcel Bitsch Twelve Etudes for Horn
  • Verne Reynolds Forty-Eight Etudes

Repertoire

  • Brahms Horn Trio in Eb, Op. 40
  • Britten Serenade for Tenor Horn & Strings, Op. 31
  • Hindemith Altohorn Sonata
  • Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
  • Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2, (1943)
  • Orchestral Excerpts

Departmental Examination

Undergraduate recital, 50 — 60 minutes of music.

 

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