Trumpet 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

• Arban
• Clarke
• Concone
• Getchell
• Hering
• Schlossberg
• Small Scales

Repertoire

• Haydn Concerto
• Hindemith Sonata
• Hummel Concerto

Departmental Examinatio:

The student will perform technical exercises, major and minor scales through four sharps and flats, and repertoire deemed appropriate by the instructor.

Second Year

Technique

• Bousquet
• Charlier
• Scales — fluency in all major and minor scales in patterns and articulations as requested by the teacher.

Repertoire

• Peeters Sonata
• Stevens Sonata
• Solo compositions — of moderate difficulty that contain both lyrical passages and passages that require technical agility.

Skills

Transposition — orchestral excerpts involving transposition.

Departmental Examination

Based on the above materials, including all major and minor scales.

Third Year

Technique

• Bitsch Etudes
• Brandt
• Scales — same as second year but of greater difficulty.

Repertoire

• Kennan Sonata
• Solo compositions — same as second year but of greater difficulty.

Skills

Transposition — same as second year but of greater difficulty.

Departmental Examination

Based on the above materials.

Fourth Year

Technique

• Reynolds Etudes
• Smith Top Tones
• A continuation of scale work at the discretion of the instructor.

Repertoire

• Davies
• Jolivet
• Tomasi
• Orchestral Excerpts

Skills

Assignments at the discretion of the instructor.

Departmental Examination

Recital, 50 — 60 minutes of music.