Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon

Techniques, Etudes, Melodies, and Excerpts from the Americas and Beyond

Lesson Number (select link)	Country of Melodies	Genre of Melodies	Techniques or Concepts	Excerpts (Various Countries)
1	Various		New Notes C3, D3, E3, F3; Slurs and Tonguing	Tchaikovsky, Symphony 4, 2nd mov.
2	USA	Shaker Music	New Notes G2, A2, B2; Accents	Bizet, Symphony in C
3	USA		Notes and Rests, Breaths, New Note F2	Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
4	Various		Rhythms and Melodies with Eighth Notes, New Note Bb2	Tchaikovsky, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
5	Mexico		Starting Notes with the Tongue, Ending with the Air; New Notes Eb3 and F#2	Sousa, Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
6	USA and Canada		Stopping with Breath and Tongue, New Notes F#3 and 3, G3	Strauss, Jr., Kaiser-Walzer
7	Various		5-Drive with Dynamics; Marcato	Sibelius, Symphony 7
8	Mexico		Flick keys, New Notes A3, Bb3, B3, C4, D4	Strauss, Jr., Kaiser-Walzer
9	Various	Advent & Christmas	Flicking for Large Leaps	Bach, Christmas Oratorio, No. 36
10	USA	Spirituals	New Notes Ab2 and 3, Db3 and 4	Sousa, Hands Across the Sea, Tchaikovsky, Symphony 2
11	Various		Dotted Eighth with Sixteenth Notes	Mahler, Symphony 1, III,  Tchaikovsky, Symphony  2
12	USA	Native American	Major Scales and Pentatonic Scales	Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz; Mahler,  Symphony 1, II.
13	Mexico		Chromatic Scale	Puerner, Cuban Serenade
14	USA	Spirituals	Tongue Position for Intonation	Mozart, Divertimento No. 3, K. 166; Beethoven Symphony 5
15	USA	Cowboy Songs	Tongue Position for Intonation	Price, "The Oak"
16	Various		Arpeggios, Sixteenth Note Rhythms	Gershwin, "American in Paris"
17	Various		Articulation Drive, Staccato Length (3) Given by Weissenborn	Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
18	USA	Hymns	Improvisation on a Pentatonic Scale, Fluid Technique with Eighth Notes	Tchaikovsky Symphony 4
19	Argentina		Mastering notes up to D4	Beethoven, Symphony 6
20	Peru		Further Work with Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes	Tchaikovsky Symphony 4, III.