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		Drones, Long tone, 7-Drive with Dynamics	Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade
2	Various		Articulation 5-drive, Compound Time	Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, opening
3	USA	Shaker Music	Compound Time and Mixed Meter	Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, II; Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F
4	Argentina		Practice Methods: Components; Slow-Fast-Accurate	Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Overture
5	Guatemala		Counting Rests	Schumann, Symphony 3; Quiroz, Una escuela de muchachos
6	USA	Native American	Monotones for Practicing Phrasing	Dukas, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
7	Various	Advent & Christmas	Rhythmic and Melodic Studies in 6/8	Corelli, Weihnachtsmusik: Concerto grosso No. 8; Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248/2 Sinfonia
8	Mexico		Practice Method: Rhythms	Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, I
9	Venezuela		Rubato Drives	Villena, 3 Valses venezolanos de concierto, II
10	Mexico		Practicing Rubato with Articulation and Monotones	Respighi, Antiche danze et arie per liuto, Suite No. 2.
11	USA		Practice Method: Fragmentation-Concatenation	Sousa, Semper Fidelis March
12	Brazil		Sixteenth-Note Rhythms with and without Time Signatures	Santo e Oliveira, Responses for the Festivals
13	USA	Spirituals	Syncopation	Sousa, "El Capitan" March; Price, The Oak
14	Various		2-5 Articulation Patterns	Sousa, Washington Post March
15	Various		3-4-5 Articulation	Garcia, Sinfonia Fúnebre
16	Mexico		Triplets	Ponce, Estampas Nocturnas; Dukas, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
17	Suriname		Portamento length (4) given by Weissenborn, Subdivisions of 2 and 3	Strauss, Death and Transfiguration
18	Various		Grace Notes, Mixed Meter	Haydn, Smphony No. 85, Trio
19	USA	Hymns	Two Against Three	Mahler, Symphony No. 1, I
20	Cuba		Varied Articulations 3, 4, and 5	Mozart, Serenade No. 12, III