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		Tabuteau's "Drives"; Vibrato; Tenor Clef	Mahler, Symphony 1, mvt. 1.
2	Various		Double tonguing, slurring downward	Beach, Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet
3	USA	Sacred Harp	Mixed Divisions of 2 and 3	Reicha, Quintet in Eb; Brahms, Symphony 1
4	Mexico		Sprints with Mixed Tonguing	Ponce, Chapultepec;  Brahms, Violin Concerto, 2nd Mov.
5	Brazil		Alternate F#2, Syncopations with 16th and 8th Notes	Wagner, Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg Overture
6	USA and Canada	Spirituals	Rubato Drives	Ewell, "Adam" from Paradise Lost
7	Various	Advent & Christmas	Monotones for Phrasing	Handel, Messiah, Halleluyah Chorus
8	Various		Articulation Sprints	Beach, Gaelic Symphony; Dukas, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
9	USA	Cowboy Songs	Up Tempo Melodies, Off Beats	Mozart, Bassoon Concerto, 2nd Mov.; Beethoven, Violin Concerto
10	USA	Folk Songs	2-5 Articulation, 5/4 Meter	Vivaldi, A Minor Concerto, RV 497; Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever
11	Various		Trill Components	Beethoven, 1st Symphony, 4th mov.; Bizet, Carmen, Entr'acte
12	Argentina		Divisions of 2 and 3	Gomes, Ao Ceará livre!; Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No.1, IV.
13	USA	Tin Pan Alley	Beat Displacement, Monotones	Beethoven, 1st Symphony, 4th mov., Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20, 1st mov.; Sambucetti, Tarantella
14	Mexico		Articulation Sprints, Showing Groupings of 2 and 3	Beethoven, 4th Symphony, 4th mov.; Ramírez Santillán, Concierto a Dios
15	Various		End-Beginning Practice Method, 32nds in Rhythms	Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Dance of the Yao People
16	Cuba		More End-Beginning Practicing, 32nds in Rhythms	Beethoven, 1st Symphony, 4th mov., Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Beach, Gaelic Symphony, 3rd Mov., Mozart, Symphony 41
17	Brazil		Long and Short Beat Markings, Musical Motion Using Articulation	Beethoven, 4th Symphony, 4th mov.; Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
18	USA and Canada		5 2 4 2 Articulation	Vivaldi, A Minor Concerto, RV 497; Weber, Der Freischütz; Coleridge-Taylor, Variations on an African Air
19	Peru		More Music with Tenor Clef	Alzedo, Missa de Requiem; Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
20	Various		Performance Suggestions for the “New World" Symphony	Dvořák, New World Symphony