Método:
Music
of the Americas for Bassoon
Techniques,
Etudes,
Melodies, and Excerpts from the Americas and Beyond
**Under
Construction--Beta Test Site**
| Lesson Number (select link) |
Country of Melodies | Genre of Melodies | Techniques or Concepts | Excerpts (Various Countries) |
| 1 | Brazil | New Notes up to C5, Tabuteau's "Drives" | Beethoven, Symphony 4, IV; Gomes, Lo Schiavo; Alvorada | |
| 2 | Mexico | Embouchure positions: parallel and offset; Bb transposition using tenor clef | Villa-Lobos, Chôros No. 3, Pica-Páo | |
| 3 | USA | Spirituals | Sprints, Transposition of Treble Clef | Beethoven, Symphony 4, IV; Stravinsky, The Firebird, Berceuse, Beethoven, Quintet |
| 4 | Argentina | Slow-Fast-Accurate | Beethoven, Symphony 4, IV; Gomes, Il Guarny, Sinfonia | |
| 5 | Cuba | Triple Tonguing | Strauss, Die Fledermaus Overture; Mozart Così fan tutte; Bach, BWV 155 | |
| 6 | Various | Pianissimo playing | Tchaikovsky, Symphony 6, I; Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture; Brahms Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky, Symphony 2, Stravinsky, Rite of Spring. | |
| 7 | Various | Advent & Christmas | Beat Displacement | Beethoven, Symphony 4, IV; Bach, Christmas Oratorio, No. 1 Coro. |
| 8 | USA | Bb Transposition Using Tenor Clef | | Beethoven, Symphony 4, IV; Sousa, The Liberty Bell March; Mendelssohn, Mid-Summer Night's Dream | |
| 9 | Mexico | Hard
Stop, Soft Stop: Tongue Diminuendo (Practice Technique) |
Ponce, Sonata for Violoncello, I; Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4, I. | |
| 10 | Argentina | Varied Articulation Lengths | Gomes, Joana de Flandres, Prelúdio. | |
| 11 | Various | Components: Trills, Fingerings, Articulation | Rossini, La Gazza Ladra; Da Silva, National Anthem, Brazil; Mozart, Quintet in Eb; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, V. | |
| 12 | Various | Rubato Applications | Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherezade; Maurice Ravel, Alborada del gracioso. Büsser, Récit et Thème varié | |
| 13 | Cuba | Divisions
of 3, 4, and 6 |
Strauss, Don Quixote; Handel, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day | |
| 14 | Venezuela/France | Varied Divisions | Hahn, Quintette; Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore, Romanza | |
| 15 | Various | High Register Fluency | Jose Rene Moreno, Mi Viejo Santa Cruz; Teresa Carreño, Streichquartett in h-Moll | |
| 16 | Mexico | Down Slurs | Poulenc, Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon; Ponce, Sonata for Violoncello, I.; Manookian, Aires de Yucatán | |
| 17 | Various | Turnarounds | Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique; Carlos Gomes, Joanna de Flandres | |
| 18 | USA | Rags, Ragtime | Fragmentation-Concatenation | Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony, 3rd Mov.; Beethoven 4, 4th mov.; Verdi, Requiem, Quid Sum Miser; Leshnoff, Double Concerto |
| 19 | Brazil | Monotone for Phrasing | Tchaikovsky,
Symphony No. 4, II. |
|
| 20 | Various | Cadenzas | Cadenzas for the Mozart Bassoon Concerto and other Music | W. A. Mozart, Symphony 41, IV; Ravel, Rhapsodie Espagnole |
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