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Recommended Course of Study for Bassoon


Videos by Terry B. Ewell, sequential listing: Videos 1-100 | Videos 101-200 | Videos 201-300 | Videos 301-

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Topical Listing

Topical Listing (W = Weissenborn Study):

Accents (varied types, W23)
Appoggiaturas (W38, Mozart 4)
Articulation and note lengths (W5, 7,
30, 35A, 36, 37, 43)
Articulation Experiments
Articulation, adding slurs in music (Mozart 3)
Arts Administration
Avoiding Injury (W9, 10, 11)
Bach, J. S. compositions,
Baroque Music Resources
Beat (metric) displacement (W18, 22)
Bocals for high register (W50A)
Brahms German Requiem
Breathing (2nd Lesson, part 2)
Breathing, rapid (W3, 7, 31)
Breaths, where to breathe (W5, 9, 20, 33)
Breaths, double breath sign (W20)
C#3 (10th Lesson)
Cadenzas (also Mozart 6, 7, 8)
Chamber Music
Climaxes, musical goals (W38)
Circular Breathing
Colossians 3:16 psalms, hymns, spiritual songs
Competition, healthy attitude (W25)
Counting Rests
Devotionals
Double Tonguing
Drones (W1, 8, 28, 32)
Eingangen (Mozart 5)
Embouchure positions (W34, 50A, 8th Lesson, part 2)
Endurance (Weekend Warrior Lecture)
Ensemble Games
Equipment and Accessories
Excerpts
Fermata and Caesura (W4)
Fingering Technique
Five components for sound production (W28, 30)
Flick keys, venting keys (W3, 4, 13, 6th Lesson)
Handel's Messiah
High register fingerings (W48, 49, 50A)
Increased air for articulation (W2)
Jaw motion (W3) 
Jacob 4 Sketches
Lectures (from College Courses)
Metronome (W22) 
Milde, Three Easy Pieces
Missing Notes (Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, Part 2 )
Monotones (W41)

Mordents (W21A)
Mozart Bassoon Concerto
Octaves, rapid playing (W25)
Online Music Lessons
Orchestral Excerpts
Orefici Music and Other Items
Ornamentation (also Mozart 4 and 5)
Perfection vs. excellent (W27)
Performances
Phrasing (W35B, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41,
43, 47)
Playing on the wind (W6, 7, 13, 29)
Posture (1st lesson, part 2 ,2nd Lesson)
Practice Strategy (W8)
Practice tool summary (W21B)
Reed Doctor
Reed Finishing
Reed finishing for high register (W49)
Reed Making
Reviews of Elementary Studies
Rinsforzando (W12, 35A)
Romantic Period Music (see Weissenborn, Two Pieces)
Rubato (W39)
Satzenhofer Music
Slur, downard (W26)
Solo Literature
Sprints (W8, 11, 16, 24, 31)
Starting Bassoon & Bassoon
Lessons
Study Advice
Subdivision, divisions (W4, 6, 32, 46)
Symbol: alternate fingering (W4)
Tactus and Tempo (Mozart 9)
Technology
Telemann
Timbre, matching (W45)
Tonguing, light (W33)
Tongued stops, hard and soft (8th Lesson, part 1)
Translations
Triple Tonguing (bottom of web page)
Tuners (W32)
Tuning (W28, 29)
Tutti Sections (Mozart 2)
Urtext Editions (Mozart 1)
Vibrato (Introduction-Mozart 14, Mechanisms-Mozart  15, Developing-Mozart  16, Application-Mozart 17; W35A, 35B)
Voicing, vowels (9th Lesson)
Weekend Warrior
Weissenborn 50 Studies, and Other Items


Articulation

Link to articulation videos

Arts Administration (Presentation given at MasterWorks Festival, 03 July 07)
J. S. Bach and Bach in Baltimore

Link to videos on Bach and Bach in Baltimore

Baroque Performance Practice
See the Baroque Music Resources

Chamber Music

  • Performing in a Wind Quintet (10 min., 2012, BDP #81)
  • Playing Bassoon in a Wind Quintet (11 min., 2012, BDP #82)
  • Nielsen Quintet, Variation 7 (4 min., 2012, BDP #83)
  • Playing Bassoon in a Wind Quintet (7 min., 2012, BDP #84)
  • Francis Poulenc—50 Years Later (1899-1963). (12 min., 2013, BDP 103) Towson University Department of Music showcase. Lecture by Carl Schmidt with sample performances by music faculty and staff, 12 March 2013. Excerpts from Suite française d'après Claude Gervaise FP 80, Vocalise FP 44, Petites Voix FP 83, Preiz pour paix FP 95, and Sextour FP 100.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Clarinetists (8 1/2 min.,BDP #160). James Logan, clarinet instructor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du roi Réne (The Chimney of King René), first movement, Cortége.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Oboists (10 min., BDP #161). Fatma Daglar, oboe instructor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du roi Réne (The Chimney of King René), first movement, Cortége. Removed 2020 July 09 as per Daglar's request.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Flutists (12 min., BDP #162). Sara Nichols, flute instructor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du roi Réne (The Chimney of King René), first movement, Cortége.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Piccolo Players (4 min., BDP #163). Sara Nichols, flute instructor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du roi Réne (The Chimney of King René), sixth movement, Chasse a Valabre.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Quintet and Bassoon Players (7 min., BDP #164). Dr. Terry B. Ewell, bassoon professor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du Roi René (The Chimney of King René), fifth movement, Joustes sur l'arc.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Quintet and Horn Players (9 min., BDP #177). Prof. Jason Ayoub, horn professor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du Roi René (The Chimney of King René), third movement.
  • Milhaud’s Suite for WW Quintet, Comments for Quintet and Horn Players (4 min., BDP #178). Prof. Jason Ayoub, horn professor at Towson University, provides performance and practice suggestions for Darius Milhaud’s La cheminée du Roi René (The Chimney of King René), fifth movement.

Chamber Music: Ensemble Games

Circular Breathing

Counting Rests
Devotionals (presented at the Masterworks Festival, Grace College, Winona Lake, IN)
See the Baroque Music Resources

    Performances and Interviews

Bach, J. S. Cantata 155, Aria, Du mußt glauben (5 min., 2020, BDP #291)

  • Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248-2 #15, Aria Frohe Hirten (Happy Shepherds)(5 min. BDP#297). Min Jin, Laurel and Terry Ewell.

Bliss, Philip (music) and Horatio Spafford (lyrics). "It is Well with My Soul." (5 min., 2020, BDP #292)

Jerusalem, Ignacious, Duo a N. S. de la Concepcion Asump., Guadalupe de la que es Reyna. (3 min., 2020, BDP #290)

"اِشکَفت (غار) " دوئت برای فلوت و فاگوت آهنگساز علیرضا متوسلی 

"The Cave" for Flute and Bassoon by Alireza Motevaseli Oforka, Grace. "Abù nke abù" (Tunes for the book of Song of Solomon). Performance by Laurel A. Ewell and Terry B. Ewell. (7. min., 2021, DBP #336)

Oforka, Grace. "Aklunon Kou Noun Bla wou Miton" (Lord Have Mercy). Performance by Terry B. Ewell, bassoon. Music inspired from the Fonbe tribe living in Republique du Benin (West Africa). (4 min., 2021, BDP #318).
Oforka, Grace. "Chima Obi'm" (God Knows My Heart). Performed by Laurel A. Ewell, flute, and Grace Oforka, voice. Music in Igbo and English languages. (7 min., 2020, BDP #295)
Oforka, Grace. "Oluwatunmise" (God has Redeemed Me). Terry B. Ewell, Bassoon. (4 min., 2021, BDP #316)
 Ozi, Étienne, Duo 2, Siciliano. (4 1/2 min., 2021, BDP # 310) Performance with Terry B. Ewell (USA) and Alireza Motevaseli (Iran).
 Ozi, Étienne, Duo 2, Finale. (3 1/2 min., 2021, BDP # 311) Performance with Terry B. Ewell (USA) and Alireza Motevaseli (Iran).
 Pascuzzi, Gregory. "Diaspora Duet." (3 1/2 min, 2020, BDP #296)

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