Foundations for Superior Performance

Foundations for Superior Performance
Author: Richard S. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN:

"Foundations for Superior Performance" is designed to help structure the daily rehearsal and advance the performance level of the ensemble. The primary goal is to offer a framework of exercises and routine drills that will facilitate the mastery of essential playing fundamentals. Different skill levels have been integrated into this book to meet the needs of the inexperienced player, and, at the same time, challenge the most advanced.

The Art of French Horn Playing

The Art of French Horn Playing
Author: Philip Farkas
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1999-10-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457400094

First to be published in the series was The Art of French Horn Playing by Philip Farkas, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at Indiana University. In 1956, when Summy-Birchard published Farkas's book, he was a solo horn player for the Chicago Symphony and had held similar positions with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Kansas City Conservatory, DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. The Art of French Horn Playing set the pattern, and other books in the series soon followed, offering help to students in learning to master their instruments and achieve their goals.

Playing Descant and Triple Horns

Playing Descant and Triple Horns
Author: John Ericson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781079400366

A practical introduction to descant and triple horns, tools available to the modern hornist for more secure high range performance. This volume covers many topics related to these instruments including fingerings, mouthpiece choices, and music to study and perform, while also touching on the history of the instruments. This second edition includes expanded coverage related to high range production along with tips and excerpts from important solos and orchestral works.

French Horn Fingering Chart: 45 Colorful Pictures for Beginners

French Horn Fingering Chart: 45 Colorful Pictures for Beginners
Author: Helen Winter
Publisher: Helen Winter
Total Pages: 51
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This book aims to help beginners play the French horn. The book includes 45 diagrams with fingering positions and staff notation for 3 different types of French horns. The musical notes cover almost 6 octaves. The most basic type of French horn (because of its lightweight, easy playability, and low cost) is the single horn. Also, it is the most popular choice for beginning students. The main difference between single and double French horns is the number of valve slides per rotor. In general, single horns have one valve slide per rotor, while double horns have two. Two tubing sets make the double horn heavier and more complicated to use than the single French horn. These fingering charts are suitable for F and Bb single horns and F/Bb double horns. While the F single French horn has 3 buttons, both the F/Bb double French horn and the Bb single French horn have 4 buttons, the extra being for the thumb. The numbers of buttons that are colored are those that need to be pressed to play the given note. You can cut out the charts or use them directly from the booklet. The size of the cut-out is 6.5x10 inches (16x25 cm).

Trumpet Fingering Chart

Trumpet Fingering Chart
Author: Brenda Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780711969377

(Music Sales America). This fold-out chart features instrument care instructions, notation samples, photos and a diagram.

Cello Fingering Chart

Cello Fingering Chart
Author: David Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Cello
ISBN: 9781780385051

(Music Sales America). This chart includes advice on instrument care, notation guide and a photo/diagram of the instrument.

Tuning for Wind Instruments

Tuning for Wind Instruments
Author: Shelley Jagow
Publisher: Meredith Music Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Wind instruments
ISBN: 9781574632095

This book contains everything a music educator requires to approach fine-tuning intonation with their ensemble. This resource includes intonation charts for tracking personal progress, along with extensively researched color-coded fingering charts for every instrument providing pitch tendencies and suggestions for alternate fingerings.

A Complete Guide to Brass

A Complete Guide to Brass
Author: Scott Whitener
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780534509880

provides all the pedagogical, historical, and technical material necessary for the successful instruction of brass. Chapters discuss the historical development of individual brass instruments and focus on technique, including guidance for teachers and a complete method for brass playing. Individual instrument chapters include lists of recommended study material and reference sources. An audio CD of concert-hall recordings of all the exercises in the book is new to this edition. --from publisher description.

Student Instrumental Course: French Horn Student, Level Three

Student Instrumental Course: French Horn Student, Level Three
Author: James Ployhar
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780757903595

The Belwin Student Instrumental Course is a course for individual instruction and class instruction of like instruments, at three levels, for all band instruments. Each book is complete in itself, but all books are correlated with each other. Although each book can be used separately, all supplementary books should be used as companion books with the method.