Trombone Performance Syllabus
Andrew Janes, Trombones and Euphonium
BM-Trombone Performance: Middle Tennessee State University, 13
MM-Trombone Performance: University of Connecticut, 15
The purpose of the studio handbook/syllabus is to provide to students
with clear guidelines and instructions regarding required materials,
studio objectives, course design and policies, possible topics and
events, grades, curriculum, repertoire, and many more.
General Information
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Required Materials
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Professional Grade Instrument and Mouthpiece
Metronome
Tuner
Recording Device to Record Daily Practicing
Arban (Alessi/Bowman or Mantia): Complete Method for Trombone
Bordogni/Rochut Melodious Etudes for Trombone (Book 1)
Blazhevich Clef Studies (Tenor)
Vernon Singing Approach to Brass Playing (Bass)
Lesson Notebook/Studio Handbook
Students are required to legally obtain these materials within two
weeks of their assignment unless other arrangements are in place and
communicated to the professor. Cost of these materials and
accompanist fees for recitals are ongoing expenses which each student
must be prepared to meet throughout the duration of each term.
Students are responsible for the care and maintenance of their
instruments. Your instrument and its case should always be clean and
in excellent working condition. A well-prepared student will keep a
pencil, slide lube, valve lube, a spray bottle of water, a mouthpiece
brush, a mini screwdriver, and a small Allen wrench in his/her case. In
addition, students should be familiar with how to disassemble and
clean their instruments properly, which will be covered in a group
setting.
Objectives
1) Facilitate the development of each student to the highest level of
musical artistry that he/she is capable of/aspires to; and at least to
the minimal level appropriate to that students area of concentration.
2) Learn to perform in public with poise and confidence.
3) Gain knowledge and insight into pedagogical principles, appropriate
repertoire (i.e., etudes, solos, orchestral excerpts, jazz standards), and
teaching strategies relevant to the trombone and music in general.
In addition, this course will serve to combine and apply the knowledge
and skills being learned and developed in the theory, literature,
history, and education areas in order to prepare and perform music at
a professional level.
Course Design/Policies
Performance Projects
Final Juries
Recitals
Portfolios:
1) Personal Information Sheet (to be completed and updated yearly
and used on the Trombone Studio Website)
2) Current Photo (to be used on the Trombone Studio Website)
3) Current Curriculum Vitae and/or Resum
4) Current Biography
5) Up-to-date Repertoire Sheet (including solo, etude, chamber music
literature, etc.)
6) Lesson Notes
7) Audio/Video Recordings of Lessons
8) Programs of Performances
9) Audio/Video Recordings of Performance
Attendance
Make-up Lessons
Classroom Behavior
Letters of Recommendation
Disability Accommodation
Tips to Becoming a Legendary Student-Performer
Write down long-term and short-term goals, and consult them
regularly, measuring your progress and adjusting as is necessary.
Get together with your colleagues, (not just on your instrument!), and
play anything! Students with creative practice habits develop a
broader range of skills and musical awareness and tend to develop
more quickly and efficiently.
Practice hard, and demand excellence!
Be hungry for informationany and all.
Accept suggestions and critique with grace and open-mindedness.
Prepare diligentlyDO NOT CRAM. It doesnt work like that for us!
Listen to good music every day, and for classical music, have a score
as often as possible.
RECOMMENDED TROMBONE LITERATURE
The following list of trombone literature are primarily used for
beginning through intermediate players, though all the materials listed
can be used for intermediate to advanced players depending on what
the player is addressing during their practice session.
Beginning and Intermediate Studies
Blume:
Studies (36)
Bordner:
First Book of Practical Studies
Bordner:
Second Book of Practical Studies
Bordogni:
Melodious Etudes, Books 1-3
Fink:
Introduction to Legato
Fink:
Studies in Legato
Fink:
Introduction to Alto/Tenor Clef
Remington:
Warm-up Studies
Voxman:
Selected Studies
Beginning and Intermediate Solo Studies
Baker:
Master Solos (intermediate)
Belwin:
Master Solos for Trombone (all volumes)
Canadian Brass Book of Trombone Solos (all
volumes)
Classic Festival Solos for Tenor Trombone
Concert and Contest Collection
Clack:
First Repertoire Pieces
Pearson:
Standard of Excellence Trombone Solos (all volumes)
The methods and solos listed below are intended to serve as a
resource to personal exploration: the technical and expressive range of
these works vary from beginner to post-graduate/professional studies.
It is important for the student trombonist to familiarize him/herself
with as much of the available repertoire as possible in order to best
understand the expectations of the instrument in performance, as well
as discovering the depth of expression, technique, and individual
interpretation that is achievable in the study of the trombone.
Methods and Studies
Arban:
Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium, ed.
Alessi and Bowman
Bach:
6 Cello Suites
Blazhevich:
School for Trombone in Clefs
Edwards:
Lip Slurs
Edwards:
Introduction Studies in Tenor/Alto Clef
Klay:
Daily Exercises for Bb/F Trombone (w/ demo CD)
Marstellar:
Basic Routines
Remington:
Warm-up Studies
Ostrander:
The F Attachment and Bass Trombone:
Schlossberg
Daily Drills and Technical Exercises
Telemann:
12 Fantasies
Vining:
Daily Routines
Helpful Texts/Periodicals
Baker, B.:
Tenor Trombone Handbook
Begel:
A Modern Guide for Trombonists and Other
Musicians
Bernstein:
The Infinite Variety of Music
Cutler:
The Art of Happiness
Ervin:
Rangebuilding on the Trombone
Farkas:
The Art of Brass Playing
Farkas:
The Art of Musicianship
Fink:
Trombonists Handbook
Frederiksen:
Arnold Jacobs, Song & Wind
Gallwey:
The Inner Game of Tennis
Green:
The Inner Game of Music
International
Trombone Association Journals
Kleinhammer:
The Art of Trombone Playing
Lewis:
Broken Embouchures
Raph:
Double-Valve Bass Trombone
Sloan:
Orchestral Recordings for Low Brass
Stewart:
The Legacy of a Master: Arnold Jacobs
Stewart:
Vining:
Werner:
Wick:
Winding:
The Legacy of a Master: Philip Farkas
What Every Trombonist Needs to Know About the
Body
Effortless Mastery
Trombone Technique
Yoga for Musicians and Other Special People
(difficult/expensive to find)
Tenor Trombone Solos
Arnold:
Fantasy for Trombone (unaccompanied)
Bach:
Arioso
Bach:
Haste, Ye Scheperds
Bach:
Cello Suites
Bakaleininkoff:
Andantino Cantabile
Barat:
Andante and Allegro
Bassett:
Sonata
Beethoven:
Variations on Handels Judas Maccabeus
Berghmans:
La femme a Barbe
Berio:
Sequenza V (unaccompanied)
Berlioz:
Recitative & Prayer
Bernstein:
Elegy for Mippy II (unaccompanied)
Blazevhich:
Concert Pieces 1-5
Bloch:
Symphony
Bolter:
Arctic Emanations
Bourgeois:
Concerto
Boutry:
Capriccio
Bozza:
Ballade
Castrde:
Sonatine
Chavez:
Concerto
Crespo:
Improvisation no. 1 (unaccompanied)
Creston:
Fantasy
Croce-Spinelli:
Solo de Concours
Curnow:
Fantasy
David:
Concertino
Davison:
Sonata
de Meij:
T-Bone Concerto
Defaye:
Deux Danses
Demersseman:
Introduction and Polonaise
Desportes:
Fantasie
Dubois:
Cortege
Dubois:
Sonatine Impromptu
Dutilleux:
Chorale, Cadence, et Fugato
Ewazen:
Sonata
Ewazen:
Visions of Light
Fetter:
Variations on Dona Nobis Pacem
Frackenpohl:
Variations on a Theme of Shostakovich
Galliard:
6 Sonatas
Gaubert:
Cantabile et Scherzo
Gaubert:
Morceau Symphonque
Glazunov:
Chant du Menestrel
Goldstein:
Colloquy
Grafe:
Grand Concerto
Grondahl:
Concerto
Guilmant:
Morceau Symphonique
Handel:
Concerto in f minor
Hartley:
Sonata Concertante
Hasse:
Suite
Hidas:
Concerto
Hindemith:
Suite
Hindemith:
Sonate
Holst:
Duo Concertante (with organ)
Jacob:
Concerto
Jacob:
Sonata
Jacob:
Suite
Jacob Ter Veldhuis:
I Was Like WOW (with CD accompaniment)
Jongen:
Aria and Polonaise
Jorgensen:
Romance, op. 21
Jorgensen:
Suite
Krenek:
Five Pieces
Larsson:
Concertino
Lynn:
Doolallynastics (unaccompanied)
Marcello:
6 Sonatas
Martin:
Ballade
McKay:
Sonata no. 1
Milhaud:
Concertino dHiver
Mills:
Red Dragonfly
Mozart:
Concerto Rondo, K. 371
Mozart:
Concerto in B-flat, K. 191
Nehlybel:
Suite
Nordheim:
The Hunting of the Snark (unaccompanied)
Olin:
Sonata
Peaslee:
Arrows of Time
Pergolesi:
Sinfonia
Persichetti:
Parable (unaccompanied)
Pryor:
all solos
Pugh:
Concerto
Rabe:
Basta
Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto
Ropartz:
Andante et Allegro
Ropartz:
Piece in Mi Bemol Mineur
Rota:
Concerto
Rouse:
Concerto
Rousseau:
Piece Concertante
Saint Saens:
Cavatine
Salzedo:
Piece Concertante
Sanders:
Sonata
Scelsi:
Three Pieces
Schuller:
Eine Kleine Posaunemusik
Schumann:
Three Romances
Serly:
Concerto
Serocki:
Concerto
Serocki:
Sonatina
Simons:
Atlantic Zephyrs
Stark:
Suite
Stevens:
Sonata
Stevens:
Sonatina
Stojowski:
Fantaisie
Sulek:
Sonata Vox Gabrieli
Telemann:
F minor Sonata
Telemann:
Fantasies (flute)
Tomasi:
Concerto
Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
Vivaldi:
Sonatas
Von Kreisler:
Sonatine
Walker:
Concerto
Weber:
Romance
White:
Sonata
Wilder:
Sonata for Trombone
Xenakis:
Keren (unaccompanied)
Alto Trombone Solos
Albrechtsberger:
Concerto
Anonymous (ed. Weiner): Sonata
Bolter:
Sky Dreams
Cesare:
Canzon La Hieronyma
Ewazen:
Palmetto Suite
M. Haydn:
Concerto from Divertimento in D
Hidas:
Baroque Concerto
L. Mozart:
Concerto from Serenade
W. Mozart:
Jener Donnerworte Kraft from Die Shuldigkeit
des ersten Gebots
Saglietti :
Suite
Wagenseil:
Bass Trombone
Albinoni:
Bach:
Bach:
Bariller:
Boutry:
Bozza:
Bozza:
Casterede:
Dossett:
Duckworth:
Ewazen:
Ewazen:
Ewazen:
Ewazen:
Fetter:
Frank:
George:
Hartley:
Hartley:
Hidas:
Hindemith:
Hoffman:
Jacob:
Koopman:
Lanatier:
Lassen:
Tuthill:
Lebedev:
Lebedev:
Lieb:
Markey:
McCarty:
Muller:
Nelhybel:
Sachse:
Schnyder:
Shostakovich:
Siekmann:
Siekmann:
Spillman:
Spillman:
Concerto
Solos
Adagio in Fa majeur
Cello Suites
Flute Partita
Hans de Schonceloch
Tubachhanale
Theme Varie
New Orleans
Fantasie Concertante
Trilogy
Statements and Interludes
Concertino
Concerto
Rhapsody
Ballade for Bass Trombone
Spain
Variations on Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Concerto
Arioso
Sonata Breve (unaccomp.)
Meditation (unaccomp.)
3 Leichte Stucke
Trigger Treat
Cameos
Canzone (with CD)
Introduction, Romance and Allegro
Zwei Fantasie Stucke
Fantasia for Tuba or Bass Trombone
Concerto in One Movement
Concerto Allegro
Concertino Basso
Variations on Turkey in the Straw
Sonata for Bass Trombone
Praeludium, Chorale, Variations and Fugue
Concerto for Bass Trombone
Concertino
Sonata
Adagio from "Limpid Stream"
Concerto for Bass Trombone
Rhapsody on Pennsylvania Dutch Songs
Two Songs
Concerto
Stevens:
Sonatina
Tchaikovsky:
Melodrama
Tcherepnin:
Andante for Tuba
Telemann:
Flute Fantasies
Vaughan Williams:
Six Studies in English Folk Songs
White:
Tetra Ergon
Wilder:
Sonata
Zwilich:
Concerto
