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CMP 1424
Solo for unaccompanied horn.
Grade 5. Approx. duration: twenty minutes.
Set consists of a performance score.
Each of the thirteen character pieces that make up this set presents a specific technical or expressive objective.
- The control of slurred phrases across the horn’s registers is the focus of the first etude.
- The second helps to control changes in tempo as well as sudden changes of register.
- The third features a more folkloric character as a way to prompt an appropriate tone color.
- The fourth is more clearly linked to overall technique and finger control.
- In the fifth etude the hornist must maintain good rhythmic control across registers.
- Sudden changes of register from low to high while maintaining rhythmic accuracy are the objectives of the sixth etude.
- In addition to its frequent use of leaps, the seventh etude introduces the use of bouché.
- Though similar to the fifth etude, the eighth features more changes of meter.
- The ninth seeks to foster greater control of crescendo and decrescendo, while the focus of the tenth etude is on articulation.
- The emphasis of the eleventh etude is on rhythmic precision.
- Asymmetric rhythms, slurred intervals and glissandi present particular challenges in the twelfth etude.
- Care must be used to ensure that the accented sequences of four sixteenth notes in the final etude be played as smoothly as possible.
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