Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon
(Método: Música de las Américas para fagot)

Techniques, Etudes, Melodies, and Excerpts from the Americas and Beyond
(Técnicas, estudios, melodías y extractos de las Américas y más allá)

Lesson Number (select link)	Country of Melodies	Genre of Melodies	Techniques or Concepts	Excerpts (Various Countries)
1	Various		Tabuteau's "Drives"; Vibrato	Mahler, Symphony 1, mvt. 1.
2	Various		Double tonguing, slurring downward	Beach, Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet
3	USA	Sacred Harp	Mixed Divisions of 2 and 3	Reicha, Quintet in Eb; Brahms, Symphony 1
4	Mexico		Sprints with Mixed Tonguing	Ponce, Chapultepec; Beethoven, Violin Concerto
5	Brazil		Alternate F#2, Syncopations with 16th and 8th Notes	Wagner, Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg Overture
6	USA and Canada	Spirituals	Rubato Drives	Ewell, "Adam" from Paradise Lost
7	Various	Christmas	Monotones for Phrasing	Handel, Messiah, Halleluyah Chorus
8	Various		Articulation Sprints	Beach, Gaelic Symphony; Dukas, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
9	USA	Cowboy Songs	Up Tempo Melodies, Off Beats	Mozart, Bassoon Concerto, 2nd Mov.; Brahms, Violin Concerto, 2nd Mov.
10	USA	Folk Songs	2-5 Articulation, 5/4 Meter	Vivaldi, A Minor Concerto, RV 497; Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever
11	Various		Trill Components	Bizet, Carmen, Entr'acte
12	Argentina		Divisions of 2 and 3	Gomes, Ao Ceará livre!
13	USA	Tin Pan Alley	Beat Displacement, Monotones	Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20, 1st mov.
14	Mexico		Articulation Sprints, Showing Groupings of 2 and 3	Beethoven, 4th Symphony, 4th mov.; Ramírez Santillán, Concierto a Dios
15	Various		End-Beginning Practice Method, 32nds in Rhythms	Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Dance of the Yao People
16	Cuba		More End-Beginning Practicing, 32nds in Rhythms	Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Beach, Gaelic Symphony, 3rd Mov., Mozart, Symphony 41
17	Brazil		Long and Short Beat Markings, Musical Motion Using Articulation	Beethoven, 4th Symphony, 4th mov.; Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Overture; Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
18	USA and Canada		5 2 4 2 Articulation	Vivaldi, A Minor Concerto, RV 497; Weber, Der Freischütz; Coleridge-Taylor, Variations on an African Air
19	Peru		More Music with Tenor Clef	Alzedo, Missa de Requiem; Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
20	Various		Performance Suggestions for the “New World" Symphony	Dvořák, New World Symphony