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Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon

Techniques, Etudes, Melodies, and Excerpts from the Americas and Beyond

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Level 5

 Modules 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Lessons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Lesson Number
(select link)		 Country of Melodies Genre of Melodies Techniques or Concepts Excerpts (Various Countries)
Module 5-1 England Baroque Introduction to Ornamentation Galliard, First Sonata
Module 5-2 Mexico Baroque Appoggiaturas Jerusalem, various music
Module 5-3 England Baroque Context  Galliard, First Sonata
Module 5-4 Mexico Baroque Application 1 Sumaya, O Pedro quien pudiera llegar
Module 5-5 Germany Baroque Introduction to a Telemann Sonata Telemann, Sonata in F Dorian (Minor)
Module 5-6 Austria Classical Mozart
 Mozart Bassoon Concerto
Module 5-7 Various Baroque
 Other Considerations of
Ornamentation,  Accompaniment
Module 5-8 Baroque/
Classical		 Cadenzas
Module 5-9 Italy Classical Introduction to Partimenti Furno, Partimenti, p. 9
Module 5-10 Reed Making
Module 5-11 Reed Finishing
Module 5-12 Life and Faith Issues
Module 5-13 Technology
Module 5-14 Endurance
1 USA; Annapolis, Maryland Colonial Circular Breathing, C#5 and D5 Ravel, Boléro; Neilsen Quintet, Variation 8; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, IV.
2 Brazil High Register Grace Notes
 Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring); Beethoven, Symphony No.6, II; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, III. 
3 USA Ragtime D#5/Eb5 Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring); Mendelssohn, Zwei Concertstuecke, No. 2; Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, III.
4 Various
Fast E4 and D5 Fingerings,
Bisbigliando (Timbral Trills)
 Respighi, Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome); Strauss, Don Quixote
5 Various Multiphonics Ewell, Gethsemane for Solo Bassoon,  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, IV.
6 USA E5, Rapid shifts
 Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, I;  Leshnoff, Night Whispers; Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker; Mozart, Serenade; Haydn, Symphony 103, I.
7 Mexico Circular Breathing with Articulation Leshnoff,  Double Concerto; Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker; Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture
8 Brazil F5, Harmonics Ewell, Gethsemane for Solo Bassoon; Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels
9 Various Mixed Meters in Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat
 Stravinsky, Histoire du soldat; Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, III
10 USA G5 Stravinsky, Histoire du soldat; Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Ewell, Flight of the Bumblebee

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