Método

Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon

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

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Modules see below | 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 1-1	England	Baroque	Introduction to Ornamentation	Galliard, First Sonata
Module 1-2	Mexico	Baroque	Appoggiaturas	Jerusalem, various music
Module 1-3	England	Baroque	Context	Galliard, First Sonata
Module 1-4	Mexico	Baroque	Application 1	Sumaya, O Pedro quien pudiera llegar
Module 1-5	Various	Baroque	Application 2
Module 1-6	Germany	Baroque	Introduction to a Telemann Sonata	Telemann, Sonata in F Dorian (Minor)
Module 1-7	Various	Baroque	Other Considerations of Ornamentation, Accompaniment
Module 2-1	Italy	Classical	Introduction to Partimenti	Furno, Partimenti, p. 9
Module 2-2			Introduction to Partimenti
Module 2-3			Introduction to Partimenti
Module 3-1			Introduction to Musical Styles
Module 3-2			Introduction to Musical Styles
Module 3-3			Introduction to Musical Styles
Module 4-1			Reed Finishing, Introduction
Module 4-2			Reed Finishing, High Note Reed
Module 4-3			Reed Making
Module 5-1			Life and Faith Issues
Module 6-1			Technology
Module 7-1			Endurance
1	USA; Annapolis, Maryland	Colonial	Circular Breathing, C#5 and D5	Ravel, Boléro; Neilsen Quintet, Variation 8.
2	Brazil		High Register Grace Notes	Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring); Beethoven, Symphony No.6, II.
3	USA	Ragtime	D#5/Eb5	Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring); Mendelssohn, Zwei Concertstuecke, No. 2
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
6	USA		E5, Rapid shifts	Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, I; Leshnoff, Night Whispers
7	Mexico		Circular Breathing with Articulation	Leshnoff, Double Concerto
8	Brazil		F5, Harmonics	Ewell, Gethsemane for Solo Bassoon
9	USA		More work with F5	Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, III
10	Various		G5	Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Ewell, Flight of the Bumblebee