Quoting Marc Zyla:
Hello All,
I am starting a doctoral teaching fellowship at the University
of
Illinois, and as a part of my fellowship I am responsible for teaching
horn methods to music education majors. I have thought up an assignment
for my class that will require the students become familiar with several
beginner method books. My question to the horn list community is what
are some great beginner method books that I might not be familiar with
and I should check out. When I was a young horn player I was brought up
through the old Rubank method books for band, as well as Essential
Elements and Standard of Excellence. Throughout my private teaching I
have come across another great book, the Boosey Brass Method. What might
be some other books that some of you all might use and I should
incorporate into my class? I appreciate any feedback you might have.
Thank you,
Marc Zyla
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
I started with the two books of the Pottag-Hovey Method, and then went
to Horner's Primary Studies. After that it was Kopprasch and the other
"usual suspects."
I suggest doing some searches of online library catalogs (e.g.,
http://catalog.loc.gov) and browsing library shelves under the
following class numbers, in probable approximate order of helpfulness.
I put the caption for each number from the classification schedule
(2007 ed.--the latest) in parentheses.
MT422 (Systems and methods)
MT428 (Self-instructors)
MT425 (Studies and exercises)
MT420 (General works)
I also suggest searching the following subject headings, again in
approximate order of probable usefulness:
Horn (Musical instrument)--Methods
Horn (Musical instrument)--Studies and exercises
Horn (Musical instrument)--Studies and exercises (Jazz)
Horn (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study
For reasons too complex to get into here, I strongly suspect the
Library of Congress's online catalog (URL above) does not list all of
the Library's holdings of this material. In addition, experience shows
that no matter how many library catalogs or other sources you search
under what headings, someone "out there" will still know about a work
that hasn't otherwise surfaced.
HTH.
Howard Sanner
hornl...@terrier.ampexguy.com
definitely writing as a private citizen and not speaking for my employer
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