UI Horn Studio
Suggested Repertoire List
Lower Level Lessons
Methods/Etudes
Rider Real World
Horn Playing (*Required)
Barboteu Lectures/Exercices
Decker Intermediate Serial Studies for Trumpet
Gallay 22 Studies, op. 58
Gallay 40 Preludes, op. 27
Gallay 12 Etudes, op. 57
Gates Odd Meter Etudes
Kopprasch 60 Studies, Bks. 1-2
Maxime-Alphonse 200 Etudes, Bks. 1-3
McCoy 46 Progressive Exercises for Low Horn
Musser & Del Borgo Rhythms of Contemporary Music
Rochut Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Bk. 1
Rossari Esercizi
per il Corse inferiore (intermediate course; especially for
transposition)
Sawyer Concone
Lyrical Studies
Shoemaker Legato Etudes
Solos
Abbott Alla
Caccia
Borroff Sonata
Bozza Chant Lointain, En Irlande
Chabrier Larghetto
Cooke Rondo in Bb
Clerisse Chant sans Paroles
Effinger Rondino
Frackenpohl Largo & Allegro
Glazunov Reveries
Gliere Nocturne, Romance, Valse Triste, Intermezzo
Mortelmans Lyrische Pastorale
Mozart Concert Rondo; Concerto No. 1
Oestreich Andante
Piantoni Air de Chasse
Ravel Pavane
Rosetti Concerto No. 4 in F
Saint-Saëns Romance, op 36
F. Strauss Nocturne
Telemann Adagio and Presto
Excerpts
LaBar Horn
Player’s Audition Handbook
Moore & Ettore French Horn Anthology
Proficiency Level
Lessons
Methods/Etudes
Gallay 40
Preludes, op. 27
Gallay 12 Etudes, op. 57
Kopprasch 60 Studies, Bk. 2
Maxime-Alphonse 200 Etudes, Bk. 3
Righini 6 Studi Seriali
Rochut Melodious Etudes for Trombone
Schuller Studies for Unaccompanied Horn
Stevens Changing Meter Studies
Solos
With piano
Desportes
Ballade Normande
Dunhill Cornucopia
Françaix Canon in Octave
J. Haydn (attrib.) Concerto No. 2
Heiden Sonata
Hummel Sonatine
Koetsier Sonatine
Kuhlau Andante e Polacca
Kvandal Introduction and Allegro
Larsson Concertino
Levy Suite
Mozart Concertos 1, 3; Concert Rondo
Nelhybel Scherzo Concertante
Neuling Bagatelle
Nisle Duos
Petric Lirizmi
Reinecke Nocturne
Saint-Saëns Morceau de Concert
Schumann Fantasie-Stücke, op. 73
F. Strauss Concerto, op. 8; Fantasie, op. 2
R. Strauss Concerto op. 11; Andante
Vintner Hunter’s Moon
Unaccompanied
Ketting Intrada
Krol Laudatio
Lyon Partita
Excerpt Books (the
above plus)
Thompson, David
Orchestral Audition Repertoire for Horn (parts)
Excerpts
required for Proficiency (as found in Moore & Ettore)
Beethoven Sym.
No. 3 (3rd mvt. trio); Sym. No. 8 (3rd mvt. trio; both
parts; Sym. No. 9 (3rd mvt. 4th hn solos)
Brahms Sym. No. 1 (2nd mvt. solo; 4th mvt. “alphorn” solo);
Sym. No. 2 (1st & 2nd mvt. solos); Sym. No. 3 (3rd mvt.
solo)
Mendelssohn
Nocturne from Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart Sym. No. 40 (3rd mvt. trio; both parts)
Rossini William
Tell Overture; Semiramide Overture (opening quartet
1st
Horn in D)
Shostakovich Sym. No. 5 – Mvt 1 Horn 1 – low unison passage
Tchaikovsky Sym. No. 4 (1st mvt. opening, all parts; m.169
tutti); Sym. No. 5 (2nd mvt. solo)
Weber Der
Freischütz Overture (opening quartet, all parts)
Upper Level Lessons
Methods/Etudes
Barboteu Etudes
Classiques; 20 Etudes Concertantes
Falk 20 Etudes Atonales
Gallay 40 Preludes op. 27
Gallay 12 Etudes op. 57
Gallay 12 Etudes Brilliantes op. 43
Gallay 12 Grand Caprices
Maxime-Alphonse 200 Etudes, Bks. 4-6
Mueller 22 Etudes (from op 64)
Neuling 30 Special Low Horn Etudes, Bks. 1-2
Reynolds 48 Etudes
Rochut Meldoious Etudes for Trombone
Schuller Studies for Unaccompanied Horn
Solos
With piano
Beethoven Sonata
Bozza Sur les Cimes; En Foret
Brouwer Sonata
Cherubini 2nd Sonata
Danzi Sonatas
Defaye Alpha
Dukas Villanelle
Gliere Concerto
J. Haydn Concerto No. 1
M. Haydn Concertino
Hindemith Sonata (F), Alto Horn Sonata
Jacob Concerto
Madsen Sonata
McTee Images
Messaien Interstellar Call
Mozart Concertos; Concerto Rondo; Quintet
Poulenc Elegy
Rheinberger Sonata
Ries Sonata
Rosetti Concertos
Saint-Saens Romance, op. 67
Schumann Adagio and Allegro
Stevens Sonata
R. Strauss Concertos 1&2
Vignery Sonata
Wilder Sonatas 1,2 & 3; Suite
Unaccompanied
Amram Blue
Variations
Berge Horn-Lokk
Gryc Reflections on a Southern Hymn
Persichetti Parable
Reynolds Partita; Elegy
Chamber music
Brahms Trio op.
40
Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Schubert Auf dem Strom (with soprano)
Excerpt Books (the
above plus)
Chambers
Orchestral Passages, Bks. 1-8; Strauss
Recommended Excerpts
(study parts whenever possible)
Bach Brandenburg
Concerto No. 1
Beethoven Sym. No. 7; Fidelio Overture (low horn)
Brahms Sym. No. 4; Piano Concerto No. 2; Academic
Festival Overture
Dvorak Sym. No. 9 (New World)
Mahler Sym. No. 1
Rossini Overture to Barber of Seville
Saint-Saens Sym. No. 3
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Ein Heldenleben
Wagner “Short Call” from Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from
Götterdämmerung
“Long Call” from Siegfried
Additional Repertoire
Methods/Etudes
Bozza Graphismes
Ceccarossi 10 Caprices
Chaynes 15 Etudes
Gallay Etudes Op. 13, 32, 37
Hill Extended Techniques for Horn
Reynolds 16 Studies for horn (Kreutzer)
F. Strauss 17 Concert Studies
Thevet 50 Exercices `a Changement de Ton
Weber 13 Etudes
Solos
With piano
Czerny Andante e
Polacca
Desenclos Cantilene et Divertissements
Durko Symbols
Förster Concertos
Françaix Divertimento
Hamilton Sonata Notturna
Hindemith Concerto
Krufft Sonata in E
Madsen Sonata
L. Mozart Concerto (Sinfonia di Camera)
Musgrave Music for Horn and Piano; Golden Echo (hn/tape)
Pauer Concerto
Pilss Sonata
Reynolds Sonata; Fantasy Etudes V
Rossini Prelude; Theme & Variations
Schoeck Concerto
Mark Schultz Dragons in the Sky
Telemann Concerto in D
Tomasi Concerto
Weber Concertino
Unaccompanied
Apostel Sonatine
(unacc.)
Buyanovsky
Traveling Impressions; Sonata No. 2
Hill Jazz Soliloquies (unacc.)
Excerpt Books
Jones 20th
Century Orchestral Studies
Farkas Orchestral Passages from the Modern French
Repertoire
Chambers Orchestral Passages, Wagner
Thompson Orchestral Audition Repertoire for Horn
Additional Excerpts
(study parts whenever possible)
Bach “Quoniam”
from B minor Mass
Beethoven Sym. No. 2; Sym. No. 6; Piano Concerto No. 5
Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1; Variations on a Theme by
Haydn
Bruckner Sym. No. 4
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Franck Symphony in D minor
Haydn Sym. No. 31
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Mahler Sym. No. 4; Sym. No. 5
Mendelssohn Sym. No. 3
Ravel Piano Concerto in G; Pavane
Schumann Sym. No. 3
Strauss Don Quixote
Stravinsky Firebird; Rite of Spring
Wagner Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Prelude to Das Rheingold