Course Objective: Freshman Year (lower level 025: 054) Trumpet Proficiency Juries To pass into upper level lessons, lower level students must successfully pass all portions of a proficiency

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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

2016 - 2017 APPLIED TRUMPET SYLLABUS

Dr. Amy Schendel

Office: 5410 Voxman Music Building

Office Phone: 319-335-1653

Cell Phone: 608-852-7701

Email: amy-schendel@uiowa.edu

Office Hours: TBA

This syllabus is subject to revision based on the changing needs of the studio and individual students

Course Objective:

The objective of this course is to develop the trumpet students musical and technical prowess.

Development of strong fundamentals and a hard work ethic will provide the cornerstone to every

students success. Through weekly assignments of exercises, etudes, solos, and orchestral

excerpts, student will gain the skills necessary to achieve their musical goals.

Freshman Year (lower level 025: 054):

The first year will focus on the development of strong fundamentals consisting of

Technical Concepts: tone production, articulation, air efficiency

Musical Development: phrasing, harmonic/melodic analysis, rhythm, begin transposition

work

Practice Routine: structure, efficiency, mental focus

*Weekly assignments from (as applicable):

Arban, Complete Method

Schlossberg, Daily Drills

Clarke, Technical Studies

*Etudes:

Bordogni/Rochut, Melodious Etudes, Book 1

Wurm, 40 Studies

Caffarelli, 100 Studies (transposition)

Bousquet, 36 Celebrated Studies

Getchell, Practical Studies, Book 1 and 2

Brandt, 34 Studies for Trumpet, ed. Vacchiano

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*Solo Repertoire:

Hummel, Haydn, Kennan, Stevens, Clarke

Scales:

Begin routine of scale and arpeggio practice (major, minor, chromatic, and whole tone)

Requirements:

1. Perform at least 3 times per semester in weekly trumpet seminar with a minimum of one being accompanied

2. Successful completion of fall and spring studio semester projects as outlined by Dr. Schendel

3. Bring required lesson materials and notebook to every lesson 4. Attendance at mandatory events: trumpet guest artist events and student

trumpet recitals

5. Perform on the end of semester studio trumpet recital 6. Schedule 2 coaching sessions with your pianist and Dr. Schendel 1 month prior

to your end of semester solo performances

7. Proficiency Jury (see below for requirements):

All applied undergraduate freshmen and sophomore trumpet students are required to play

a proficiency jury at the end of each semester (4 semesters total). A proficiency jury is

equivalent to a final exam and will showcase your semesters work. With successful

completion of all four proficiency juries, the student will pass into upper level lessons

beginning their junior year and will then play a regular jury until the year of their senior

recital (see proficiency jury requirement sheet for details).

Failure to perform a proficiency jury will result in a failing grade for that semester. The student must arrange for the jury material with an accompaniment to be heard at least

twice in a lesson setting.

A student is required to bring the following materials to the proficiency exam. Failure to

do so will affect the students semester grade.

1. One completed repertory sheet

2. All materials and equipment borrowed from the instructor during the semester.

Please reserve a time on the jury sign-up sheet that will be posted at least a week in

advance each semester. Be sure to check with your accompanist ahead of time to find out

their availability. All students taking private lessons are required to take a jury.

*All repertoire listed in this curriculum (etudes, method books, and solos) is a partial sample of materials covered in

this course. A wide scope of music will be addressed within the studio including a variety of arrangements,

transcriptions, commercial, and jazz music.

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Trumpet Proficiency Juries

To pass into upper level lessons, lower level students must successfully pass all portions of a

proficiency jury by the end of their sophomore year. The proficiency juries will take place at the

end of each semester of the freshmen and sophomore year and will include a solo and etude that

you have worked on throughout the semester, a sight reading example, and specifically

designated scales, arpeggios, and excerpts. Transposition will be required the 3rd and or 4th

semesters only. Parts that are not passed may be tried again in subsequent semesters, but all

parts must be successfully completed by the end of sophomore year.

Scale, arpeggio, orchestral excerpt, and transposition requirements:

1. Major ,harmonic, melodic, and natural minor scales (tongued or slurred)

Chromatic scale (tongued or slurred)

*Trumpets play all scales except F, E, Eb, D and Db two octaves

2. Major, minor, fully diminished 7th, and dominant 7th arpeggios (tongued or slurred)

*Trumpets play all arpeggios 2 octaves except for F, E, Eb, D and Db which will be 1

octave plus the 3rd and 5th

3. Orchestral Excerpts: see professors list for required excerpts

4. Transposition:

Required to play on C trumpet: transpose to trumpet in A, Bb, B, D, Eb, E, F, and G

Semester 1 1. Solo of choice

2. Etude (out of 3 chosen by faculty, you pick one)

3. Sight Reading

4. Major scales and chromatic scale

5. Major arpeggios

6. 2 excerpts: Pictures at an Exhibition, Lenore Call No. 3

Semester 2 1. Solo of choice

2. Etude (out of 3 chosen by faculty, you pick one)

3. Sight Reading

4. Natural minor scales

5. Minor arpeggios

6. 2 excerpts: Respighi Pines of Rome, Brahms Academic Festival Overture

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Semester 3

1. Solo of choice

2. Etude (out of 3 chosen by faculty, you pick one)

3. Sight Reading

4. Harmonic minor scales

5. Dominant 7th arpeggios

6. 2 excerpts: Mahler 5, Lenore Call No. 2

7. Transposition

Semester 4

1. Solo of choice

2. Etude (out of 3 chosen by faculty, you pick one)

3. Sight Reading

4. Melodic minor scales

5. Diminished 7th scales

6. 2 excerpts: Schumann 2, Petrushka

7. Transposition

*Proficiency juries will be graded on a pass/fail basis only.

Required Trumpet Proficiency Jury Orchestral Excerpt List

1. Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Call #3

2. Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonore Call #2

3. Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (promenade)

4. Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (opening and RHN 13)

5. Johannes Brahms, Academic Festival Overture (14 after letter C to Listesso tempo)

6. Ottorino Respighi, Pines of Rome (mvt. 2 lyrical solo)

7. Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 2 (opening choral)

8. Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka (Ballerinas Dance, pick-up to 135 to 139 and Walz, 2 bars before 141

to 6 bars afer 142)

Additional Orchestral Excerpts Challenge (not required)

I have formulated the following list of excerpts to challenge the most motivated students to shoot for,

performing challenging orchestral excerpts in a performance jury.

1. Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3 (mvt. III choral, 1 bar before RHN 14)

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2. Ravel, Piano Concerto (mvt. 1, RHN 2)

3. Bizet, Carmen (Suite No. 1, Prelude to Act I, bar 1)

4. Richard Wagner, Parsifal (Prelude, bar 9 to bar 30)

5. Claude Debussy, Fetes (mvt. II, bar 124)

6. Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben (Battle Scene, 7 bars after RHN 43)

7. Igor Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat (mvt. IV, RHN 53)

8. Shostakovich, Piano Concerto (mvt. II, RHN 34)

Tips for learning and studying orchestral repertoire:

1. Get the full trumpet part and score (all scores for the above repertoire are available in the music

library)

2. Identify and define all foreign musical terms

3. Study the historical background for each piece (i.e. genre, when the piece was written,

programmatic information, etc.)

4. Listen to the entire piece and study how the trumpet part fits into the overall context

5. Listen to a minimum of 4 different recordings of each piece

6. Practice the trumpet part along with the orchestral recording of each piece

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Sophomore Year (025:054):

The second year will be a continuation of the fundamentals begun during the freshman year with

the addition of more advanced technical issues. A closer study of musical concepts (phrase

structure, form, shape, and style) will be addressed as well.

*Etudes:

Continuation of Bousquet, Wurm, Brandt, Bordogni/Rochut, and Caffarelli studies. Add

Charlier as well as other specialized studies depending on each students individual needs

and goals.

*Solos:

Begin adding solo repertoire (as applicable) from Arutunian, Hindemith, Tull, Ketting,

Bozza, Bitsch, Torelli, and Corelli

Cover styles from Baroque and Classical periods into modern 20th and 21st century

repertoire

Continue study of transposition and begin study of orchestral excerpts

Requirements:

1. Perform at least 3 times per semester in weekly trumpet seminar with a minimum of one being accompanied

2. Successful completion of fall and spring studio semester projects as outlined by Dr. Schendel

3. Bring required lesson materials and notebook to every lesson 4. Attendance at mandatory events: trumpet guest artist events a