Horn Solo

BWV 1041

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Arranged for brass quintet, this version features the horn player as the soloist

this set comes in two keys:  d minor and c minor

Not just a study but exercises in playing the blues chord progressions. Chord symbols provided in the music.

One etude with 24 improvisations written on a Blues in F with included chord symbols. All improvisations are written in a 2 octave range without any tempo mark. It has a clear and simple notation with any key or bar changes.

Unaccompanied; Four Movements: Dance of the CapriCORns; A Beautiful Whitsunday; Viennese Waltz; Dance of the HORNets

More than studies, they could stand alone on a recital. The book is written in different styles: pastoral, scherzo, waltz, ending with a dance. The type of writing is mostly modal sometimes atonal. There are some bar changes.

Unaccompanied; Excellent solo horn piece for valve horn or natural horn.

A short brilliant piece for horn solo. The cadenza surprises the listeners with stopped passages and the use of double stops, which the legendary Giovanni Punto liked to play to show off is his cadenzas.

Unaccompanied; A study in some modern horn techniques.

This piece permits the horn player to express to the maximum the possibilites that the instrument offers. The dodecaphonic system is the principal structural base of this piece, but used without respecting the strict rules.

Unaccompanied; Four movements: Scandinavia; Italy; Espana; Japan

Not just a study but exercises in playing the blues chord progressions. Chord symbols provided in the music.

One etude with 24 improvisations written on a Blues in F with included chord symbols. All improvisations are written in a 2 octave range without any tempo mark. It has a clear and simple notation with any key or bar changes.

Unaccompanied; Quite difficult but well worth the effort.