Suggested Literature for Gustavus Students

These are methods, etudes and solos we may use in your lessons.  Please check with me before making a purchase!

Level One

Arban/Alessi/Bowman: Complete Method (NOT the Carl-Fischer ed.)

Rochut: Melodious Etudes Bk. I

Blume: 36 Etudes (NOT Fink ed.)

Burtis: The American Trombone

Colley: Tune-Up System

Herring: 40 Progressive Studies

Kopprasch: 60 Studies vol. I

LaFosse: School of Sight Reading and Style, Book A

Moore: Six Days (free from yours truly)

for bass:

Blume/Fink: 36 Studies

Faulise: F & D Double Valve Routines

Gillis: 70 Progressive Studies

SOLOS:

Blazhevich: Concert Sketch No. 5

Casterade: Jeux d’intervalles

Galliard: Sonatas (vol. 1 or 2)

Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique

Pryor: Annie Laurie

Raph: Solos for Trombone

Sanders: Sonata in Eb

Simons: Atlantic Zephyrs

Smith, H.C.: Solos for the Trombone Player

Telemann: Sonata in F Minor

for bass:

Bach: For He That is Mighty

Bartles: Elegy

Bozza: Theme Varie

Damase: Prelude, Elegy, and Finale

Ledbedev: Concerto in One Movement

Lieb: Concertino Basso

Liszt: Hosanna

Level Two

Bitsch: 15 Etudes de Rhythm

Blazevich: Studies in Clefs

Johnson, J.J.: Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Trombonist

LaFosse: School of Sight Reading and Style Vol. B

Miller, Ernest: 60 Studies

Slama: 66 Basic Studies

Snidero: Jazz Conceptions (w/ CD)

Tyrell: 40 Progressive Studies

for bass:

Aharoni: New Method for the Modern Bass Trombone

Blazhevich: 70 Studies for Tuba (vol. 1)

Bollinger: Valve Technique for Bass Trombone

Gillis: 70 Progressive Etudes

SOLOS:

Barat: Andante and Allegro

Bernstein: Elegy for Mippy II

Cesare: La Hieronyma

Davison: Sonata

Dubois: Suite

Frackenpohl: Variations on a March of Shostakovich

Handel: Sonata in A Minor

Hindemith: Sonate

Jorgenson: Romance

Marcello: Sonatas

Mercadante: Salve Maria

Persichetti: Seranade No. 6

Rousseau: Piece Concertante

Saint-Saens: Cavatine

Sulek: Sonata

White: Sonata

for bass:

Anderson: Minstrel Man

Bozza: Allegro et Finale

Defaye/Knaub: Deux Danses

Hidas: Meditation

Hindemith: Three Easy Pieces (for 'cello)

Jacob: Cameos

McCarty: Sonata

Telemann: Sonata in F Minor

Level Three

Initial Orchestral Excerpt Study: See Mr. Moore for Music

Blazhevich: 26 Sequnces

Bordogni/Rochut: Melodious Etudes Vol. II

Kahila: Advanced Studies (alto & tenor clefs)

Kopprasch: 60 Studies Vol II

LaFosse: School of Sight Reading and Style Vol. C

Marsteller: Advanced Slide Technique

Parow: Method for Alto Trombone

Pichaureau: 21 Etudes

Uber: Studies in Three Clefs

for bass:

Blazhevich: 70 Studies for Tuba (vol. 2)

Kopprasch: 60 Studies for Tuba

SOLOS:

Bassett: Suite

David: Concertino

Ewazen: Sonata

Gouinguen: Concerto

Grondahl: Concerto

Herbert, Victor: Canzonetta

Holst: Duo Concertante

Jongen: Aria et Polonaise

Larsen, ed.  Various Composers: Arias for Tenor

1. Part of the Schirmer Opera Anthology, this is a collection of the "greatest hits" of various musical periods. 
   

Larsson: Concertino, Op 45, No 7

Massenet: Meditation

Monaco: Sonata (may be out of print)

Persichetti: Parable

Pryor: Thoughts of Love

Ropartz: Concertpiece in Eb

Stevens: The Chief

Weber: Romance

Yoshioko: Extase

for bass:

Bozza: New Orleans

Casterade: Fantaisie Concertante 

Culver: Suite for Unaccompanied Bass Trombone

Defay: Deux Dances (arr. for bass trombone)

Ewazen: Concerto for Bass Trombone

Fetter: Variations on Palestrina's "Dona Nobis Pacem"

Frescobaldi: Canzoni per Basso solo

Graham: Concert Music for Tuba

Handel/Yeo: Sonata Op. 1, No. 12

Hindemith: Alto Horn Sonata

Jacob, Gordon: Cameos

Nelhybel: Counterpoint # 2 for Bass Trombone and Percussion

Still/Yeo : Romance

Spillman: Concerto

Wilder: Sonata

Level Four

Advanced Orchestral Excerpt Study: See Mr. Moore for Music

Bitsch: Rhythmical Studies

Boutry: 12 Etudes de Haut Perfectionment

Charlier: Etudes (32) de Perfectionist

Couillaud: Trente Etudes Moderne

LaFosse: School of Sight Reading and Style Vol. D

Pichaureau: 20 Etudes Atonales

Shostakovich/Yeo : Orchestral Excerpts

Smith: 20th Century Orchestra Studies

Stoneberg: Orchesterstudien, 8 volumes (Gerig)

Uber: 23 Virtuoso Clef Studies

for bass:

Bitsch: 14 Rhythm Studies

Blazevich: 70 Etudes for Tuba vol. 2

SOLOS:

Albrechtsberger: Concerto (alto)

Bach: Six Cello Suites

Bassett: Sonata

Bourgeois: Concerto

Casterade: Prelude and Dance

Casterade: Sonatina

Creston: Fantasy

Dutilleux: Choral, Cadence et Fugato

Jacob: Concerto

McKay: Sonatas 1 and 2

Milhaud: Concertino d'Hiver

Mozart, L.: Concerto (alto)

Peaslee: Arrows of Time

Pryor: Blue Bells of Scotland

Pryor: Fantastic Polka

Pryor: The Patriot

Rabe: Basta

Rachmaninoff: Elegy in Eb Minor

Serocki: Sonatine

Telemann:  Fantasies for Flute

Wagenseil: Concerto (alto)

for bass:

Adler: Canto II

Brown: Postures

Fetter: Bass Lines

Frank: Variations on "Barnacle Bill the Sailor"

Ewazen: Rhapsody for Bass Trombone

George: Concerto

Hartley: Sonata Breve

Hidas: Rhapsody

Koetsier: Falstaffiade

Larsson: Concertino, Op 45, No 7

Penderecki: Capriccio for Solo Tuba

Premru:Tuba Concerto

Siekmann: Concerto

Skolnik: Three Pieces

Telemann/Raph : Fantasies for Flute

Uber: Skylines

Vaughn-Williams: Concerto for Tuba

Williams, John: Concerto for Tuba

White: Tetra Ergon