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Solo work that explores the technique of stopping the horn. Composed for Marvin Howe.

In 1972 THE HORN CALL published part of a short treatise by Marvin Howe on Stopped Horn (1968).  In this short treatise, Marvin Howe discussed an effective method for improving stopped horn technique. The essential statement was that closing the hand in the bell of the horn, lowers the pitch to a half-step above the next lowest partial in the harmonic series.”  The subsequent letters to the editor of THE HORN CALL became what was known as “The Great Stopped Horn Debate.”  Rather than write a letter to the editor, I chose to compose this Prelude—to illustrate the techniques discussed by Marvin Howe.  (REF)

Interestingly enough, the review of this composition also became an ongoing discussion between the reviewer-Dr. Gayle Chesebro, the Editor of the Horn Call-Paul Mansur, and Dr. Howe.   So, this composition, itself, also became part of “The Great Stopped Horn Debate”!

In many ways the composition is a dialog between the outdoor horn-with little fanfares on open notes of the harmonic series-and the indoor horn-with open-stopped glissandi-created by closing the right hand inside the horn.  In the end, regardless of whether one is projecting open notes or stopped notes, the harmonic series always wins the debate! Grade: 5 University Division Solo Horn Selection--American Horn Competition, 1991, 1994, 1997, & 2001.

Recorded by Randall Faust on Fantasies on American Themes. Prelude for Solo Horn-Randall Faust, horn

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MSR CLASSICS, 1168. Andrew Pelletier, horn; Jason Aquila, piano, Hyung Ja Kim, piano; and Brian Rotz, organ.

HORN CALL for Horn and Electronic Media (1976)
CONCERTO for Horn and Wind Ensemble (1987/2006)
CALL AND RESPONSE for Solo Horn (1997)
THREE ENGLISH FOLK SONGS for Horn and Piano (2006)
RONDO for Horn and Piano (1997)
DECLAMATION--Fantasy Variations for Horn and Harpsichord (2004)
FESTIVE PROCESSIONAL for Horn and Organ (2001-2002)
MEDITATION for Horn and Organ (1983)
CELEBRATION for Horn and Organ (1974)
FANTASY on "Von Himmel Hoch" for Horn and Organ (2001)
SESQUICENTENNIAL PRELUDE (2004)

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This wonderful CD features the performance of Thomas and Tricia Jöstlein, horns and Yeon-Kyung Kim, piano and showcases the following pieces (all available in the Faust Music catalog.) Artist Biographies: Click HERE. Program and Performance notes: Click HERE.

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SINGING SMOOTH MELODIES ON THE HORN!

Sights and Sounds of the Symposium-for Two Horns and Piano-Randall Faust

I. The Bell Tower at Sunrise

II. A Rondo for the Morning Run

THE SOLO HORNIST Twelve Solos for Horn and Piano-arr. Marvin Howe

• Bach: Bist du bei mir

• Brahms: Sonntag, Op. 47, No. 3

• Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, No. 4

• Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86, No. 2

• Mozart: Dalla Sua Pace from Don Giovanni

• Faure: Pie Jesu from the Requiem

• Schubert: Einsamkeit from Die Winterreise, Op. 89

• Dvorak: Lament, Op 85. No. 6

• Faure: Sicilienne

• Mahler: Die zwei blauen Augen from Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen

• Saint-Saens: The Tourney of King John

• Vivaldi: Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patres from Gloria 

Romanza for Horn and Piano-Randall Faust

Epitaph for Ellen Campbell for Horn and Piano-Randall Faust

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This set of Variations is a comprehensive study of styles, rhythms, articulations, and techniques. When performed in its entirety is a major work for Solo Horn - equal in musical, dramatic, and technical challenge to many other works for Solo Horn—as well as works for orchestra and band - as performed by Professional and University Hornists. This work was commissioned by Nicholas Steffenhagen as a test composition for a research project for his Master's Degree at Illinois State University where he compared practice techniques of Professional and University Hornists. It is a set of variations for a virtuoso hornist - and could be used as a sequential set of studies for developing an advanced level of solo performance. I hope that all hornists enjoy studying and performing these Rhapsodic Variations! Grade: 5-6 Learn More

A collection of twelve solos for Horn and Piano arranged by Marvin C. Howe and edited by Randall E. Faust (2013). These solos are a wonderful addition to the solo repertoire for students of all levels and serve as interesting and beautiful selections for recitals, contest pieces, and as study materials to compliment The Advancing Hornist series of method books. Collection comes with a CD of the piano accompaniments. Grade: 4-6

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Recorded by Thomas and Tricia Jöstlein, horns and Yeon-Kyung Kim, piano on the CD: SINGING SMOOTH MELODIES ON THE HORN

Contents include:

• Bach: Bist du bei mir

• Brahms: Sonntag, Op. 47, No. 3

• Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, No. 4

• Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86, No. 2

• Mozart: Dalla Sua Pace from Don Giovanni

• Faure: Pie Jesu from the Requiem

• Schubert: Einsamkeit from Die Winterreise, Op. 89

• Dvorak: Lament, Op 85. No. 6

• Faure: Sicilienne

• Mahler: Die zwei blauen Augen from Lieder eines Fahrenden

• Saint-Saens: The Tourney of King John

• Vivaldi: Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patres from Gloria

 

 

for practice purposes, audio samples are the piano accompaniments only:

Bach: Bist du bei mir

Brahms: Sonntag, Op. 47, No. 3

Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op.94, No. 4

Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86, No. 2

Mozart: Dalla Sua Pace from Don Giovanni

Faure: Pie Jesu from the Requiem

Schubert: Einsamkeit from Die Winterreise, Op. 89

Dvorak: Lament, Op 85. No. 6

Faure: Sicilienne

Mahler: Die zwei blauen Augen from Lieder eines Fahrenden

Saint-Saens: The Tourney of King John

Vivaldi: Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patres from Gloria

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French Horn Player’s Guide to the Blues (and Beyond) is a new look at how horn players can get in on the joys and benefits of creating their own music and at last take part in the most influential musical genre of the 20th century, the blues. The blues is an aural art, but this method uses notation as a springboard to (paradoxically) getting free of dependence on notation. Players will learn about the structure of the blues and will learn to solo and create bass lines and accompaniments. Players may learn on their own, with a teacher, or with friends. Learn More

Former principal horn of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the first recipient of a doctorate in the instrument at Julliard, Polish-born teacher, player and composer Kazimierz Machala gives us a concerto for his instrument. In its original format, this work received its premiere on February 19, 2011 by the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra. Learn More

Written for Ricardo Matosinhos and premiered at the 55th International Horn Symposium, Kingsville, Texas, USA in 2022. SEQUENCES for Horn Solo—by Kazimierz Machala is a virtuoso composition that challenges the hornist and the listener to think beyond the theoretical definition of the term sequence (the repetition of a melodic or harmonic idea at a different tonal level). Throughout the four pages of this composition, he does not merely repeat the melodic ideas, but continually transforms them. As a result, Dr. Machala demonstrates the concepts of melodic development at the highest level. Learn More

This collection: Solo Studies for the Healthy Hornist contains ten solos of varying styles. Specifically written for the younger student in mind, the studies in this book will be interesting and challenging to more advanced players as well. When I retired from Western Illinois University in 2018, the focus of my teaching changed. No longer was I working with graduate students-or even undergraduate students who were doing more advanced projects on Wagner Tuba or the Natural Horn; many of my students, then, were in the younger years of high school or junior high school. So, even though I was older, I was spending more time with younger students. So, as I was spending more time teaching these younger students, I became more attuned to their activities in band, dance, and various athletic pursuits. As a result, let me give special thanks to these students who provided inspiration and test runs of these solo studies: Noah, Ernesto, Jack, Elena, Emily, Anabelle, Lorelei, Brooks, and Carter. Their energy and imagination have been an inspiration for these Solo Studies. Learn More

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This composition - a rainBow of orange above the Green - includes some joyful references to some of my past visits to the BGSU campus-as well as the many happy remembrances of four and a half decades of college teaching. This set of rhapsodic variations depicts a day in the life on a college or university campus starting from the colorful dawn-walking across the campus, hearing the fragments of music in the warm-up sessions in the music building, the classes-some informative and some pedantic, the inspiring moments of repose in the library and art gallery, the excitement of the band playing at an athletic event, and a concert where singers and instrumentalists all come together on stage to perform a final hymn of the school. Like many of my compositions, this work is a set of variations on a theme. Sometimes the theme is a hymn tune or a chorale. Sometimes it is set of variations on a more abstract cantus firmus. In this case, it is a theme found in the letters B, G, C, F, and A! The Three Horn Choirs consist of Choir I: Horn 1, 2, and 3; Choir II: horn 4, 5, and 6; and Choir III: Horn 7, 8, and 9. Within the Three Horn Choirs: 1, 4, and 7 are High Horn Parts; 2, 5, and 6 are middle Horn parts: and 3, 6, and 9 are the Low Horn Parts. As the conductor studies the score, one will see that this provides for many opportunities for antiphonal effects, solo passages for all ensemble members, and symphonic sonorities as one performs the composition. Grade: 5 Learn More

COMPOSED FOR ANDREW BAIN One of the highlights of the summer of 2020 was the opportunity to participate in a series of internet-based Warm-Up Classes presented by Andrew Bain-Principal Hornist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and co-hosted by Rupal Bain-of their INVESTED MUSICIAN program. Impressed by Andrew's regular presentation of horn studies in a comfortable and friendly atmosphere, I was inspired to write this piece by the fact that he candidly discussed some of his own personal technical challenges in playing the horn. This Scherzo is dedicated to Andrew Bain, his ongoing artistry, inspiration, and good humor.

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This three movement work is a wonderfully colorful set of etudes for solo horn. Grade: 5-6

Battle Axe emphasizes large leaps (7ths and 9ths), often slurred, as well as ascending sixteenth-note patterns following the octatonic scale. The Bug and the Blue Light is an expressive journey through many different keys (all lydian), with slurred, disjunct melody lines that cover a large range. Vertigo Skipping, explores the alternation between 6/8 and 5/8 ideas, as well as slurs from beat to beat, with the ascending major 9th appearing prominently. Three Concert Etudes-Dr. Ashley Cumming, horn

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Composed for Douglas Campbell. A major new work for Solo Horn--exploiting the study of the harmonics of the horn as practiced by Dr. Douglas Campbell and the composer. First performance--Interlochen Center for the Arts--Summer, 1996
Recorded by Randall Faust on Fantasies on American Themes

Grade: 5-6 Harmonielehre for Solo Horn-Randall Faust, horn Learn More

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Variations on hymn tune "Standing on the Promises of God." Premiered at the Sesquicentennial Services of Centenary United Methodist Church, Mankato, Minnesota. Recorded by Andrew Pelletier on MSR Classics 1168: Celebration: Horn Music of Randall Faust Grade: 5

Sesquicentennial Prelude for Horn and Organ, Andrew Pelletier, horn

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This work was inspired by the composer's study of the chants and dance rhythms of Native Americans. Performed by the composer at the International Horn Symposium in Munich in 1989. Grade: 5 Learn More

Variations on the Hymn--Amazing Grace. Composed for a presentation by John Heilman for the Auburn University Research Council, March 1997. University Division Solo Horn Selection, American Horn Competition, 2001

Grade: 5

Recorded by Andrew Pelletier on MSR Classics 1168: Celebration: Horn Music of Randall Faust

Recorded by David Griffin on compact disc: For You: Music for French Horn and Piano

Recorded by Randall Faust on Fantasies on American Themes

 Call and Response for Solo Horn-Randall Faust, horn

Andrew Pelletier, May 2018. Performance starts at 9:50.             

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Fleeting images of a Middle Eastern bazaar appear in muted colors that fade in and out. The morning begins slowly, as merchants get ready for the day ahead. Somewhere in the distance the bazaar begins and the marketplace builds in activity and excitement. The market activity peaks and gradually subsides, and the aftermath gives way to the evening. The dreamer is finally transported away from the Casbah with memories of the day's excitement trailing behind.  -Jeffrey Snedeker, November 2016

Grade: 4

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Written in 1966 and edited by Randall Faust, 2013.

Grade: 5

Three Pieces - I, Randall Faust, horn

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Intermediate to Advanced Studies-a continuation and development of studies from Volume I. Contents include Descending Scale Studies; Legato and Articulation Studies; Smooth and rhythmically sophisticated Melodies in Major, Minor, and Modal Scales; Lip Slurs; and Marvin Howe's previously unpublished articles on the Exhale Warm-Up and the Squeak Buzz.

Grade: 4-6

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Intermediate to Advanced Studies continuing the style of Marvin Howe's Method for French Horn. Contents include Long-tone Duets, Descending Scale Studies, Articulation Studies, Lip Slurs in a variety of Registers and Rhythms, Smooth Melodies and Duets in Major, Minor, and Modal Scales, studies in Transposition, and Marvin Howe's previously unpublished paper presented at the 1991 International Horn Symposium: The Refinement of Tone Production. Grade: 4-6

Audio for Long Tone Duets: Track 1: F Major Track 2: D minor

Additional Long Tone Duets

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A dramatic composition for Horn Octet accompanied by four-part Horn Choir.  Commissioned and premiered by Dr. Keith Johnson and The University of Arizona Horn Ensemble.

Grade: 5

This recording is from the performance by The University of Arizona Horn Ensemble conducted by Professor Daniel Katzen with The International Horn Symposium Horn Choir at the 40th International Horn Symposium at The University of Denver in 2008.

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Recorded by Chicago Symphony Hornist David Griffin. Includes Call and Response for Solo Horn.

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