Horn
SKU:
FG.55011-774-7
Composed by Tommi
Hyytinen. Classical,
contemporary,
pedagogical. Book.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-774-7. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-774-7).
ISBN
9790550117747.
Tomm
i Hyytinen (DMus, Finnish
horn player and
pedagogue) writes about
this
collections:
I
composed these 30 Etudes
for Low Horn to be at the
same time instructive and
at the same time fun and
interesting to play. The
etudes consist similar
technical challenges than
a low horn player
confronts in orchestra.
The etudes also encompass
many of the technical
challenges that a horn
player encounters in
chamber music and in solo
repertoire, especially
since many of the touring
soloists in the 18th and
19th centuries were
Cor-Basse players. Some
of these etudes are not
the most serious in
nature in the horn
literature, but
nevertheless they
challenge and develop the
playing technique in wide
variety of ways. The
ambitus of the etudes is
very virtuosic,
encompassing almost four
octaves. Some of the
etudes are more melodic
and concentrate in
lyrical phrasing,
legato-playing, sound and
intonation, others
contain technically
tricky passages,
articulations and
fingerings. Rhythmic
accuracy and
‘finding the
groove' is of utmost
importance in all of the
etudes. The etudes
develop the sound and
control of the low
register of the horn and
flexibility between the
registers. These 30
Concert Etudes work as
individual pieces or as a
set of pieces. You can
for example choose a set
of etudes and perform
them in a concert or
matinée. I hope you
have as much fun
practising and playing
these etudes as I had
composing them..
