Course of Study for Tuba

Micah Everett, DMAAssistant Professor of Low Brass

University of Louisiana at Monroe Division of Music

This listing is intended to provide a “general idea” of materials that students might expect to encounter during their tuba studies at

ULM. It is neither a rigid formula nor an exhaustive listing. The methods listed first for each year will most likely be used in weekly

lessons. Students will most likely study one or perhaps two solo works each semester, except when a degree recital is being prepared.

The solo listings include representative works for each year, though works not on this list may be assigned—no attempt has been made

to make this list entirely comprehensive. The works listed for all levels are of high quality, and advanced students should not hesitateto program “easier” works from earlier levels to compliment the more difficult works on a recital program. Orchestral excerpts will be

emphasized for performance majors more than for non-performance majors, though all students can expect some exposure to this

material.

Freshman

•  Warm-Up and Maintenance Routine for Tuba (student’s primary tuba), Level 2 (Everett)

•  All “Revolving” and “Three Times Fast” Scale/Arpeggio Patterns

•  Methods:

o  Complete Method for Tuba (Arban/Jacobs) or Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium (Arban/Alessi,

Bowman)o   Legato Etudes for Tuba (Bordogni/Jacobs) or The Complete Solfeggi—Legato Etudes for Tuba (Concone/Jacobs)o   Low Etudes for Tuba (Snedecor)

o  Seventy Studies for BBb Bass (Blazhevich/King)

•  Solos:o   Introduction and Dance (Barat) o  Sonata for Tuba (Boda)

o  Sonata I (Galliard/Marx, Clark)

o  Suite (Haddad)

o  Suite (Hartley)o  Tuba Suite (Jacob)

o  Sonata No. 1 (Marcello/Little)

o  Sonata No. 5 (Marcello/Little)o  Vocalise (Rachmaninov/Allen)

o   Andante (Tcherepnin)

Sophomore

•  Warm-Up and Maintenance Routine for Tuba (student’s primary tuba), Level 2 (Everett)

•  All Major and Minor Scales and Arpeggios, Chromatic Scale

•  Methods:o  Complete Method for Tuba (Arban/Jacobs) or Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium (Arban/Alessi,

Bowman)

o   Legato Etudes for Tuba (Bordogni/Jacobs) or The Complete Solfeggi—Legato Etudes for Tuba (Concone/Jacobs)o   Low Etudes for Tuba (Snedecor)

o  Seventy Studies for BBb Bass (Blazhevich/King)

o  Sixty Studies (Kopprasch/King)

•  Solos:

o  Waltz for Mippy III  (Bernstein) o  Concertino (Curnow) o  Fantasia (Curnow) o   Ricercar  (Gabrieli/Morris) o  Sonata V  (Galliard/Marx, Clark) o  Sonata (Hartley) o  Sonatina (Hartley) o  Concertantes Allegro (Lebedev) o  Concerto No. 1 (Lebedev) o  Six Studies in English Folksong (Vaughan Williams) 

•  Orchestral Excerpts o  “Hungarian March” from The Damnation of Faust  (Berlioz) 

 

Course of Study for Tuba (Everett), p.2

o   Romeo and Juliet  (Berlioz) o  Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz) o   An American in Paris (Gershwin) o  The Planets (Holst) o  Symphony No. 1 (Mahler) o  Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) o  Ein Heldenleben (Strauss) 

Junior  

•  Warm-Up and Maintenance Routine for Tuba (student’s primary tuba), Level 2 OR Level 3 (Everett)

•  Secondary Routine for Tuba (student’s secondary tuba) (Everett)

•  All previously studied scales and arpeggios

•  Methods:

o   Low Etudes for Tuba (Snedecor)

o  Seventy Studies for BBb Bass (Blazhevich/King)o  Sixty Studies (Kopprasch/King)

o   Legato Etudes for Tuba (Bordogni/Jacobs) or The Complete Solfeggi—Legato Etudes for Tuba (Concone/Jacobs)

•  Solos:

o  Cello Suites (Bach/Becker) o   New Orleans (Bozza) o   Andante and Rondo (Capuzzi/Catelinet) o  Concerto (Ewazen) o  Concerto (Gregson) o  Concertino (Koetsier) o  Sonatina (Koetsier) o  Conzert  (Madsen) o  Sonata (Madsen) o  Serenade No. 12 (Persichetti) o  Concerto No. 1 (Strauss) o  Sonata (Wilder) o  Suite No. 1 “Effie” (Wilder) o  Concertino (Wilhelm) 

•  Orchestral Excerpts o  Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)

o  Symphonic Metamorphosis (Hindemith) o  Fountains of Rome (Respighi) o   Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)

o  Till Eulenspiegel (Strauss)

o  Petroushka (Stravinsky)o  Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (Wagner)o  “Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre (Wagner)

Senior, Graduate 

•  Warm-Up and Maintenance Routine for Tuba (student’s primary tuba), Level 2 OR Level 3 (Everett)

•  Secondary Routine for Tuba (student’s secondary tuba) (Everett)

•  All previously studied scales and arpeggios

•  Methods:o   Low Etudes for Tuba (Snedecor)

o  Seventy Studies for BBb Bass (Blazhevich/King)

o  Sixty Studies (Kopprasch/King)o   Legato Etudes for Tuba (Bordogni/Jacobs) or The Complete Solfeggi—Legato Etudes for Tuba (Concone/Jacobs)

•  Solos:o  Canto VII  (Adler) o  Cello Suites (Bach/Becker) o  Concertino (Bozza) o  Sonata (Eccles/Fernand) o  Concerto (Ellerby) o  Sonate (Hindemith) o  Encounters II  (Kraft) 

 

Course of Study for Tuba (Everett), p.3

o  Capriccio (Penderecki) o  Three Miniatures (Plog) o  Concerto (Spillman) o  Être ou ne pas Être (Tomasi) o  Concerto (Vaughan Williams) o  Sonata (White) o  Concerto (Williams) 

•  Orchestral Excerpts o  Symphony No. 7  (Bruckner)

o  Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7  (Mahler)

o  Symphony No. 5 (Mahler) o  Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky/Ravel) o  Symphony No. 6  (Persichetti) o   Romeo and Juliet  (Prokofiev) o  Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

o  Ein Faust Overture (Wagner) o  “Entry of the Gods into Valhalla” from Das Rheingold  (Wagner) o  Prelude to Die Meistersinger  (Wagner)