A Singing Approach to Horn Playing: Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony Training for Horn

Natalie Douglass Grana's A Singing Approach to Horn Playing teaches fundamental pitch sense through songs, inner hearing, transposition, and polyphonic exercises, culminating in challenging melodies and standard etude, solo, and orchestral horn repertoire. Horn parts are provided with important lines from the orchestra or accompaniment, transposed to be sung and played on the horn.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Natalie Douglass Grana's book, A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, is a comprehensive guide for developing the fundamental sense of pitch essential for playing the horn. The book begins with simple songs to sing on solfège, buzz on the mouthpiece, and play on the horn, followed by inner hearing, transposition, and polyphonic exercises. Readers learn to fluidly hear the notes on the page before playing them through sequential exercises with songs, improvisation, stick notation, and duets. Training continues with progressively challenging melodies, including canons and vocal etudes (solfeggi) like those of Giuseppe Concone. Hornists apply their musicianship skills to standard etude, solo, and orchestral horn repertoire, with horn parts provided with important lines from the orchestra or accompaniment, transposed to also be sung and played on the horn. Accompanying rhythmic and harmonic exercises enable performers to learn to hear the parts together as they play. Through a wide-ranging synthesis of theory, practical advice, and exercises, Douglass Grana puts forth a crucial guide for a new generation of horn players and burgeoning musicians seeking to improve and perfect their sense of pitch.

Dimension: 279 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197603574