Horn Music
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$25.00A 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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$15.00New critical performing edition prepared from the manuscripts by Travis Bennett and Andrew Adams
Grade: 5
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$17.00A wonderful and imaginative collection of seasonal favorites played by Aaron Brask, horns, keyboard, and percussion and Kayo Ishimaru-Fleisher, harp. We also offer Aaron's arrangements: Holiday Music for Horn Quartet or Horn Choir TRACK LISTING • Once in Royal David's City • Carol of the Bells • Away in a Manger • The Christmas Song • How Far Is It To Bethlehem • O, Come, Little Children • Jingle Bells • Frosty The Snowman • Mary Had a Baby • Silver Bells • O Christmas Tree • Sleep of the Child Jesus • Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! • Ding Dong Merrily on High • O Come, All Ye Faithful • We Three Kings • Santa Claus is Coming to Town • Deck the Hall • Silent Night • Joy to the World • Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly • Good Christian Men, Rejoice • Jolly Old St Nicholas • I Saw Three Ships • White Christmas • O Little One • I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus • My Sheep Were Grazing • Beautiful Savior / Angels We Have Heard on High High • Winter Wonderland • In the Bleak Midwinter • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day • O Little Town of Bethlehem • We wish you a Merry Christmas • Auld Lang Syne
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Music for the Horns of the Emerald City for Horn Quartet or Horn Choir was composed for Lydia Van Dreel Horn Professor at The University of Oregon and her vision, as Host, of the International Horn Symposium 52 in 2020. This two movement work depicts two very natural and healthy activities one can associate with the Horn Symposium and with Lydia Van Dreel: The Yoga Class and The Joggers. Grade: 4-6 Learn More -
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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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Horn and 4 percussion. Learn More -
$25.00Commissioned by Randy Gardner for a compact disc in memory of Philip Farkas--on Summit Records.
Grade: 4-5
Mvt I: Prelude Mvt. II: Scherzo Mvt. III: Romanza Mvt. IV: Rondo Learn More -
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A wonderful collection of fifteen Holiday Songs arranged for two horns by Randall E. Faust. Playing Horn Duets has provided some of the most enjoyable moments for me in Horn lessons-both as a student and as a teacher. A couple of years ago, during the Covid-pandemic lockdown, I recorded several of the following duets as part of the project for the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. The recordings of the duets were used as part of a special KGS project that provided Holiday music in support of front-line medical workers. Subsequently, some of my students have also enjoyed playing these. These duets are being published so that more hornists may perform them. I hope you find these arrangements interesting and enjoyable! -Randall E. Faust Table of Contents We Gather Together Come Ye Thankful People Come, Raise the Song of Harvest Home Rock of Ages, Let Our Song (Mooz Tsur) While Shepherds Watched Their Flock It Came Upon A Midnight Clear The First Noel Here We Come a Wassailing Kalanda Christouyennon Come All Ye Faithful God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen! In Dulci Jubilo The Huron Carol Jingle Bells Joy to The World Silent Night Learn More -
$10.00This 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 -
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$9.99Based on the most popular all-time etude collection for horn, 60 Etudes by Georg Kopprasch, Rhythm Kopprasch uses the original Kopprasch etude’s pitches, but applies them to a vastly more challenging array of rhythms, meters, accents, and styles.
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In 1994, I was commissioned by Randy Gardner to compose a Quartet for Four Horns for a compact disc he was producing for Summit Records in collaboration with Michael Hatfield, Douglas Hill, and David Krehbiel. This Romanza was one of the four movements of that Quartet. In the Fall of 2016, I created this horn and piano setting of the Romanza for a series of recital performances, I was planning for the 2016-2017 academic year. -Randall Faust
Grade: 4
Recorded by Thomas and Tricia Jöstlein, horns and Yeon-Kynug Kim, piano on the CD: SINGING SMOOTH MELODIES ON THE HORN
Tricia Jostlein, horn and Minjung Seo, piano May 2018. The performance of this piece begins at 18:45.
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Composed in honor of Roger Collins, hornist with the Camerata Woodwind Quintet from 1966-1997. As recorded on the compact disk - Fantasies on American Themes. Recorded by Andrew Pelletier on MSR Classics 1168: Celebration: Horn Music of Randall Faust Grade: 5
Rondo for Horn and Piano by Randall Faust, Randall Faust, horn Andrew Pelletier, horn and Minjung Seo, piano May 2018. The performance of Rondo for Horn and Piano begins at 32:40 . Learn More -
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Recorded by Andrew Pelletier on MSR Classics 1168: Celebration: Horn Music of Randall Faust
Grade: 5-6
Rondo from the Horn Concerto for Horn and Piano, Andrew Pelletier, horn Learn More -
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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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MSR Classics 1168: Celebration: Horn Music of Randall FaustGrade: 5 Scherzo from the Horn Concerto-Andrew Pelletier, horn
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$10.95Written 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 -
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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 Learn More -
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Sights and Sounds of the Symposium was composed for Robert Palmer and Vanessa Montelongo on the occasion of the 52nd International Horn Symposium. The first movement, The Bell Tower at Sunrise, is an ever-developing set of variations over an ever-developing repeated thematic motive. A Rondo for the Morning Run, the second movement, is based on the Rondo from the Quartet for Four Horns by Randall Faust and uses the pitch pattern: sol-do-re-sol.
Grade 4-6
Recorded by Thomas and Tricia Jöstlein, horns and Yeon-Kynug Kim, piano on the CD: SINGING SMOOTH MELODIES ON THE HORN
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The songs of Grieg are part of a series of arrangements for a wide group of hornists-from developing players looking for a work for a festival performance-to the professional hornist searching for a lyrical character piece for a recital. This set also includes works by Beach, Cui, and Humperdinck. These arrangements are of moderate technical difficulty and are meant to test numerous aspects of horn playing outside of high playing. These songs by Grieg are the simplest in difficulty of this set of arrangements. Grieg's Children's songs were picked to teach a student how to approach playing with a pianist. Not only is the horn melody always doubled in the piano, but the arrangements are also meant to be simple collaborations. The range of each piece keeps to a middle-low register so that any student, almost regardless of time put into the instrument, could begin working on one of the movements. The keys are simple, whether in sharp or flat keys. Grade: 2-3 Learn More
