The Practical Guide is a complete method including the basics of great horn playing through comprehensive exercises and discussions on all aspects of a musical approach to the french horn. Music Educators will find valuable suggestions as to choice of mouthpieces, warm-up exercises, exercises for development of range, and many other areas of technique involving student musicians.
Method for French Horn Playing, Vol. I, by Milan Yancich
Yancich’s beginning method starts french horn players out right! Simple and tested by time, this method has been used by educators successfully since the early 1960’s. Ideal for the beginning French Horn student and especially useful for teaching college students who are enrolled in Music Education horn classes.
Method for French Horn Playing, Vol. II, by Milan Yancich
Yancich’s second method seamlessly continues where Vol. I leaves off, taking the student horn player through more exercises and new techniques at an appropriate pace and in a logical order.
Grand Theoretical & Practical Method for the Valve Hornby Joseph Schantl
Here’s Schantl’s original method for valve horn which fulfills the requirements necessary for proper development of the rudiments of sound French Horn playing. The exercises are written to thoroughly acquaint the student with all the major and minor keys. Special exercises are written for each interval of the scale and each study further develops the performer’s skill in rhythm and phrasing. The student is also exposed to the low register where he learns to play with surprising facility.
Kling Horn- Schule, by H. Kling
This is a “classic reprint” of H. Kling’s original method for the natural and the valve horn. Kling says he begins with the Natural or Stop-Horn in order to help students obtain a thorough mastery in horn playing for the purpose of acquiring the true quality of tone characteristic of the instrument.
An Illustrated Advanced Method for French Horn Playing, by William C. Robinson; edited by Philip Farkas
This method is intended as a guide for advanced students of the horn with materials included to help students establish a good direction in their efforts and also to serve as a helpful guide in the avoidance or correction of faulty fundamental playing habits.
A Photo Study of 40 Virtuoso Horn Players Embouchres, by Philip Farkas
Included in this study by Philip Farkas are life-size, highly detailed photographs of some of the great horn players’ embouchures of the 20th century from all over the world. They show each embouchure in high, middle and low registers. A diagram at the side of each photo shows the direction of the air-column.