French Horn Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767342 Composed by Lyons Music Services. Concert,Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Lyons Music Services #3512417. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767342). This movement opens with a similar idea to the previous two, but at a fairly quick Allegro (quarter = 132) and using arpeggios in triplets to drive the music through. The dotted half noes with crescs at the end of the phrase should really be pushed into brassiness at the end of the cresc.I ask the player to do rip glisses, some of them difficult to achieve, and also gestopft and 'half stopped'. Although these are 'hand horn' techniques that survive from before the invention of valves, they are still usefull to create a different effect than from standard mutes. Where these techniques are asked for, a silvery, ethereal tone is required as a contrast to the brash 'hunting hoirn' style of the outer sections of the movement. The middle part of this movement is quasi a cadenza. The stopping instructions are intended to have an effect on the tuning as well as the timbre of the notes. The first pair of each group of three should be slurred smoothly.The final section reprises the beginning of the movement, but at breakneck speed. quarter = 144 is advisory only. The faster the better.This movement again makes use of the extremes of the horn's range and makes high demands on stamina and tonguing.
