Transposition
This note is what you would finger on F Horn when transposing from E horn: [Note Wheel]
What is _____? [Down a minor 2nd]
Beethoven wrote this symphony's famous 4th Horn Solo for his friend Eduard Constantin Lewy who played fourth horn in the premiering orchestra.
What is The "Choral" (Ninth) Symphony?
This is the technical name of the joining of a player's lips to produce sound on a brass instrument.
What is an embouchure?
This composer wrote the likes of "Try this you donkey!" in the music of Joseph Leutgeb for the performance of his Horn Concerti.
Who is Mozart?
Name as many fingerings for a D in the staff that you can (50 points per correct fingering, Max 5)
1, 13, T12, T3, T2, 0
This note is what you would finger on F Horn when transposing from Eb horn: [Note Wheel]
What is ____? [Down a Major 2nd]
Dennis Brain, a famous British solo horn player of the early 20th-century credited with the long famous recordings of Mozart's Four Horn Concerti, died in 1957 at the age of 24 from this cause.
What is a car crash?
The term gestopft indicstes the horn player to do this motion with their right hand.
What is stopping?
In an interview, this 'Jedi' was found out to play the French horn in his younger days, saying "Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
Who is Ewan McGregor?
Name as many fingerings for a A in the staff that you can (100 points per correct fingering, Max 5)
12, 3, T0, T12, T3
This note is what you would finger on F Horn when transposing from D horn: [Note Wheel]
What is _____? [Down a minor 3rd]
Who is Phillip Farkas?
This is referred to as the open series of notes that occur naturally on a brass instrument with no use of the valves. Dr. Childers likes to say "If you can play this, you can play anything!" It is also what makes the horn so difficult to master.
What is the Harmonic Series?
Who is Richard Strauss?
Name as many fingerings for a C in the staff that you can (150 points per correct fingering, Max 5)
0, 1, 13, T0, T12, T13
This note is what you would finger on F Horn when transposing from C horn: [Note Wheel]
What is ____? [Down a Perfect 4th]
He is the Father of Richard Strauss.
Who is Franz Strauss?
This tool is often referred by the german word of Dämpfer.
What is a [straight] mute?
"I would have stolen a whole orchestra for you," was the line in response to this stolen item.
What is a Blue French Horn?
Name as many fingerings for a F# at the top of the staff that you can (200 points per correct fingering, Max 5)
2, 23, 12, 123, T2, T12
This note is what you would finger on F Horn when transposing from H horn: [Note Wheel]
What is _____? [Down a Tritone]
Helen Kotas, a well-known female horn player who rose to prominence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 1940's became this 'First.'
What is the First Female Principal Instrument?
This composer is credited with having first written for the technique known as "fluttertongue" in the tone poem "Don Quixote."
Who is Richard Strauss?
This famous composer (who also had a composer wife and a long-standing friendship with Johannes Brahms[who also had a great love for the horn]) said "The sound of the horn is the soul of the orchestra?" This same composer wrote the first piece for valved horn called Adagio und Allegro, as well as the famous four horn concerto Konzertstück.
Who is Robert Schumann?
Name as many fingerings for a B above the staff that you can (250 points per correct fingering, Max 5)
T2, T0, T12, T23, T13, T123, 2, 13