Trumpet Technic

An outstanding collegiate syllabus developed by Clifford Lillya while at the University of Michigan and revised and augmented in the 1990s under Lillya's supervision.

Basic Skills (Lip Slurs, S ingle and Multiple Tonguing, Intervals, Finger Coordination, Trills): Applied Music Theory (Major and Minor Scales and Triads, Dominant Seventh Chords, Diminished Seventh Chords, Augmented Chords , Perfect Fourths and Fifths, Sevenths, Chromatic, Whole Tone, Modal and Pentatonic Scales): Orchestra (transposition tables and twelve orchestral excerpts running the entire gamut of transpositi ons you'll meet in the orchestra) & Band Routine (two Sousa Marches): Recital & Chamber Music Literature (a chronology of composers and players important in the history of the trumpet and excerpt s from Bach, Mozart, Handel, Purcell, Clarke, Haydn's entire Concerto in Eb both in urtext and as edited by Rob Roy McGregor, Puccini, Schumann, Vidal: Trumpet Ensembles (C. P.E. Bach March and Processional for three trumpets and timpani and Anonymous Grand Trumpeter March for four trumpets and timpani): extensive Glossary of Foreign Musical Terms: and useful Web Site listings.

Lillya' s book presents unique and penetrating practice/testing material and links together many different pedagogical materials by citing extensive additional sources of practice material for each diffe