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Etudes

Etudes
Etudes are short studies that are built to make you a more well-rounded horn player and musician. They come in a variety of construction types with many different outcomes. Some are progressive and cover all types of issues, while some are collections that target specific problems head on. If you are just starting to dive into etudes, the following are a great place to begin:
Maxime Alphonse - 200 Progressive Studies
Alphonse created a set of 200 etudes over the course of 6 books. They start simple with a focus on detail and begin to progress and expand in range and difficulty over time. You can find them online for free at: https://imslp.org/wiki/200_%C3%89tudes_nouvelles_m%C3%A9lodiques_et_progressives_pour_cor_(Alphonse,_Maxime)
Max P Pottag - Preparatory Melodies to Solo Work for French Horn
Pottag’s books are also progressive, but move at a quicker pace. His studies are created around challenges faced in our solo and orchestra repertoire. These are great for a more advanced student that is just now looking at etudes for the first time.
Georg Kopprasch - 60 Etudes
Kopprasch is another progressive book, but starts with a wider range and gets fairly hard early on. He focuses a lot on dynamic contrast and articulations across the full range of the horn. They are great because they can serve as studies for further work on the horn such as transposition. The following link is to a free pdf: http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/6/6a/IMSLP239696-PMLP30686-Kopprasch_60_Selected_Studies.pdf

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