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Suggested EUPHONIUM and TROMBONE solos for students to use at Solo and
Ensemble Festivals: (Please check the current FBA list to make sure they are still on it!)
Solos that are Best for 6th Graders: (1st year players)
Air Noble Conqueror
Happy Song Pied Piper The Rooster Jacques Robert
Leonard B. Smith/Leonard Falcone
Edmund J. Siennicki
Forrest L. Buchtel
Edmund J. Siennicki
Edvard Grieg/G. E. Holmes
J.S. Bach/Ronald C. Dishinger
Forrest L. Buchtel
Alexander Borodin/Forrest L. Buchtel
Floyd O. Harris
Floyd O. Harris
Henry W. Petrie/Harold L. Walters
Floyd O. Harris
Henry W. Davis
David Uber
Bela Bartok/Floyd O. Harris
Frederick Handel/Allen Ostrander
Robert Schumann/G. E. Holmes
Charles Gounod/Harold L. Walters
Floyd O. Harris
Maurice Ravel/Ronald Dishinger
Clair W. Johnson
Georges Bizet/G. E. Holmes
Solos that are best for 7th graders:
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Minuet in G Minstrel Boy Polovetsian Dances
Sparkles
The Young Prince
Solos that are Best for 8th Graders:
Asleep in the Deep
Brass Bangles Carnival of Venice
Deep River
Evening in the country Honor and Arms
The Jolly Peasant
March of the Marionette
Ocean Beach Pavane Pour Infante Défunte
Red Canyons Toreador’s Song form Carmen
Solos that are Best for advanced 8th graders and 9th Graders:
Arioso (From Cantata No. 156) Concert Aria Concert Rondo (k. 371)
Fancy Free
Fantasy for Trombone Mirror Lake My Regards Prelude and Minuet
Rhapsody for Euphonium
Rondo Romanze
The Bride of the Waves Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Johann Sebastian Bach/H.R. Kent
W. A. Mozart/H. Voxman
W. A. Mozart/Jay Ernst
Clay Smith
James Curnow
Edward Montgomery
Edward Llewellyn
Arcangelo Corelli/Richard E. Powell
James Curnow
W. A. Mozart/Ronald Dishinger
Gustav Cords
Herbert L. Clarke
Edwin Franko Goldman/Theo M. Tobani
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Solos that are Best for 10th and 11th graders:
Allegro Spiritoso
Andante Et Allegro
Andante and Rondo
Annie Laurie Beautiful Colorado
Carnival of Venice
Concerto
Concerto Rondo (Bassoon concerto mvt. 3)
Dance Suite (Unaccompanied) Devonshire Gates
Grand concerto
Introduction and Dance Phantasy Piece Op. 10, #2
Minuet- Scherzo
Romanza Appassionata Scene De Concert
Solo De Concours
Sonata (any one)
Sonata in F major
Sonata in F minor
Suite for Baritone
Toccata in the Style of Frescobaldi
Starlight (Waltz Caprice)
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann
Jean Baptiste Senaille/Leonard Falcone
Ropartz
Antonio Capuzzi/Philip Catelinet
Arthur Pryor/Robert Geisler
Joseph De Luca
Herbert L. Clarke/Arthur Brandenburg
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
W. A. Mozart/Richard Fote
Brian Isreal
Roland Brom
Friedebald Grafe
J. Ed. Barat/Glenn Smith
Burnet Tuthill
Joseph De Luca
Carl Maria von Weber/P. X. Laube
Max F. Denmark
Paul Veronge de la Nux
Johann Ernst Galliard/Karl Heinz Fussl/Brown
Benedetto Marcello/Allen Ostrander
Georg Philipp Telemann/Allen Ostrander
Don Haddad
Gaspar Cassado/Keith Brown (tenor clef)
Arthur Pryor
Robert Schumann/William Davis
Solos that are Best for advanced 12 graders and college students:
Allegro et Finale
Andante et Allegro
Believe me, If All those Endearing Young Charms
Blue Bells of Scotland Carnival of Venice
Concert Fantasie
Concertino Op. 4
Concertino #1 in B flat Major Concerto Mvt. 1 (K. 191 for Bassoon) Euphonium Concerto Fantasia
Fantasia di Concerto Introduction and Polonaise
Lyric Suite
Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 Pantomime
Ricercare #1 (Unaccompanied) Sonata for Euphonium Sonata in C Major
Symphonic Variants
Eugéne Bozza
J. E. Barat
Simone Mantia/David Werden
Arthur Pryor
J. B. Arban/Edwin Franko Goldman
Gustav Cords
Ferdinand David
Julius Klengel/Leonard Falcone
W. A. Mozart/Allen Ostrander
Joseph Horovitz
Gordon Jacob
Edoardo Boccalari
Max Denmark
Donald H. White
Alexandre Guilmant/E. Falaguerra
Phillip Sparke
Andrea Gabrieli
David Uber
Johann Friedrich Fasch/Fromme
James Curnow
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Suggested solos for euphonium soloist and Band:
Andante et Allegro
Believe me, If All those Endearing Young Charms
Blue Bells of Scotland Beautiful Colorado
Carnival of Venice
Danny Boy
Fantasia
Fantasia di Concerto Fantasy for Trombone Introduction and Dance Mirror Lake Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 My Regards Napoli Rhapsody for Euphonium
Symphonic Variants
The Bride of the Waves J. Ed. Barat/Loren Marsteller
Simone Mantia/David Werden
Arthur Pryor/Pearson Joseph De Luca
Herbert L. Clarke
Traditional/Lewis Buckley
Gordon Jacob
Edoardo Boccalari
James Curnow
J. Ed. Barat
Edward Montgomery
Alexandre Guilmant/Shepard
Edward Llewellyn
Herman Bellstedt
James Curnow
James Curnow
Herbert L. Clarke
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Suggested TUBA solos for students to use at Solo and Ensemble Festivals:
(Please check the current FBA list to make sure they are still on it!)
Solos that are Best for 6th Graders: (1st year players)
Happy Song The Rooster The Spartan
The Tubadour
Edmund J. Siennicki
Edmund J. Siennicki
William Bell
Richard Fote
Edvard Grieg/G. E. Holmes
J.S. Bach/Ronald C. Dishinger
William Bell
Handel/Swanson
Floyd O Harris
Henry W. Petrie/Harold L. Walters
Vandercook
Bizet/ William Bell
Spiritual/ Hall
Handel/William Bell
L. Zaninelli
Robert Schumann/ Don Little
Robert Schumann/G. E. Holmes
James Barnes
Georges Bizet/G. E. Holmes
Solos that are best for 7th graders:
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Minuet in G Russian Melody
Bourree
Kings' Jester Solos that are Best for 8th Graders:
Asleep in the Deep
Bombastoso Carmen Excerpts
Deep River
Honor and Arms
Peg Leg Pete Sailor's Song The Jolly Peasant
The Nervous Turkey Rag
Toreador’s Song form Carmen
Solos that are Best for advanced 8th graders and 9th Graders:
Barbarossa
Earle Of Oxford's Marche
Introduction and Dance Polka Giocosa The Jolly Farmer Goes to Town The Message Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Samsonian Polka
Sound an Alarm
Barnhouse
William Byrd/ Ronald Dishinger
Louis Scarmolin
Pergolesi/ James Barnes
Schumann/ William Bell
Brooks/ Forrest L. Buchtel
DeLamater
George McQuaide/James Barnes
Handel/James Barnes
Solos that are Best for 10th and 11th graders:
Allegro Spiritoso
Emmett's Lullaby
Largo and Presto
Suite for Tuba Thrice Happy the Monarch, from "Alexander Balus"
Jean Baptiste Senaille/Robert Thurston
G. E. Holmes
Marcello/ Don Little
Don Haddad
Handel/ Winston Morris
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Solos that are Best for 12 graders:
Andante and Rondo (from Concerto for Double Bass)
Concertino for Tuba and Band Concerto in A Minor Columbia
Introduction and Dance Lento Sonata in F Major
Variations on a Theme of Judas Maccabeus
Antonio Capuzzi/Catelenet
Frank Bencriscutto
Vivaldi /Allen Ostrander
Rollinson/Forrest Buchtel
Barat/Smith
G. E. Holmes
Telemann
Handel/ Beethoven/ William Bell
Solos that are Best for advanced 12 graders and college students:
Air and Bouree Carnival of Venice
Concertino
Concertino
Concerto Etude Op. 49 Concerto for Tuba
Concerto for tuba and Band
Concerto in One Movement
Encounters II Fantasy for Tuba (unaccompanied)
Morning Song Praeludium, Chorale, Variations & Fugue
Ricercar
Serenade No. 12, Op. 88
Six Studies in English Folk Song
Sonata Sonata Sonata for Tuba
Sonata for Tuba and Piano
Sonatina
Suite No. 1 (Effie Suite)
Three Miniatures
Tuba Suite
Two Pieces from Children's Corner
Vocalise
Bach/William Bell
Arban
James Curnow
Rolf Wilhelm
Goedicke/Emilson
Vaughan Williams
Edward Gregson
Lebedev/Allen Ostrander
William Kraft
Malcolm Arnold
Roger Kellaway
Muller
Gabrieli /Winston Morris
Vincent Persichetti
Vaughan Williams
Thomas Beversdorf
Paul Hindemith
Bruce Broughton
Arthur Frackenpohl
Jan Koetsier
Alec Wilder
Anthony Plog
Gordon Jacob
Debussy/Frackenpohl
Rachmaninov
Suggested solos for tuba soloist and Band:
Blue Bells of Scotland Capriccio
Carnival of Venice
Concertino
Concertino for Tuba and Band Concerto for tuba and Band
Concerto for Tuba
Introduction and Dance Suite for Tuba Tuba Rhapsody
Arthur Pryor/Alan Lourens
Rodney Newton
Arban/Buckley
James Curnow
Frank Bencriscutto
Edward Gregson
Vaughan Williams
Barat/ Smith
Don Haddad
Grundman