Vocalise No. 104

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bordogni’s vocalises entered low-brass study through the trombone tradition and have become daily language for euphonium players. No. 104 is substantial enough to stand as an audition selection while retaining the method’s central purpose: make the instrument sustain a bel-canto line.

The study exposes joins between registers, breaths that interrupt syntax, and pitch that changes with dynamic or vowel. Its repetitions and sequences should intensify or release rather than merely restart. The player has to imagine text even though none is printed.

Study on Euphonium Studio

Vocalise No. 104