Flow Studies for Horn by Nancy Sullivan is appropriate for all levels of horn players.

56 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on the music stand.

Flow Studies is a companion book to The Breathing Book. In Flow Studies, players are encouraged to improve their phrasing by playing each phrase in one breath, reflecting the crescendo and diminuendo markings. Flow Studies is divided into Slow, Medium and Fast phrasing studies; for maximum benefit, play a few chapters from The Breathing Book followed by Slow, Medium and Fast Flow Studies.

Preface by Douglas Hill, Emeritus Professor of Music-Horn University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Nancy Sullivan has compiled and created a wonderful set of exercises which emphasize the one thing horn players are expected to be able to do better than all the other brasses, and that’s legato playing. To develop a velvet-smooth, effortless coordination of our airflow, throat and tongue fluctuations, aperture fluidity, and precise valve actions takes awareness, serious listening, and concentrated time. With these varied and effective exercises, along with the many suggested and recommended variants, any intermediate through professional player will be able to greatly improve their legato prowess. Along the way, significant pitch patterns, including various scales and arpeggios in major and minor keys will, with time, help to solidify important and useful finger memories. The suggested, imitative “call and response” approach between a teacher and a younger student will be quite an effective use for these studies. And since there is no way that any set of exercises can address every player’s needs, these 42 studies could, perhaps should serve as a catalyst for the creative performer to take these well designed patterns and modify the tempos, dynamics, articulations, and pitch requirements, and increase the ranges to suit their own needs and abilities. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, discusses the idea that by presenting ourselves with tasks or challenges that are “neither too difficult nor too simple for our abilities” we can optimize our talents and experience a deeper sense of enjoyment. With this publication of Flow Studies for Horn, we have an effective set of enjoyable tasks, brought to us by a wonderfully enthusiastic horn teacher, which just might provide those who accept the challenges with the optimal experience of an even more flowing legato."