WORKING:

The rise of the tuba as a solo instrument: Tracking the journey from oompah performance to
serious repertoire

Background
Discuss the tuba currently and how it is increasingly having repertoire composed, and has an
increasing number of high profile performance.

Rational:
Why do you have a personal interest in the tuba, and track your tuba journey and your
interest in the contemporary literature.

Research objective:
To investigate the rise of the tuba as a solo instrument

Research
Qualitative research

Research Methodology;
Collect date via articles, online sources, books, post-grad research

Literature review
Here you provide an overview of all that has been written about this topic

Conceptul framework:
Solo tuba
Extended techniques

Chapters:

2. History of the tuba

3. The tuba as a solo instrument and prominent current day perforners
4. Suggest repertoire for solo tuba, and also look at whether there are any works by SA
composers for solo tuba
4. Analysis and suggestions
What the research has revealed about the tuba as a solo instrument
Your assessment of the SA situation, and what can be done to increase interest in
composing and performing tuba repertoire

Reference List