Applied Music (Performance) Audition Requirements

Applied Music (Performance) Concentration Audition Requirements

BRASS

Trumpet 

1. Scales and arpeggios
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Brandt: No. 1 or 2
• Charlier: Etudes
• Gates:  Odd Meter, Etudes

3. A minimum of ten minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Goedicke: Con. Etude, 1st page
• Haydn: Concerto, 1st & 2nd movement
• Hindemith: Sonata, 1st movement
• Kennan:  Sonata, 1st movement

4. One Orchestral Excerpt chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Mussorgsky / Ravel:  Pictures at an Exhibition (Promenade)
• Handel:  The Trumpet Shall Sound (Messiah)

5. Sight Reading

Benchmarking:  Some listed repertoire are found in The Carnegie Hall/Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus for Grades 9 and 10.

French Horn

1. Scales
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Maxime-Alphonse:  200 Modern Horn Etudes
• Kopprash:  60 Studies

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Beethoven: Sonata
• Glazounov:  Reveries
• Heiden: Sonata
• Hindemith: Sonata
• Mozart: Concerto No. 2
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts such as Handel:  Water Music

4. Sight Reading

Tenor Trombone

1. Scales: All majors and natural, harmonic, and melodic minors, two octaves, in quarter notes at ♩=100
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bordogni:  Melodious Etudes
• Snidero:  Jazz Conception

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• David: Concertino for Trombone, Op. 4
• Davison: Sonata
• Larsson: Concertino
• Serocki: Sonatina
• Sulek: Sonata (Vox Gabrieli)
• Jazz repertoire from The Real Book, vol. 1

4. Sight Reading

Bass Trombone

1. Scales: All majors and natural, harmonic, and melodic minors, two octaves, in quarter notes at ♩=100
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bordogni:  Melodious Etudes
• Snidero:  Jazz Conception

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Defaye: Deux Danses
• Jacob: Cameos
• Lebedev: Concerto in One Movement
• Tomasi: Être ou ne pas être!
• Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong
• Jazz repertoire from The Real Book, vol. 1

4. Sight Reading

Tuba

1. Scales and arpeggios
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Blazhevich:  70 Studies
• Bordogni:  43 Bel Canto Studies
• Kopprasch:  60 Selected Studies

3. A minimum of 10 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Mozart:  Romance and Rondo
• Vaughan Williams:  Six Studies in English Folk Song
• Lebedev:  Concerto in One Movement
• Strauss:  Concerto, Op. 11
• Beversdorf:  Sonata for Bass Tuba and Piano
• Haddad:  Suite for Tuba

4. One orchestral excerpt chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Brahms: Academic Festival Overture (beginning at 379)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (1st movement, rehearsal #20)
• Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (1st movement, beginning m. 35) Scales

5. Sight Reading

PERCUSSION

1. Be able to meet the Music Teacher Preparation audition requirements for Snare Drum and two-Mallet Marimba 

PLUS

2. Choose two of the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:
3. Snare Drum:

• Delecluse: Twelve Etudes for Snare Drum
• Colgrass:  Six Unaccompanied Solos for Snare Drum

2. 4-Mallet Marimba: 

• Musser Etudes for Marimba: Op. 6, #8,  #9, or #10
• Stout Etudes Book One

3. Timpani: 

• Firth: The Solo Timpanist, No. I, II, or III
• Bergamo: Four Pieces for Timpani
• Carter: March
• Carter: Canaries

4. Multiple Percussion: 

• Kraft: French Suite 
• Kraft: Morris Dance 
• Kraft: English Suite

3. Sight-reading

PIANO

12-15 minutes of Music including:  

1. A Piece from the Baroque or earlier than Baroque periods. Examples: J.S. Bach Preludes;  or J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue from " Well Tempered Clavier", book I and II;  or any J.S. Bach Toccata; or any movements of J.S. Bach Partita, French Suite or English suite; or D. Scarlatti sonata
2. Allegro movement of a classical sonata. Examples: L.van Beethoven op.2, #1 or W.A. Mozart K.332, or any first or last movements of comparable or greater difficulty; or any complete Theme and Variations by  L.van Beethoven or W.A. Mozart
3. A Romantic or Contemporary Work. Examples: E. Grieg lyric pieces, any F. Chopin Polonaises, any S. Rachmaninoff Preludes or Etudes, A.Ginastera " Danzas Argentinas", a movement of any Romantic or Contemporary Concerto; or other works of  comparable or greater difficulty
4. Sight Reading
5. Scales, All major and minor scales, hands together, two or more octaves up and down.

Benchmarking:

All listed repertoire is found in The Carnegie Hall/Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus for Grade 9, 10, or Performer’s Certificate

STRINGS

Violin  

1. Major and minor scales in 3 octaves
2. A fast movement chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Kabalevsky
• Mozart #4 or #5
• Bruch
• Lalo
• Mendelssohn

3. A movement of a solo Bach: Partita or Sonata
4. If needed, additional contrasting repertoire sufficient to have a total of 15 minutes of solo repertoire prepared. The additional repertoire could include the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Beethoven:  Romances, or any Sonata
• Copland:  Sonata
• Kreister:  Siciliene and Rigadon, Praeludium & Allegro, Tamborin Chinois
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

5. Sight Reading

Viola

1. Major and minor scales in 3 octaves
2. A fast movement chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Hoffmeister
• Stamitz
• Walton

3. A movement of  solo Bach (not from the first Suite)
4. If needed, additional contrasting repertoire sufficient to have a total of 15 minutes of solo repertoire prepared. The additional repertoire could include the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Brahms:  Sonatas
• Schubert:  Arpeggione Sonata
• Schumann:  Fairy Tales
• Vaughn Williams:  Suite
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

5. Sight Reading

Cello 

1. Major and minor scales in 3 and 4 octaves
2. A fast movement chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Haydn in C
• Boccherini
• Lalo
• Saint-Saëns

3. A movement of solo Bach  (not from the first Suite)
4. If needed, additional contrasting repertoire sufficient to have a total of 15 minutes of solo repertoire prepared. The additional repertoire could include the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Beethoven:  any Sonata
• Brahms:  Sonata No. 1
• Falla:  Suite populaire espangole
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

5. Sight Reading

Bass 

1. Major and minor scales in 2 or 3 octaves
2. A fast movement chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bottesini
• Dittersdorf
• Dragonetti
• Koussevitsky
• Vanhal

3. Additional contrasting repertoire sufficient to have a total of 15 minutes of solo repertoire prepared. The additional repertoire could include the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bach Suites
• Beethoven (Horn) Sonata
• Bottesini:  Aria, Elegy, or Reverie
• Koussevitzky:  Chanson triste or Valse miniature
• Jazz Repertoire
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

4. Sight Reading

GUITAR

1. Scales

• Three octave chromatic scale
• Two octave major scales in C, G, D, A, and E
• Two octave minor scales in Am, Em, Bm, F#, C#

2. Two etudes chosen from the following:

• Fernando Sor: Twenty Studies for the Guitar, Op. 6
• Leo Brouwer: Estudios Sencillos
• Heitor Villa-Lobos: Twelve Etudes W.235

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of solo repertoire from at least three different time periods and styles:
4. Renaissance:

• John Dowland: Fantasias, Lachrimae Pavane

2. Baroque:

• J.S. Bach: Lute Suites, BWV 995 or BWV 996)
• Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy

3. Classical:

• Fernando Sor: Grand Sonata op.22
• Mauro Giuliani: Variations on la Folia op.45

4. Spanish Romantic:

• Francisco Tarrega: Capricho Arabe
• Isaac Albeniz: Tango, Cordoba
• Enrique Granados: Danza Espagnola No.5

5. Latin American:

• Agustin Barrios Mangore: Cancion de Cuna (9), La Catedral
• Antonio Lauro: Venezuelan Waltzes
• Heitor Villa-lobos: 5 Preludes, Choro No.1 , Suite Populaire Brasilienne
• Manuel Ponce: Preludes, Sonatas

6. 20th century/Contemporary:

• Nikita Koshkin: Usher Waltz    
• Leo Brouwer: Elogio de la Danza, Cancion de Cuna
• William Walton: Five Bagatelles

4. Sight-reading:  Music in at least two voices with key signatures up to four sharps and three flats.

VOICE

1. A minimum of 18 minutes of music in at least three different languages chosen from the list below or from repertoire of comparable or greater difficulty:
2. German

• Bach: Magnificat in D Major “Quia Respexit”
• Brahms:  Vergebliches Ständchen
• Schubert: Die Forelle, Sei mir gegrüsst
• Die Winterreise, Auf dem Wasser zu singen
• Schumann: Widmung, Stille Thränen
• Strauss: Allerseelen
• Wolf: Der Gärtner , Der Musikant

2. French

• Chausson: Serenade Italienne
• Fauré:  Clair de lune, Au bord de l’eau, Dans les ruines d’une abbaye
• Debussy:  Beau soir, Mandoline
• Poulenc: Prier pour paix

3. Italian

• Donaudy: O del mio amato ben
• Durante: Danza, danza fanciulla gentile
• Lengrenzi: Che fiero costume
• Vivaldi; Domine Deus

4. English

• Bernstein: A Little Bit in Love
• Copland:  American Folksongs, Twelve Poems of Emily Dickenson
• Heggie: Songs to the Moon
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs, Songs of Travel

5. Other languages

• Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien (Gypsy Melodies)
• Granados: El majo discreto
• Rodrigo: Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios

6. Musical Theater

• Sondheim: Being Alive (Company), Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd)

2. Sight Reading and Aural skills equal to that found in the Royal Conservatory of Music level 8 sight-reading.

WOODWINDS

Flute

1. Major, Minor, and chromatic scales
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Joachim Anderson: 24 Studies, Op. 30
• Baxtresser: Orchestral Excerpts for Flute
• Harald Genzmer: Neuzeitliche Etuden v. 1 & 2
• Marcel Moyse: 24 Little Melodic Studies with Variations
• Moyse: De la Sonorite
• Moyse: Tone Development Through Interpretation
• Taffanel & Gaubert: 17 Daily Studies

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• J.S. Bach: Sonatas
• Mozart: Concerti (D or G)
• Burton: Sonatina
• Enesco: Cantabile et Presto
• Griffes: Poem
• Doppler: Hungarian Fantasie
• Doppler: Air Valaques
• Debussy: Syrinx
• Faure: Fantasie
• Hindemith: Sonata
• Hüe: Fantasie
• Martinu: Sonata
• Varese: Density 21.5
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

4. Sight Reading

Clarinet

1. Major, natural minor, and chromatic scales
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Cavallini: Thirty Caprices
• Rose, C: 40 Studies (2 vols)
• Rose, C: 32 Etudes
• Uhl, A.: 48 Etudes

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Arnold,M: Sonatina
• Baermann: Adagio
• Brahms: Sonatas 1 and 2
• Bernstein: Sonata
• Cavallini, E: Adagio and Tarantella 
• Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie
• Finzi: Five Bagatelles
• Harvey: Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin
• Hindemith: Sonata
• Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
• Mozart: Concerto
• Poulenc: Sonata
• Reinecke: Sonata
• Saint-Saens: Sonata
• Schumann: Fantasy Pieces (Cl. in A)
• Spohr: Concerto #1
• Stamitz, C: Concerto #3 in Bb
• Stravinsky: Three Pieces
• Vanhal: Sonata No. 2
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

4. Sight Reading

Oboe

1. Scales and Arpeggios
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Barrett: 40 Progressive Melodies
• Ferling: 48 Studies

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bach: Sonata in g
• Britten: 6 Metamorphoses After Ovid
• Francaix: Flower Clock
• Handel: Sonatas
• Mozart: Concerto
• Mozart: Quartet
• Poulenc: Sonata
• Saint-Saens: Sonata
• Vaughn Williams: Concerto
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

4. Sight Reading

Bassoon

1. Scales and Arpeggios
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bozza: 15 Etudes
• Milde: Concert Studies
• Orefici: Studi Melodici or Bravour Studies

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Etler: Sonata
• Etler: Sonata
• Galliard: Sonatas
• Hummel: Grand Concerto
• Hurlstone: Sonata
• Jacob: Concerto
• Mozart: Concerto
• Saint-Saens: Sonata
• Tansman: Sonatine
• Vivaldi: Concertos
• Weber: Concerto in F
• Standard Orchestral Excerpts

4. Sight Reading

Saxophone

1. Scales and Arpeggios
2. One etude chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Ferling: 48 Etudes
• Karg-Elert: 25 Caprices
• Bozza: 12 Etude Caprices

3. A minimum of 15 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bach/Mule: Flute Sonatas No. 4, 6
• Creston: Sonata
• Glazunouv:  Concerto
• Ibert: Concertino Da Camera
• Hartley: Duo
• Heiden: Sonata
• Maurice:  Tableaux de Provence
• Milhaud: Scaramouche
• Rorem: Picnic on the Marne

4. Sight Reading

Benchmarking: All listed Repertoire are found in The Carnegie Hall/Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus grades 8, 9, and 10, and the Performer’s Diploma.