Applied Music (Performance) Audition Requirements - Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon

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