Music Teacher Preparation Concentration Audition Requirements

Music Teacher Preparation Audition Requirements

BRASS

Trumpet 

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

• Caffarelli: 100 Melodic Studies in Transposition
• Gates: Odd Meter Studies

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:

• Balay: Petit Piece concertante
• Haydn: Concerto in Eb, 2nd mov’t
• Fitzgerald: Call
• Ropartz: Andante et Allegro

4. Sight Reading

French Horn 

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

• Caffarelli:  100 Melodic Studies in Transposition
• Gates:  Odd Meter Studies
• 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:
• Cherubini:  Sonata No. 1 in F
• Faure:  Aprés un réve
• Handel/Jones:  I See a Huntsman
• Haydn:  Concerto
• Mozart Concertos (easier movements)
• Chuman:  Abendlied and Widmung
• Strauss:  Nocturno
• Sight Reading

Trombone

Tenor Trombone

1. Scales: All majors and natural, harmonic, and melodic minors, two octaves, in quarter notes at ♩=80 
2. One etude from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty: 

• Bordogni:  Melodious Etudes
• Snidero: Easy Jazz Conception

3. A minimum of 10 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty: 

• Barat:  Andante et Allegro 
• Galliard:  Sonata No. 2 in G Major 
• Guilmant:  Morceau Symphonique 
• Jørgensen:  Romance for Trombone, Op. 21 
• Saint-Saëns:  Cavatine, Op. 144
• Jazz Repertoire from The Real Easy Book  

4. Sight Reading

Bass Trombone

1. Scales: All majors and natural, harmonic, and melodic minors, two octaves, in quarter notes at ♩=80 
2. One etude from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Bordogni:  Melodious Etudes 
• Snidero:  Easy Jazz Conception

3. A minimum of 10 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Hindemith:  Drei leichte Stücke 
• Lieb:  Concertino Basso 
• McCarty:  Sonata 
• Sachse:  Concertino für Bassposaune und Klavier 
• Semler-Collery:  Barcarolle et chanson bachique 
• Jazz Repertoire from The Real Easy Book

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 
• Getchell:  2nd Book of Practical Studies 
• Kopprash;  60 Selected Studies 
• Tyrrell:  40 Advanced Studies

3. 15 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty:

• Alary:  Moreceau de concours
• Belden:  Neutron Starts
• Bernstein:  Waltz of Mippi III
• Cohen:  Romance and Scherzo
• Frankenpohl:  Variations (The Cobbler’s Bench)
• Galliard:  Sonata No. 6
• Handel/Voxman:  Adagio and Allegro
• Hartley:  Sonatina
• Jacob:  6 Little Tuba Pieces
• Jacob:  Bagatelles
• Marcello:  Sonata in F, Op. 1, No. 1
• Nehlybel:  Suite
• Vivaldi:  Allegro from Sonata No. 3

4. Sight Reading

PERCUSSION

1. Mallet Instruments

• a.  Major and minor scales in two octaves
• b.  One piece of two-mallet repertoire such as Kreister/Green Tamborin Chinois or Goldenberg Modern School for Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone or other works or comparable or greater difficulty
• c.  One piece four-mallet repertoire such as Irvine:  Eight Antique Folks Dances or other works or comparable or greater difficulty

2. Snare

• Basic technique (flams, ruffs, and paradiddles) and Percussive Arts Society International Roll Rudiments
• One piece such as Goldenberg:  Modern School for Snare Drum or Wanamaker:  Crazy Army or other works or comparable or greater difficulty

3. Either 

• a.  Timpani – Bergamo:  Four Pieces of Timpani or other works or comparable or greater difficulty

OR

• b.  Multiple percussion – Kraft:  French Suite or other works or comparable or greater difficulty

4. Sight Reading

PIANO

15 min of music including:

1. A piece from the Baroque Period such as Air in G minor by G.F. Handel, Gavotte by J.S. Bach from French Suite #5, G Major, BWV 816 or other works of comparable or greater difficulty. 
2. One Allegro movement of any Sonatinas by M.Clementi, F. Khulau or W.A. Mozart or other works of comparable or greater difficulty
3. A Romantic or Contemporary Work such as Mazurka in a minor, op.7, #2 by F. Chopin,  Prelude by M. Ravel, Preludes op. 11 by A. Scriabin or other works of comparable or greater difficulty
4. Sight Reading

STRINGS

Violin

1. 3 octave scales
2. A minimum of 13 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Accolay:  Concerto
• Bach:  Concerto in a minor
• Dvorak:  Sonatina
• Handel:  Sonatas in D major or A Major
• Monti:  Csardas

3. Sight Reading

Viola

1. 3 octave scales
2. A minimum of 13 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Bach: Suites
• JC Bach/Cassadesus:  Concerto
• Handel/Cassadesus:  Concerto
• Schubert: Sonatina in g

3. Sight Reading

Cello

1. 3 octave scales
2. A minimum of 13 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements) chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Bach:  Suites
• Eccles:  Sonata
• Faure:  Elegy
• Popper:  Gavotte, Op. 23 or Mazurka, Op. 11
• Sammartini:  Sonata in g
• Squire:  Tarantella, Op. 23

3. Sight Reading

Bass  

1. 3 octave scales
2. A minimum of 13 minutes of music (one or two contrasting pieces or movements)  chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Capuzzi:  Concerto
• Eccles:  Sonata
• Fauré:  Aprées Un Réve
• Marcello:  Sonatas

3. Sight Reading

Guitar

1. A minimum of 13 minutes of music chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Barrios:  Mabelita and Madrecita
• Brouwer:  Preludio 1, 2, 4, or 5
• Carcassi:  Tempo di valse
• Dowland:  Air and Galliard
• Mertz:  Five Waltzes
• Milan:  Pavane I, III, or V
• Milan:  Pavan I, II, IV or VI from El Maestro
• Tarrega:  Prelude 3 or 5
• Tarrega Pavana, and Valse en re
• Villa-Lobos:  Mazurka-choro from Suite populair Bresilienne
• Villa Lobos:  Prelude No. 4 from Cinq Preludes
• Visée:  Suite in d
• Visée:  Suite in g

2. Sight Reading

VOICE

1. A minimum of 13 minutes of music including songs in at least two languages chosen from the following or other works of comparable or greater difficulty

• Arne:  Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
• Brahms:  In Stiller Nacht
• Brahms:  Marif ging aus wanderen
• Britten:  Sammy’s Bath from The Little Sweep
• Caccinii:  Udite, amanti
• Campion:  I care Not for These Ladies
• Cavalli:  Sospiri di foco
• Faure:  Le papillon et la fleur
• Handel:  Art Thou Troubled from Rodelinda
• Handel:  Here amid the Shady Woods from  Alexander Balus
• Lully:  Trop hereux qui moissone from Therese
• Masenet:  Crespuscule
• Mendelssohn:  Pagenlied
• Mendelssohn:  Frühlingslied, Op. 8, No. 6
• Monteverdi:  Si dolce e’l tormento
• Morley:  It was a Lover and His Lass
• Mozart:  Die Zufriedenheit
• Peri:  Gioite al canto mio from Euridice
• Poulence:  Voyage a Paris from Banalites
• Quilter:  Sing Songs
• Quilter:  Spring is at the Door
• Ravel:  Chanson francaise
• Reger:  Maria Wiegenlied
• Schubert:  An Sylvia
• Schubert:  Die Forelle
• Schubert:  Des Müllers Blumen from Die schöne Müllerin
• Schumann:  An den Sonnenschein
• Schumann:  Erestes Grün
• Vaughn Williams:  Linden Lea

2. Sight Reading

WOODWINDS

Flute

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

• Andersen:  26 kleine Capricen
• Drout:  25 Etudes celebres
• Gariboldi:  20 Etudes chantantes
• Kohler:  20 Etures romantiques
• Platonov:  30 Studies
• Rae:  40 Modern Studies for Flute

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

• Boismortier:  Sonatas Op. 9 No. 2 or 6
• Boismortier:  Suites for solo flute
• Bozza:  Aria
• Foote:  3 pieces 
• Godard:  Legend pastorale
• Handel:  Sonatas:  in b, g, e, or G
• Hindemith:  8 Pieces
• Rachmaninoff:  Vocalise
• Telemann:  Fantasias 

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

• Barlow:  The Winter’s Passed
• Faith:  Miniatures for Oboe and Piano
• Albinoni:  12 Concerti
• Teleman:  Concerto in F minor
• Nielsen:  Two Fantasiestuck
• Schumann:  Three Romances 

4. Sight Reading

Clarinet

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

• Baermann:  Complete Clarinet School
• Mocentini:  24 Melodic Studies
• Rae:  40 Modern Studies
• Rose:  40 Studies for Clarinet
• Rose:  32 Etudes for Clarinet

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

• Debussy:  Petite Piece
• Faure:  Berceuse:  Op. 16
• Finzi:  Five Bagatelles 
• Hindemith: Sonata
• Lefever:  Sonata No. 5
• Mozart: Concerto
• Stamitz: Concerto #3 in Bb
• Vanhall:  Sonata in B-flat

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 Studies
• Lacour:  25 etudes altonales faciles
• Mayeur:  20 Studies
• Mules: 18 Exercises or Studies
• Niehaus: Advanced Jazz Conception
• Voxman:  Selected Studies

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:

• Bozza:  Aria
• Eccles:  Sonata
• Demersseman:  Allegretto brilliante
• Francaix:  Cinq danses exotiques
• Handel: Sonata No. 3
• Heiden:  Sonata
• Ibert:  Histoires
• Nelhybel:  Allegro
• Rachmaninoff:  Vocalise
• Ravel:  Piece en forme de habanera

4. Sight Reading

Bassoon

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

• Milde:  Studies in All Keys
• Orefici:  20 Melodic Studies
• Weissenborn:  50 Studies

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:

• JC Bach Concerto in B-flat or E-flat
• David:  Concertino in B-flat
• Devienne:  Concerto in B-flat
• Devienne:  Sonata in G, Op. 24, No. 5
• Dunhill:  Lyrica Suite
• Galliard:  Sonatas
• Gliere:  Impromptu
• Hindemith:  Sonata
• Pierne:  Solo de concert
• Rota:  Toccata
• Vivaldi:  Concerto #13 in C, #6 in e, 1 in Bb, 13 in C, 5 in d

4. Sight Reading