Applied Music (Performance) Audition Requirements - Trombone

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