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Orchestral Instruments - Undergraduate Auditions
Flute (10 minutes)
- Two contrasting pieces demonstrating the ability to play both slow
and fast.
- Scales: All major and minor scales, chromatic scale (3 octaves, C'
to C4)
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Oboe (10 minutes)
- Two contrasting pieces of applicant's choice
- Scales: Two scales (1 major and 1 minor)
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Clarinet (10 minutes)
- Scales: Major scales up to and including 3 sharps and 3 flats (C,
G, F, D, B ,A, E ). Minor scales up to and including 2 sharps and 2
flats (a, e, d, b, g).
- Repertoire: Any one of the following: ( a) Brahms: First Sonata, first
movement or Second Sonata, first movement; (b) Mozart: Clarinet Concerto,
first movement; (c) Weber: Concertino - all.
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Saxophone (Students
accepted in Jazz Studies only)
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Bassoon (10 minutes)
Entering freshman requirements:
- One etude and one concerto or sonata of applicant’s choice
- Scales: B flat major scale (2 octaves)
Transfer student requirements:
- Orchestral except from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
- Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, second movement
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Horn (10 minutes)
Students selects their choice of two pieces in contrasting styles.
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Trumpet (10 minutes)
(Jazz trumpet – See Jazz Instrumental Program
audition requirements.)
Entering freshman requirements:
- One work with contrasting styles or two short pieces displaying: (a)
lyric, melodic playing and (b) technique
- Scales: Chromatic scale from low F# to high C
Transfer student requirements:
- Haydn, Hummel or Neruda (1 of the 3)
- Kent Kennan, first movement
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Trombone (10 minutes)
(Jazz trombone – See Jazz Instrumental
Program audition requirements.)
Entering freshman requirements:
- Two contrasting pieces of applicant's choice.
- Scales: Two major scales with relative minors (2 octaves up and down);
all three forms of minors.
- Major and minor arpeggios from those keys (2 octaves up and down)
Transfer student requirements:
- Two contrasting pieces of applicant’s choice
- Scales and arpeggios: All 12 major keys; two minor keys (two octaves
up and down). All three forms of minors. All major and 2 minor key arpeggios
(two octaves up and down)
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Tuba (10 minutes)
- Solo piece of student's choice
- Etude of student's choice
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Percussion (10 minutes)
(Jazz - See Jazz Instrumental Program audition
requirements.)
Entering freshman requirements:
- Prepare an etude or solo of at least one page or longer on mallet
percussion (marimba, xylophone, vibraphone or bells) and one of the
following instruments: (a) snare, (b) tympani, (c) multiple percussion,
or (d) drum set.
- Scales: Perform one major scale of instructor's choice
- Demonstrate tuning of various intervals on tympani
- Sight-reading
Transfer student requirements:
- Prepare a solo mallet percussion piece (marimba, xylophone, vibraphone,
or bells)
- Prepare a solo snare drum etude
- Prepare a solo tympani etude
- Demonstrate major or natural, harmonic or melodic minor scales on
mallet percussion instrument
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Harp (12 minutes)
- Two contrasting pieces of applicant's choice
- Scales: Two scales (3 major and 3 minor)
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Violin (12 minutes)
Entering freshman requirements:
- One movement from an unaccompanied Bach partita or sonata
- One other work that best demonstrates the applicant's ability
- Scales: Two scales with arpeggios (1 major and 1 minor in three octaves)
Transfer student requirements:
- One movement from an unaccompanied Bach partita or sonata
- One movement from a major violin concerto (composed after 1820)
- Scales: Two scales: arpeggios, thirds, sixths, octaves and tenths.
Chromatics (1 major and 1 minor)
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Viola (12 minutes)
Entering freshman requirements:
- One movement from an unaccompanied Bach suite
- One other work that best demonstrates applicant's ability
- Scales: Two scales with arpeggios (1 major and 1 minor)
Transfer student requirements:
- One etude by Kreutzer or Campagnoli
- Prelude to a Bach cello suite
- One movement of a concerto
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Cello (12 minutes)
Entering freshman and transfer student requirements:
1. One movement from a Bach suite
2. One concert piece or concerto movement that best demonstrates the student’s
strength
3. Scales: One major and one minor scale played slow and fast
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Contrabass (12 minutes)
(Jazz bass – See Jazz Studies)
- Two contrasting pieces of applicant's choice
- Scales: Two scales (3 major and 3 minor)
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