Suggested Pieces for Music Auditions

Guiding Your Audition Preparedness

These suggestions are intended to help guide you in selecting appropriate pieces for your audition at 黑料老司机. In addition to the prepared pieces, students will perform a short sight reading exercise.

Suggested Pieces According to Instrument

  1. One song in Italian from the Schirmer Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias or a similar source.
  2. One British or American art song or folk song, such as those arranged by Britten, Copland, or Quilter. Broadway songs are NOT acceptable.
     
  1. One of Bach鈥檚 2- or 3-Part Inventions or a Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier.
  2. A movement from a sonata by Beethoven, Haydn or Mozart.
  3. Your choice of one of the following: a technical etude, a large Romantic work, or a contemporary work.
  1. An etude by Sor, Carcassi, Giuliani, or Carulli.
  2. An etude by Leo Brouwer, or a solo piece by Tarrega.
     
  1. An etude by Kreutzer or Dont (or comparable).
  2. One or two contrasting movements from the standard repertoire (sonata or concerto by Handel, Mozart, or comparable).
  1. An etude by Mazas or Kreutzer (or comparable).
  2. One or two contrasting movements from the standard repertoire (sonata or concerto by Telemann, Vivaldi, Hoffmeister, or comparable).
  1. One movement of a standard concerto or sonata, of moderate difficulty (i.e. concerti by J.C. Bach, Breval, Goltermann, Saint-saens, Baroque sonatas by Vivaldi, Marcello, Corelli, Brahms Sonata in E Minor)
  2. A solo piece or etude in contrasting style and tempo to the chosen concerto (i.e. Faure Elegy, Bruch Kol Nidre, Klengel Concertino, Tchaikovsky Nocturne)
     
  1. One of the 30 Simandl etudes or Patitucci Etudes.
  2. Two contrasting movements from a solo such as Eccles鈥� Sonata.
     

Two contrasting movements from any of the following:

  1. Mozart concerti, Bach or Handel sonatas.
  2. A French Conservatory piece such as the Faure Fantasie, Chaminade Concertino, Enesco Cantabile et Presto, etc. (found in the Flute Music by French Composers, edited by Moyse).
  3. A movement from a 20th century sonata such as Poulenc, Hindemith, or Muczynski.
     
  1. An etude selected from either a) Barret Oboe Method, b) Barret鈥檚 40 Progressive Melodies for Oboe, c) Barret鈥檚 16 Grand Studies for Oboe, or Ferling鈥檚 48 Studies for Oboe.
  2. Two contrasting movements from the standard solo literature (e.g., Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Strauss, Poulenc, etc.
     
  1. An etude selected from Weissenborn鈥檚 50 Advanced Studies.
  2. Two contrasting movements selected from among Telemann鈥檚 Sonata in F minor, Mozart鈥檚 Concerto in B-flat, or von Weber鈥檚 Concerto.
     
  1. An etude selected from Rose鈥檚 40 Studies, Rose鈥檚 32 Studies, or Klose鈥檚 20 Studies.
  2. Two contrasting movements from the standard solo literature (Mozart鈥檚 Concerto K. 622, Weber鈥檚 Concerto #1 or #2, Finzi鈥檚 Five Bagatelles, Brahms鈥� Sonata #1 or #2).
     
  1. An etude, either lyrical or technical, selected from either Ferling鈥檚 48 Studies for Oboe or Saxophone or Hite鈥檚 Melodious & Progressive Studies, Bks. 1 & 2.
  2. A movement from the standard solo literature: Creston, Heiden, Ibert, Glazounov, etc. in contrasting style from the etude.
     
  1. An etude such as Arban鈥檚 14 Characteristic Studies, Bousquet鈥檚 36 Etudes, Charlier鈥檚 36 Transcendental Etudes, or Goldman鈥檚 Practical Studies.
  2. A solo such as Hummel鈥檚 Concerto in E-Flat (two contrasting movements), Kennan鈥檚 Sonata (two contrasting movements), Hansen鈥檚 Sonata (two contrasting movements), Ropartz鈥檚 Andante and Allegro, or Balay鈥檚 Andante and Allegretto.
     
  1. An etude by Kopprasch or Maxime-Alphonse.
  2. First movement of any Mozart horn concerto or the first movement of Strauss鈥檚 Concerto, Op. 11.
  1. A lyrical etude such as Rochut (Bordogni) Melodious Etudes, Book 1.
  2. A technical etude such as Vobaron, Kopprasch, Arban, Cornette, etc. 
  3. A solo such as Guilmant鈥檚 Morceau Symphonique, Saint-Saens鈥檚 Cavatine Op. 144, or Barat鈥檚 Andante and Allegro.
  1. One of the following solos/etudes: Rochut鈥檚 Melodious Etudes, Vaughan-Williams/Droste鈥檚 Six Studies in English Folk Songs (any 3), White鈥檚 Lyric Suite (mvts 3 and 4), Mozart鈥檚 Bassoon Concerto (mvt 1).
  2. One of the following excerpts: Holst鈥檚 Second Suite (mvt 1), Gordon Jacob鈥檚 Earl of Oxford March, or William Schumann鈥檚 When Jesus Wept.
     
  1. An etude selected from  collection by either Arban, Rochut (Bordogni), Kopprasch, Bladsevich, or Grigoriev.
  2. A solo such as Vaughn Williams鈥檚 Tuba Concerto or Six Studies in English Folk Songs, Gregson鈥檚 Tuba Concerto, or Hindemith鈥檚 Sonate.
     

Successful candidates will play all three instruments:
Snare

  1. A piano-forte-piano closed roll, flams, drags, and 4 stroke ruffs.
  2. A solo or etude by Cirone, Delecleuse, or Goldenberg.

Mallets

  1. All major and minor scales. Scales should be two octaves ascending and descending and performed at a moderate tempo.
  2. A solo for 2 or 4 mallets by Stout, Musser, Creston, Bach, Green, or Goldenberg.

Timpani

  1. Tune intervals of fourths and fifths and execute a piano-forte-piano roll.
  2. A solo or etude by Firth, Goodman, Carter, or Whaley.
     
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