Search
Admissions
<< back to: Admissions: Audition
Undergraduate Audition Materials and Requirements: Brass Instruments
Admission into performance programs (MUP 127/327) requires more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone and flexibility than is required for music education, theory, therapy, and Bachelor of Arts (MUP 111/311) programs. While orchestral excerpts are not required of performance applicants, the inclusion of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.
The entrance audition must display a level of development that allows you to start with the listed repertoire or comparable literature. Live and recorded auditions are accepted; however, a live audition is required for scholarship consideration. A slightly longer program of music is suggested for recorded auditions. Piano accompaniment is not required for brass auditions.
Trumpet
- Scales: Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- Perform two contrasting movements, pieces or etudes.
Horn
- Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- Two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to the following representative samples:
- Hindemith: Sonata
- Mozart: Concertos 2, 3 or 4
- F. Strauss: Nocturno
- R. Strauss: Concerto No. 1
Trombone
Tenor Trombone
- Scales: Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- An etude from Melodious Etudes Book 1 by Marco Bordogni, ed. Joannes Rochut
- An etude from 60 Studies for Trombone by Georg Kopprasch
- Two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to the following representative samples:
- Barat: Andante et Allegro
- Croce–Spinelli: Solo de Concours
- David: Concertino
- Galliard or Marcello: Sonata 1–6
- Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique
- Hindemith: Sonata
Bass Trombone
- Scales: Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- An etude from Melodious Etudes Book 1 by Marco Bordogni, ed. Joannes Rochut (one octave lower than printed)
- An etude from Selected Studies for Bass Trombone by Georg Kopprasch, ed. Richard Fote
- Two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to the following representative samples:
- Ewazen: Concerto for Bass Trombone
- Fetter: Variations on Palestrina’s “Dona Nobis Pacem”
- Lebedev: Concerto No. 1 (Hofmeister edition)
- Hidas: Meditation
- McCarty: Sonata for Bass Trombone
Euphonium
- Scales: Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- Etudes. Suggested etudes can be found in Voxman's Selected Studies, Bordogni and Rochut's Melodious Studies, Vol. 1, and Arban's Characteristic Studies.
- Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Curnow's Rhapsody for Euphonium, Arban's Carnival of Venice and Variations on a Tyrolean Song, DeLuca's Beautiful Colorado or Clinard's Sonata for Unaccompanied Euphonium.
Tuba
- Scales: Major scales in two octaves
- Sight–reading
- Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Grigoriev’s Studies for Tuba, Bordogni’s Legato Etudes Vol. 1, Blazhevich’s 70 Studies for Tuba, Haddad’s Suite for Tuba, Hindemith’s Sonata for Bass Tuba , Vaughn Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba (movement 1), Holmes’ Lento, Wilder Suite No. 1 for Tuba, Marcello’s Sonata in F–Major or Marcello’s Sonata in A–Minor