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Percussion

MM Audition Materials and Requirements: Percussion
Performance of selections from the following (or comparable) are required for entrance into the ASU Herberger College School of Music Percussion master’s programs.

Keyboard

• Abe’s Cherry Blossoms, Wind in the Bamboo Grove, Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs, Memories of the Seashore
• Bach: Suites, Preludes, Partitas, Sonatas
• Basta’s Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
• Burritt’s Shadow Chasers
• Creston’s Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra
• Deane’s Etude For A Quiet Hall
• Edwards’ Marimba Dances
• Kulesha’s Angels (with tape)
• Miki’s Time for Marimba
• Miyoshi’S Torse III
• Naito’s Memory of the Woods
• Sammut’s Four Rotations
• Skoog’s Water And Fire
• Spencer’s Tribeca Sunflower
• Steiner’s Three Bagatelles
• Stout’s Two Mexican Dances, Astral Dance, Rumble Strips
• Tanaka’s Two Movements For Marimba
• Orchestral excerpts

Timpani

• Bergamo’s Four Pieces for Timpani
• Cahn’s Raga No. 1
• Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
• Delecluse’s Trent Etudes, Book 3
• Delecluse’s Vingt Etudes
• Fink’s Timpani Tuning Etudes
• Hinger’s Solos for the Virtuoso Tympanist
• Houllif’s Four Verses for Timpani, Three Settings for Timpani, Suite for Timpani
• Lepak’s 32 Solos for Timpani
• Mancini’s Suite for Timpani
• Ridley’s Animism (with tape)
• Serry’s Conversations for Timpani (Duet)
• Williams’ Variations for Solo Kettledrums
• Orchestral excerpts

Snare Drum

• Albright’s Contemporary Studies for the Snare Drum
• Cirone’s Portraits in Rhythm
• Colgrass’s Six Unaccompanied Solos
• Delecluse’s Douze Etudes
• Lepak’s 50 Contemporary Snare Drum Etudes
• Peters’ Hard Times
• Smith’s (ed.) The Noble Snare, Vol. I – IV
• Orchestral excerpts

Multiple Percussions
In lieu of live performance, submission of recordings is acceptable.

• Hasenpflug’s South of Jupiter
• Hollinden’s Cold Pressed
• Kopetzki’s Canned Heat
• Ptaszynska’s Space Model (with tape)
• Serry’s Therapy
• Stern’s Adventures For One
• Wuolle’s Collage (with tape)
• Wyatt’s Time Mark (with tape)

In addition, you are encouraged to demonstrate abilities on other instruments such as drum set, Latin percussion, hand drums and auxiliary instruments.

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