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Undergraduate Audition Materials and Requirements: Brass Instruments

Admission into performance (MUP 127) requires more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone and flexibility than is required for music education, theory, therapy, jazz performance and Bachelor of Arts (MUP 111) programs. While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance 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 taped auditions are accepted; however, a live audition is required to be considered for scholarships. A slightly longer program of music is suggested for taped auditions.

Trumpet

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves.
• Sight-reading.
• Perform two contrasting movements, pieces or etudes.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• You are required to display more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, flexibility and intonation.
• While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.

Horn

• Sight reading and major scales in two octaves may be included in the audition.
• A program of two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty. 
  • Beethoven: Sonata
  • Glazunov: Reveries
  • Heiden: Sonata
  • Mozart: Concertos 1-4; Concert Rondo
  • Saint-Säens: Concertpiece; Romance, Op. 36
  • Scriabin: Romance
  • F. Strauss: Concerto, Op. 8; Nocturno, Op. 7
  • R. Strauss: Concerto No. 1

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• You are required to display more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, flexibility and intonation.
• While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.

Trombone

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves.
• Sight-reading.
• Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Blazhevich’s Concert Piece No. 5, Galliard’s Sonatas No. 1-3, Guilmant’s Morceau Symphonique, Marcello’s Sonata in F Major, Ropartz’s Andante et Allegro, Barat’s Andante et Allegro, Rousseau’s Piece Concertante, Morel’s Piece in F-Minor, Lebedev’s Concerto in One Movement, McCarthy’s Sonata for Bass Trombone or Hindemith’s Dreileichte Stucke.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• You are required to display more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, flexibility and intonation.
• While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.

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.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• You are required to display an advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, flexibility and intonation.
• While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.

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.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• You are required to display more advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, flexibility and intonation.
• While orchestral excerpts are not required, performance of several standard excerpts as a part of your audition is welcomed.

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