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Undergraduate Audition Materials and Requirements: Keyboard Piano

Undergraduate Performance Majors (MUP 127)

• Must play a memorized audition that demonstrates technical facility, musicality and understanding of musical styles consisting of the following works or their equivalents:
• A Prelude and Fugue by Bach, or at least two movements of a French or English suite or partita.
• A complete Classical sonata.
• A work from the 19th century.
• A work from the 20th or 21st century.

Undergraduate Non-Performance Majors (MUP 111: music education, therapy, theory, composition, jazz performance, Bachelor of Arts)

• Must play a memorized audition that demonstrates technical facility, musicality and understanding of musical styles consisting of the following works or their equivalents:
• A Bach invention.
• An allegro movement from a Classical sonata.
• A work from the 19th century.
• A work from the 20th or 21st century.

All prospective students must be able to play major and minor scales and arpeggios with facility and appropriate fingerings. You should be prepared to sight-read at the audition.

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