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Undergraduate Audition Requirements: Strings

• All major and minor three octave scales and arpeggios.
• Two works contrasting in style and tempo.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• An outer movement of a standard concerto.
• A movement from one of Bach’s Sonatas or Partitas for solo violin.

Viola

• All major and minor three octave scales and arpeggios.
• Two works contrasting in style and tempo.

      Additional requirements for performance (MUP 127) degrees

• A movement from one of Bach’s Suites for solo cello.
• A movement or piece from the standard repertoire (i.e. Bloch’s Suite Hebraique, Handel’s Casadesus B Minor Concerto, Hummel’s Fantasie, Stamitz’s Concerto, Vaughan Williams’ Suite, Weber’s Andante and Hungarian Rondo).

Cello

• An etude.
• Two works contrasting in tempo and style.

Double Bass

• All major two octave scales.
• An etude exemplifying the applicant's technical standard.
• Two works contrasting in tempo and style.

Guitar*

• Two major and melodic-minor scales of your choice in at least two octaves.
• Three solo works demonstrating different musical styles and techniques at an intermediate level. Selections may include or be equivalent in difficulty to pieces such as:
• (Renaissance) a work originally for lute or vihuela
• (Baroque) a movement from a suite by Sanz, DeVisee, Bach or Weiss, or a sonata by Scarlatti
• (Classical) studies by Sor, Carcassi, Aguado, or Giuliani
• (Romantic/Modern) studies or preludes by Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, etc.

*Prior private instruction from a qualified classical guitar teacher is strongly advised. You are required to submit a repertoire list.  Additionally, you may be asked to sight-read a short piece to be selected at the time of the audition.

Harp

• Prepare one movement transcribed from any of the unaccompanied violin partitas and sonatas by J.S. Bach (any edition).
• Etude No. 10, from Ettore Pozzoli, Etudes of Medium Difficulty.
• One orchestral cadenza; one concerto movement.
• One programmatic work from the standard harp repertoire.
• All solo literature is to be performed from memory.

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