Herberger Institute for Design and the ArtsSchool of Music

Percussion Audition Information 

Percussion (MM)

Keyboard 

l  Abe: Cherry Blossoms, Wind in the Bamboo Grove, Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs, Memories of the Seashore 

l  J.S. Bach: Suites, Preludes, Partitas, Sonatas 

l  Burritt: Shadow Chasers, Scirocco 

l  Edwards: Marimba Dances 

l  Miki: Time for Marimba 

l  Miyoshi: Torse III 

l  Naito: Memory of the Woods 

l  Sammut: Four Rotations 

l  Spencer: Tribeca Sunflower 

l  Stout: Two Mexican Dances, Astral Dance, Rumble Strips 

l  Tanaka: Two Movements for Marimba 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Timpani 

l  Bergamo: Four Pieces for Timpani 

l  Cahn: Raga No. 1 

l  Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani 

l  Delecluse: Trent Etudes, Book 3 

l  Delecluse: Vingt Etudes 

l  Hinger: Solos for the Virtuoso Tympanist 

l  Houllif: Four Verses for Timpani, Three Settings for Timpani, Suite for Timpani 

l  Lepak: 32 Solos for Timpani 

l  Williams: Variations for Solo Kettledrums 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Snare Drum 

l  Albright: Contemporary Studies for the Snare Drum 

l  Colgrass: Six Unaccompanied Solos 

l  Delecluse: Douze Etudes 

l  Lepak: 50 Contemporary Snare Drum Etudes 

l  Peters: Hard Times 

l  Smith (ed.): The Noble Snare, Vol. I–IV 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Multiple Percussion  

l  In lieu of live performance, submission of recordings of the following (or comparable) is acceptable.

ü  Cangelosi: Naglfar 

ü  Hollinden: Cold Pressed 

ü  Finley: Blade 

ü  Lindroth: Bell Plates

Percussion (DMA)

The prescreening requirements

l  Marimba and/or Vibraphone: solo repertoire and orchestral excerpts 

l  Snare Drum: solo repertoire and orchestral excerpts 

l  Timpani: solo repertoire and orchestral excerpts 

l  Drumset and/or multiple percussion 

l  Optional: World percussion and/or accessory instruments

Live audition requirements

l  Please prepare material from the following list of sample pieces (or comparable).  

l  You are encouraged to demonstrate abilities on other instruments as well such as drum set, world percussion, and auxiliary instruments.

Keyboard 

l  Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin 

l  Cancian: Lo Que No Es Azul 

l  Deane: Mourning Dove Sonnet 

l  Donatoni: Omar 

l  Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water 

l  Ewazen: Northern Lights 

l  Helble: Preludes 1–6, Sonata Brevis and Toccata Fantasy 

l  Kessner: Continuum 

l  Klatzow: Dances of Earth and Fire 

l  Lansky: Three Moves for Marimba 

l  Mackey: See Ya Thursday 

l  Niimi: For Marimba I and For Marimba II 

l  S. Smith: Links Nos. 1–4 

l  Schwantner: Velocities 

l  Serry: Night Rhapsody 

l  Sueyoshi: Mirage for Marimba 

l  Thomas: Merlin 

l  Vinao: Khan Variations, Burritt Variations 

l  Zivkovic: Ultimatum, Concerto No. 1, Concerto No. 2 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Timpani 

l  Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani 

l  Farberman: Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra 

l  Helble: Three Etudes for Five Timpani 

l  Parchman: Timpani Concerto 

l  Raphling: Concerto for 5 Timpani and Orchestra 

l  Tharichen: Konzert für Pauken und Orchester 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Snare Drum 

l  Delecluse: Douze Etudes 

l  Lepak: 50 Contemporary Snare Drum Etudes 

l  Peters: Hard Times 

l  Smith (ed.): The Noble Snare, Vol. I–IV 

l  Orchestral excerpts

Multiple Percussion

l  In lieu of live performance, recordings of the following (or comparable) are acceptable

ü  Cangelosi: Wicca 

ü  Ferneyhough: Bone Alphabet 

ü  Fukushi: Ground I 

ü  Globokar: Toucher 

ü  Gordon: XY 

ü  Hamilton: Edge (Corrugated Box) 

ü  Ishii: Thirteen Drums 

ü  Lang: Anvil Chorus 

ü  Norgard: I Ching 

ü  Stockhausen: Zyklus 

ü  Volans: Asanga 

ü  Wood: Rogósanti 

ü  Xenakis: Psappha and Rebonds

                                                                                                                        Updated on 08/03/2018