Bachelor of Music | Mannes College the New School for Music

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Piano (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

All applicants for the piano concentration must submit a preliminary audition recording via Acceptd. On the basis of this prescreening, they may be invited to the required live audition. Piano applicants currently enrolled in a degree program at Mannes are not prescreened.

The prescreening audition must include the following repertoire only:

1. A prelude and fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier or two contrasting movements from a keyboard suite by J.S. Bach
2. A sonata by either Mozart or Beethoven (excluding Beethoven op. 49 and 79). A sonata by Haydn (except juvenilia) or Schubert may be substituted.
3. A large-scale 19th-century solo piece (not a concerto).

Audition Repertoire

1. A prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier or two contrasting movements from a keyboard suite by J.S. Bach
2. A sonata of either Mozart or Beethoven (excluding Beethoven op. 49 and 79). A sonata of Haydn (except juvenilia) or Schubert may be substituted.
3. A large-scale 19th-century solo piece (not a concerto)
4. A 20th- or 21st-century solo piece (not a concerto). An original composition or arrangement by the auditionee may be substituted.

All pieces must be performed from memory.

Harpsichord (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

No prescreen is required.

Audition Repertoire

- Two Scarlatti sonatas

1. - Two contrasting movements from a suite by J.S. Bach
2. - Six movements or short pieces by composers representing both the French clavecin school and English virginalists

- All pieces must be performed from memory.

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