School of Music - The Ohio State University

Keyboard Audition Information

Piano (BM)

All compositions must be performed from memory.

1. All major and minor scales (natural, harmonic and melodic minors) hands together, four octaves in 16th notes ascending and descending. 

   A minimum speed of M.M. 88 for the quarter note is suggested.

2. One composition from the Baroque period (Bach inventions or dance movements; a composition by Scarlatti, Couperin, Rameau etc.).

3. A movement of a sonata from the Classical period (Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven). It should be in sonata form with an exposition, development 

4. A composition from the Romantic, Impressionist or Contemporary period.

5. Sight reading.

                                                                                                                                                       Updated on 04/15/2019