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Trumpet (MM)

Major and Minor scales (including chromatic)

l  Etude: Charlier 2 and Bitsch etude of your own choice

l  Solo: Honegger - Intrada and contrasting solo of your own choice of similar difficulty

l  Excerpts: Stravinsky - Ballerina's Dance; Mahler - Symphony No. 5, opening; Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (Promenade); Respighi - Pines of Rome (Off-Stage Solo); Beethoven - Leonore 3 (Off-stage solo)

Trumpet (DMA)

Sight reading and transposition

l  Etude: Charlier 2 and Bitsch etude of your own choice

l  Solos: Baroque concerto on piccolo trumpet (Telemann, Tartini, Marcello, or similar concerto); Classical Concerto on E-flat trumpet (Haydn or Hummel); 20th Century Concerto (Tomasi, Chaynes, or Desenclos)

l  Excerpts: Stravinsky - Ballerina's Dance; Mahler - Symphony No. 5, opening; Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (Promenade); Respighi - Pines of Rome (Off-Stage Solo); Beethoven - Leonore 3 (Off-stage solo), Bach - Magnificat; Bizet - Carmen Prelude; Ravel - Piano Concerto in G (1st Movement)

For graduate Jazz Trumpet, please refer to the "Jazz Studies" section on 뮤직에임.

Tenor Trombone (MM)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Ewazen – Sonata; Grøndahl – Concerto; Castérède – Sonatine.

l  Excerpts: Mozart – Requiem (Tuba Mirum); Berlioz – Hungarian March; Wagner –Tannhauser Overture; Ravel – Bolero; Mahler – Symphony No. 3 (1 st mvt.); Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries.

Tenor Trombone (DMA)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Tomasi – Concerto; Creston – Fantasy; Bourgeois – Concerto, op. 114.

l  Excerpts: Mozart – Requiem (Tuba Mirum); Berlioz – Hungarian March; Saint Saens – Symphony No. 3; Ravel – Bolero; Mahler – Symphony No. 3 (1 st mvt.); Wagner –Ride of the Valkyries; Schumann – Symphony No. 3; Strauss – Ein Heldenleben; Rossini – William Tell Overture.

For graduate Jazz Trombone, please refer to the "Jazz Studies" section on 뮤직에임.

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Bass Trombone (MM)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Ewazwen – Concerto; Hidas – Rhapsody; Kazik – Concerto in Five Short Movements.

l  Excerpts: Berlioz – Hungarian March; Haydn – Creation; Wagner – Das Rheingold; Kodaly – Hary Janos; Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries.

Bass Trombone (DMA)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Gillingham – Sonata; Ewazen – Concerto; Castérède – Fantasie Concertante; Schnyder – Concerto.

l  Excerpts: Respighi – Fountains of Rome; Berlioz – Hungarian March; Haydn –Creation; Wagner – Das Rheingold; Kodaly – Hary Janos; Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries; Schumann – Symphony No. 3; Strauss – Ein Heldenleben; Rossini – William Tell Overture.

For graduate Jazz Trombone, please refer to the "Jazz Studies" section on 뮤직에임.

Horn (MM)

The works below are to be performed without piano for acceptance to the College of Music and prior to enrollment. The same work or another from the list (etudes excepted) must be performed with piano at the first semester jury. 

First movement of one of the following

l  Mozart Concerto in Eb (K. 417, 447, or 495)

l  R. Strauss Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 

l  Hindemith Sonata (1939) or Villanelle by Dukas

l  Adagio and Allegro by Schumann or a work of equivalent/greater difficulty (including etudes)

l  plus any three orchestral excerpts

Horn (DMA)

The works below are to be performed without piano for acceptance to the College of Music and prior to enrollment. The same work or another from the list (etudes excepted) must be performed with piano at the first semester jury. 

First movement of one of the following

l  Mozart Concerto in Eb (K. 417, 447, or 495) 

l  R. Strauss Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 

l  R. Strauss Concerto No. 2

l  Gliere Concerto (cadenza optional)

l  Jacob Concerto

l  Hindemith Sonata (1939) or Villanelle by Dukas

l  Adagio and Allegro by Schumann or a work of equivalent/greater difficulty (including etudes)

l  plus any six orchestral excerpts

Euphonium

Admission will be based upon a successful performance of specific required audition repertoire. A maximum of two auditions attempts are permitted. Memorization is not required.

Euphonium (MM)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Jacob – Fantasia; Picchi/Mantia – Fantasie Originale; Horovitz – Concerto: Boccalari – Fantasia di Concerto.

l  Excerpts: Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever; Moussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition (Bydlo)

Euphonium (DMA)

Select one solo and all excerpts)

l  Ponchielli – Concerto; Bourgeois – Concerto, Op. 114; Cosma – Concerto: Curnow - Symphonic Variants.

l  Excerpts: Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever; Moussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition (Bydlo); Schönberg – Theme and Variations; Makris – Aegean Festival; Strauss – Ein Heldenleben; Holst – Planets.

Tuba (MM)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Bach ­- Sonata No. II in E-flat; Broughton ­- Concerto; Vaughan Williams ­- Concerto.

l  Excerpts: Prokofiev ­- Symphony No. 5; Wagner ­- Die Meistersinger; Wagner ­- Ride of the Valkyries. Berlioz ­- Hungarian March; Strauss ­- Til Eulenspiegel.

Tuba (DMA)

Select one solo and all excerpts

l  Arutunian ­- Concerto; Ewazen ­- Concerto; John Williams ­- Concerto; Broughton - Concerto.

l  Excerpts: Prokofiev ­- Symphony No. 5; Wagner ­- Die Meistersinger; Wagner ­- Ride of the Valkyries; Berlioz ­- Hungarian March; Strauss ­- Til Eulenspiegel; Berlioz ­- Symphonie Fantastique; Respighi - ­ Fountains of Rome.

                                                                                                                                Updated on 04/27/2019