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Clarinet Audition 2018/19 Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first one or two excerpts.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 1: Peters, Melody Quarter Note = 100 Time Signature = 4/4
Clarinet Audition 2018/19 Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first one or two excerpts.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 2: Dvorák, Symphony No. 9, mvt. 4: Clarinet I, from two bars before fig. 3 to 1st bar of fig. 4 NOTE: Clarinet in A (may be played on B-flat clarinet un-transposed, if necessary) Quarter Note = 126 Time Signature = 4/4
Clarinet Audition 2018/19 Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first one or two excerpts.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 3: Copland, Appalachian Spring Suite, Clarinet I, from the bar before fig. 55 to fig. 57 Quarter Note = 72 Time Signature = 2/4
Clarinet Audition 2018/19 Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first one or two excerpts.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 4: Gershwin, An American in Paris, Clarinet I, from fig. 3 to 6th bar of fig. 8 Quarter Note = 132 Time Signature = 2/4