School of the Arts and Architecture

Department of Music

AUDITION REQUIREMENT

CLASSICAL GUITAR

Freshman and Sophomore Performance Specialist and Music Education specialists

TECHNIQUES:

· Sight-reading:

o Sonatinas by Mozart, Schirmer’s Edition

o Guitar Trio by Leonard de Call, Schott Edition

o Guitar Duets by Ferdinando Carulli

REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE

§ Movements from Baroque suites by Johann Anton Logy, Robert de Visee, J.S. Bach or others

§ Preludes or Etudes by Heitor Villa-Lobos

§ Pavanes by Luys Milan

§ Guardame las Vacas by Luys de Narvaez

For Junior and Senior Performance Specialists

TECHNIQUES:

· Sight Reading:

o Eight Pieces for Two Guitars by Igor Stravinsky editor: T. Norman Chester Editions

o Six Sonatinas by Soulima Stravinsky editor: T. Norman Peters Editions

o Hindemith Trio Schott Edition (3 guitars)

o 3 Quintets of Boccherini Zimmerman Edition (guitar & string quartet)

o J.S. Bach Sacred Arias for Flute, Voice and Guitar Haslinger Edition

o Haydn Quartets and Trios Coblinger Edition (guitar & strings) Originally for  Lute and Strings

REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE

§ A movement of a suite by J.S. Bach

§ A Spanish work by Isaac Albeniz, Joaquin Turina, F.Morena Torroba

§ Fantasias by 16th-century vihuelistas

MM and DMA:

Your program must include one from the following: Villa Lobos: Prelude No. 1 (Eschig); J.C. Bach: two contrasting suite movements; Krenek: Suite (1957) (Doblinger).

Suggested works: movements from Baroque suites by Weiss, or suites in the Baroque style by Manuel Ponce; Boccerini/Casado concerto; Rodrigo concerti