School of the Arts and Architecture

Department of Music

AUDITION REQUIREMENT

HARP

 

Freshman and Sophomore Performance Specialist and all Music Education specialists

 

TECHNIQUES:

 

·   Scales:  major scales in any key – two hands, four groups of four notes,

     ascending and descending,  = 59 in sixteenth notes

·  Arpeggios:  7th chord arpeggios in any key, alternating hands, ascending and

    descending.

·  Sight-reading:  from the two books of SKETCHES by Carlos Salzedo

·  Etudes:   #3 each – Grandjany Etudes for the Harp

                    #3 and #5 from 15 Preludes for the harp (Salzedo’s Method

        Book for the Harp)

 

REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE

           

            One piece form “Suite of Eight Dances” by Carlos Salzedo

            Dussek:  Sonantina #4 from “Six Sonatines”

            Tournier:  #1, 3, or 6 from “Six Noels pour la harpe”

            Renie:  Danse D’autrefois from “Feuillets d’Album”

           

For Junior and Senior Performance Specialists

 

TECHNIQUES:

 

·  Scales: all minor scales in any key – two hands, four groups of four

    notes, ascending and descending  = 50 in sixteenth notes

·   Arpeggios:  on 7th chords and in inversions – alternate hands,

     ascending and descending repeat top note)  = 50 in sixteenth notes.

·  Sight-reading:  from Method for the Harp by Carlos Salzedo

·   Etudes:  #1 from “Eight Great Concert Studies” by Posse, any one from

     Vol. I, Bochsa, or one form Modern study of the Harp by Carlos Salzedo

 

REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE

           

            Beethoven Variations on a Swiss Air

            One movement from either the Natra Sanatina or Hinemith Sonata

            One of the following cadenzas:

                        ·           Caprice Espagnol – Rimsky-Korsakoff

                        ·           Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti

                        ·           Nutcracker – Tschaikovsky

                        ·           Mignon (overture) – Thomas

                        ·           Young Persons’ Guide to the Orchestra – britten

            One from Orchestra Studies for the Harp Vol. I by Zingel

 

 

REPERTOIRE: MM AND DMA:

Your program must include one from the following: Hindemith: Sonata for Harp; Gradjany: Children’s Hour or Fantasie; Salzedo: Variations on a Theme in Ancient Style.