School of the
Arts and Architecture
Department of
Music
AUDITION
REQUIREMENT
ORGAN
Freshman and Sophomore
Performance Specialist and all Music Education specialists
TECHNIQUES:
· Scales: all
major and minor scales (ascending and descending in parallel motion) = 60 in sixteenth notes
· Arpeggios: all major and minor triads extending two
octaves
· Sight-reading: a four part hymn or Bach
chorale-harmonization
REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE
Pianists or Harpsichordists:
A
Bach Invention, Prelude and Fuge, or movements from a Suite
An additional composition selected
from the entrance requirements for
intermediate piano or harpsichord.
Organists:
A short organ work of Bach
(Chorale-prelude from the Orgelbuchlein or
one of the Eight Little Preludes
and Fuges)
An additional composition from
another period
For Junior and Senior Performance
Specialists
TECHNIQUES:
· Scales: all major
and minor and the chromatic (in parallel and contrary
motion) = 84 in
sixteenth notes
· Arpeggios: all major and minor, dominant 7th,
augmented, and
diminished chords
extending two octaves = 92 in eighth
notes
· Sight-reading: a Bach chorale-harmonization with pedal in a
key using
up to four sharps or flats
An open SATB choral score or easier choral accompaniment
REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE
A major work of Bach
A work by a French baroque composer
A romantic work by Brahms,
Mendelssohn, or Franck
A shorter contemporary work
REPERTOIRE: MM AND DMA:
You should prepare four works: a) a major J.S. Bach prelude and fugue; b) a 17th-century French, German, or Italian work; c) a 19th-century French work; and d) a substantial work from the 20th or (early) 21st Century.
SIGHT READING: MM AND DMA:
A 4-part Bach chorale (SATB) in open score and one or more compositions on the level of the Andante from Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 3 in A major or the keyboard reduction of the accompaniment to a chorus from Haydn’s The Creation.