School of the Arts and Architecture

Department of Music

AUDITION REQUIREMENT

TRUMPET

Freshman and Sophomore Performance Specialist and all Music Education Specialists

TECHNIQUES:

· Scales: major and minor, 2 octaves

· Arpeggios: major and minor, 2 octaves

· Sight-reading: common rhythmic patterns and triplet rhythms (double

and triple tounging)

· Etudes: Arbans Complete Method

World’s Method

St. Jacome’s Method

The equivalent

For Junior and Senior Performance Specialists

TECHNIQUES:

· Scales: major and minor with good tone production with staccato

tounging and slurs from written not F# below middle C to D above the

staff.

· Arpeggios: major, minor, augmented, diminished, and sevenths

· Sight-reading: complicated rhythms (knowledge of use of subdivision of

beats)

· Etudes: Schlossberg: Daily Drills and Technical Studies

Theo. Charlier: 36 Etudes Transcendates

The equivalent

REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE:

Current university level band and orchestra literature

Repertoire: MM and DMA:

Your program must include one from the following: Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E; Hindemith: Sonata for Trumpet; Hummel: Concerto in E, or Halsey Stevens: Sonata for Trumpet.