Audition Requirements

CELLO


Music Education Major

  • SCALES
    • Scales in 3 octaves, Major and Melodic Minor, and 3-octave arpeggios for these keys (from memory)
  • ETUDES - one from the following, its equivalent or more advanced:
    • Schroeder, Foundation Studies, Bk. 2 (any one)
  • SOLOS - one from the following, its equivalent or more advanced:
    • J. S. Bach, any of the Unaccompanied Suites (2 contrasting movements)
    • Saint-Saens, Allegro Appassionato
    • Bruch, Kol Nidre
    • Faure, Elegie

Applied Music Major

  • SCALES
    • Scales in 3 octaves, Major and Melodic Minor, and the 3-octave arpeggio system for these keys, found in the Galamian/Jensen Scale Studies book (from memory)
  • ETUDES - one from the following, its equivalent or more advanced:
    • DuPort - Etudes (any one)
    • Popper, High school of Cello Playing (any one)
  • SOLOS
    • First movement of a major Classical, Romantic or 20th-Century concerto (from memory)
    • Bach, J.S., any of the Unaccompanied Suites (2 contrasting movements, from memory)

Bachelor of Arts, Minors, Merit, and Honors

Same as for Music Education.



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