Clarinet Audition Repertoire

Applied Music (Performance), Music Education, Composition, Theory, and History and Literature Majors

• Etudes - Chose two contrasting etudes from the following:

• Cavallini: 30 Caprices
• Rose: 32 Etudes or 40 Studies

• Solos - chose one work from the following:

• Saint-Saens: Sonata
• Messager: Solo de Concours
• Weber: Concertino
• Weber: Concerto No. 1
• Rabaud: Solo de Concours
• Osborne: Rhapsody
• Bernstein: Sonata
• Cavallini: Adagio and Tarantella

• Scales

All undergraduate clarinet applicants should prepare all major scales and arpeggios, two octaves or three octaves (E, F, F-sharp/G-flat, G), and a three-octave chromatic scale from chalumeau E to altissimo E.

Applied Music (Performance)

• Two contrasting etudes from the works of Polatschek, Uhl, Jeanjean or Rose
• One classical or romantic solo work
• One 20th or 21st century solo work
• The following orchestral excerpts:
• ​​​Brahms - Symphony No. 3: solos from mvts. 1 and 2
• Mendelssohn – Scherzo: beginning to m. 48
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 6: solos from mvts. 1, 2 and 3
• Ravel – Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2: opening through 3 measures before rehearsal no. 158