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St. Cloud State University

Department of Music St. Cloud State University

Brass Auditions
   
   

Scales (required for both entrance and scholarship auditions)

  • Our programs are founded in artistry and scholarship and prepare students for the future. Music will be performed, created, studied and taught with excellence.For all brass instruments
    • 1 octave major scales through 4 flats and sharps (concert pitch), tongued and slurred.
    • Scholarship applicants should strive for 2 octave scales when applicable.
    • 2 octave chromatic scale, tongued and slurred.
    • Scholarship applicants should strive for a chromatic scale that encompasses your range.

Recommended Etudes and Solos

Literature choice for all auditions is not limited to the repertoire listed below, but should be at a comparable level.

* Suggested scholarship audition literature.

Trumpet

  • Etudes
    • Brandt: Etudes for Trumpet
    • * Arban: Complete Method for Trumpet/Characteristic Studies
  • Solos
    • Hummel: Concerto
    • Goedicke: Concert Etude
    • * Haydn: Concerto

Horn

  • Etudes
    • Gallay: 12 Studies, Op. 57
    • * Koprasch: 60 Selected Studies for French Horn
  • Solos
    • Jones, M.: Solos for the Horn Player
    • Saint-Saens: Romance, Op. 36
    • Dukas: Villanelle
    • * Mozart: Any of the four concertos
    • * Strauss, R.: First Horn Concerto

Trombone

  • Etudes
    • Hering: 40 Progressive Etudes
    • Arban / Mantia: Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium
    • * Bordogni/Rochut: Melodious Etudes for Trombone
  • Solos
    • Ropartz: Andante and Allegro
    • Smith, H. C.: Solos for the Trombone Player
    • Voxman: Concert and Contest Collection
    • * Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique
    • *Marcello: Sonata in G minor

Euphonium / Baritone

  • Etudes
    • Bordogni / Rochut-Melodious Etudes for Trombone
    • * Arban / Mantia-Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium
  • Solos
    • Voxman: Concert and Contest Collection
    • * Barat: Andante and Allegro
    • * Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique

Tuba

  • Etudes
    • Concone/Shoemaker-Legato Etudes
    • Blazevich: Concert Etudes, vol.1
    • * Arban/Bell-Complete Method for Tuba
  • Solos
    • Vaughan-Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
    • Wekselblatt: First Solos for the Tuba Player
    • Voxman: Concert and Contest Collection
    • * Haddad: Suite for Tuba

For more information on scholarships contact

Dr. Marion Judish, Scholarship Committee Chair
mjudish@StCloudState.edu / (320) 308-3289