Department of Music: St. Cloud State University

Scales (required for both entrance and scholarship auditions)

For all woodwind instruments

2 octave major scales (if instrument range permits), ascending and descending, up to and including 3 flats and sharps.
Chromatic scale (ascending and descending):
- Flute: low d to high g (2 1/2 octaves)-Scholarship applicants on flute: low c to high Bb
- Clarinet: low e to high e (3 octaves)-Scholarship applicants on clarinet: low e to high g
- Saxophone low d to high d (2 octaves)
- Oboe low d to high d (2 octaves)
- Bassoon low Bb to high Bb (2 octaves)
Scholarship applicants should strive for 2 octave major scales when applicable.

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.

Flute

Etudes
- Melodious and Progressive Studies, Books I and II
- * Andersen Etudes (any)
Solos
- Cavally: 24 Short Concert Pieces
- Voxman: Concert and Contest Collection
- * Mozart: Concerto movement (G or D)
- * Schirmer: Flute Music by French Composers (any)

Oboe

Etudes
- Rubank: Advanced Methof for Oboe, vol. I
- Blaine/Edlefsen: Method for Oboe, vol. III
- Barret: Oboe Method-40 Progressive Melodies
Solos
- Everybody’s Favorite Oboe Solos, ed. J. Arnold (2nd half)
- Albinoni: Concerto in d minor, Op. 9, no. 2
- * Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
- * Telemann: Sonata in a minor

Clarinet

Etudes
- Hendrickson: Method for Clarinet, Book II
- Endresen: Supplementary Studies for Clarinet (Rubank)
- Hite: Melodious and Progressive Etudes, vol. I
Solos
- Classical Album for Clarinet (Boosey and Hawkes)
- Osborne: Rhapsody
- Stamitz: Concerto No. 3, 1st or 3rd mvt.
- * C.M. von Weber/Strasser: Concertino Op.26 (Carl Fischer)
- * Mozart: Andante cantabile, K 545 (Billadout)

Bassoon

Etudes
- Weissenborn: 50 Advanced Studies (any)
- Rubank: Advanced Method for Bassoon (any)
Solos
- Galliard: 6 Sonatas, vol. I
- Schoenbach: Solos for the Bassoon Player
- * Hindemith: Bassoon Sonata
- * Telemann: Sonata in f minor

Saxophone

Etudes
- Selected Studies for Saxophone (Vol. 1) Voxman (any)
Solos
- G.F. Handel: Sonata No. 3-Adagio and Allegro; arr. Rascer
- Voxman: Concert and Contest Collection
- * Creston: Sonata (Opus 19), first movement

For more information on scholarships contact

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

St. Cloud State University

Music Department - St. Cloud State University

Scales (required for both entrance and scholarship auditions)

Recommended Etudes and Solos

Flute

Oboe

Clarinet

Bassoon

Saxophone

Music (contact information)

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