Scales – please play for the full range of the instrument. A song that exhibits your unique musical personality (such as a contrasting genre or an original composition).Please improvise or sing an embellished version of the melody on the second chorus. A song with a straight-eighth feel – Latin, Samba, or Bossa Nova.Please include 2-3 choruses of improvisation or embellished melody. A blues song in a jazz/swing feel, performed at medium tempo.Please sing three choruses with improvisation or an embellished melody on the second chorus. One (1) song from the Great American Songbook (Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc.) Sung in a swing feel, at a medium or medium-up tempo.All melodies should be sung with your own interpretation, but using the correct pitches. Scat singing (vocal improvisation) is encouraged but not required. Repertoire – may record with a track or a live rhythm section. One (1) harmonic minor scale in any key.Scales – one octave ascending & descending on solfege, numbers, letters, or a vowel of your choice. Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger – letter J to letter N.Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals: The Elephant, Allegretto Pomposo – beginning to eight (8) after rehearsal #4.40, mvmt 3 – beginning to the trio, no repeats One (1) standard orchestra excerpt from the list below:.Two (2) contrasting movements of a Baroque concerto or sonata.One (1) scale of the applicants choice and corresponding arpeggio – major or minor, two or three octaves.One (1) technical study or etude (examples: Dotzauer, Popper, Schroeder, or a suitable equivalent).Two (2) contrasting works from the standard cello repertoire that best displays the applicant’s current musical and technical abilities.One (1) technical study or etude ( examples: Kayser, Mazas, or a suitable equivalent).Two (2) contrasting works from the standard viola repertoire that best displays the applicant’s current musical and technical abilities.A technical etude of your choice (examples: Kayser, Fiorillo, Dont, Gavines, Paganini, or suitable equivalents).Two contrasting works from the standard violin repertoire (one memorized preferred, but not required).Prepare one (1) major and one (1) minor scale with corresponding arpeggios, two – three octaves (three octave preferred, but not required).LIST C Scarlatti Pasquini Soler Coelho or another Italian or Iberian composer Sweelinck or another German or Flemish composer Candidates must prepare four pieces, one each from Lists A, B, C, and D.Music Education, Music Therapy, Theory/Composition John Miller at this email address: Harpsichord The hymn should include all stanzas preceded by an introductionĪ short diagnostic keyboard skills exam will also be conducted.Īny questions may be directed to Prof. Additionally, the applicant should prepare a hymn as if one were playing for an assembly.Two pieces by Romantic or Contemporary composers, one of which being lyrical and the other virtuosic.One Baroque piece, ideally a major work by J.S.LIST D Bartók, Copland, Debussy, Fauré, Granados, Kabalevsky, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Tcherepnin, Villa Lobos or another composer born since 1874 OrganĪll applicants to the organ program should prepare three pieces of repertoire from the major periods of organ composition LIST C Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Schumann or another Romantic composer LIST B Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart or another Classical composer Bach, Rameau, Scarlatti, Soler or another Baroque composer Candidates must prepare three pieces, one each from Lists A, B, C, or D.Undergraduate Music Education, Music Therapy, Theory/Composition One complete major work (concerto, sonata, or suite).Two contrasting etudes demonstrating technique and sound development.Two contrasting pieces from the standard solo repertoire, 10 minutes of music (one may be an etude).Performance concentration (in addition to above) Two contrasting pieces from the standard solo repertoire (one may be an etude such as a characteristic study by Arban).Music Education, Music Therapy, Theory/Composition concentrations