2008-2009 All-State Orchestra Audition Material      

Updated 8/20/08

Performance music excerpts for each instrument are posted via PDF files below.

This website is the official listing of the Orchestra Division All-State Audition Material. All amendments, corrections and errata will become official only when it is published there.

Errata will not be posted in Southwestern Musician magazine. Should you discover any errata in the music that may have been missed, please email the State Orchestra Division Chair, James Edwards.

Please adhere to the following:

1. Editions listed.
2. Metronomic parameters.
3. Bowings, styles, fingerings and specific notations.

Judges will be instructed to penalize students that do not follow these guidelines.

2008-2009 Orchestra Etudes & Excerpts
Download performance excerpt PDF below.

VIOLIN

• Jacques Dont/Galamian: Twenty-Four Studies for the Violin, Op. 37, IMC

  • #19 (Andante) - Tempo:  Quarter note = 54-60
• Rode/Galamian: 24 Caprices for the Violin, IMC

  • #6 (Moderato Only) - Tempo:  Quarter note = 112-120

Violin excerpts (PDF)

VIOLA

• Mazas:  Etudes Speciales, Op. 36, Bk 1;  Schirmer

  • #28 - Tempo:  Dotted Quarter note = 74-82  (Off the string)
  • Errata
    • m. 29-35 - grace-notes are to be played before the beat. (8/18/2008)
    • The bowing in measure 46 should be the same as measure 48;
      slur 4, 2 separate, slur 2, 4 separate. (5/14/08)
    • m. 50-54 - grace-notes are on the beat, along with the fz. (8/18/2008)
    • m. 59 and 60 - The A's should be played natural (5/21/08)
• Campagnoli: 41 Caprices, Op. 22 for Viola, Peters

  • #32 (Larghetto)  - Tempo:  Eighth note = 102-110
  • Errata
    • The correct fine is at the end of m. 8 (5/21/08)
    • m. 30 - no slur between the first two notes. (8/18/2008)

Viola excerpts (PDF)

CELLO

• Popper: 40 Etudes, Op.73 for Cello, IMC

  • #10 (Appassionato) - Tempo:  Quarter note = 80-88
• Duport: Twenty-One Etudes Book 1 for Cello, Schirmer

  • #1 (Andante) - Tempo:  Quarter note = 56-64
  • Errata
    • m. 10 - the last three notes should read E, F natural, F sharp
      (instead of E, F sharp, G) (5/21/08)

Cello excerpts (PDF)

BASS

• Lee/Zimmerman: 12 Studies, Op. 31, IMC

  • #7 (Moderato) - Tempo:  Quarter note = 86-94
• F. Simandl/Drew: New Method for the Double Bass, Book 2, Carl Fischer

  • #2, pp. 78-79 - (Tempo I Moderato, Measure 48 to End Only) - Tempos:
    • Moderato - Quarter note = 78-86
    • Andante quasi Recitativo - Quarter note=70-74
    • Adagio - Quarter note = 58-62
    • Piu stratto - Quarter note = 90-98
  • Errata
    • m. 81 - The thirteenth note is C natural (5/7/08)

Bass excerpts (PDF)

HARP

• Handel:  Concerto in Bb; (Salzedo), G. Schirmer, Inc.

  • First two pages only (5/2/08)
  • Tempo: Quarter Note = 84-92
• Chopin:  Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 (Yolanda Kondonassis Collection) Carl Fischer

  • Tempo:  Eighth Note = 60-66

Harp excerpts (PDF)

PIANO

• Bach:  Prelude No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. I; Henle, Kalmus

  • Tempo:  Quarter Note = 96-100
• Mendelssohn:  Song Without Words in C Major, Op. 102, No. 3,“Tarantella” (Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Pianoforte Solo, Vol. 2); Dover

  • Tempo:  Dotted Quarter = 116-120 (Omit the repeat)

Piano excerpts (PDF)

• Errata
  • Piano Excerpt #1 - Two Scenes from the Umegae, mvt. 2, Mosier
    • dotted quarter equals 60-68 (8/20/2008)

If you have any questions, please email them to James Edwards at:
JEdwards@eanesisd.net

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Updated: 08/20/2008