2012 SCSBOA Middle School Honor Groups Audition Requirements

1. Prepare the required solo/excerpt(s) listed for your instrument. Note: Winds & Percussion - solos are the same as CBDA Junior High School Honor Band 2. Prepare the required scales listed for your instrument. Note: Winds & Percussion - scales are the same as CBDA Junior High School Honor Band. Print woodwind, brass, & percussion scale sheets from the CBDA website: http://www.cbda.org/jhs/scales2012.html Note: Strings scales should start and end on the tonic. Spiccato scale is done with single bowed 8th notes, not two bows per note. 3. Be prepared to sight read. 4. Make sure you check the ERRATA LIST on the SCSBOA website often for any mistakes or changes to audition selections or scales. FLUTE (& PICCOLO) A & Eb Major and chromatic Scherzino, op. 55 No. 6 J. Andersen from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Bar 60 to End Andante and Allegro, J.B. Loeillet from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) All (no repeat) Minuet of the Oxen, F.J. Haydn From Classic Festival Solos Book 1 Compiled by Jack Lamb (Belwin) All (take 2nd endings) Scherzo in C Minor, P. Koepke from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) m. 32 to End

OBOE A & Eb Major and chromatic

BASSOON Bb & G Major and chromatic

Bb CLARINET A & F Major and chromatic

BASS CLARINET & CONTRA BASS CLARINET Eb & G Major and chromatic Sarabande and Bouree, J.S. Bach, arr Hervig from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) All (no repeats and take 2nd endings) ALTO SAXOPHONE A & Eb Major and chromatic Canzona and Giga, L. Ostransky from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Beginning to m. 48; then pick up to 9 bars after Con Spirito to End

TENOR SAXOPHONE A & Eb Major and chromatic

Two Little Tales, Y. Desportes from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) I. Beginning to m. 18 II. mm. 13 to 28 Introduction and Theme, Paganini arr. Leonard from Classic Festival Solos Complied by Jack Lamb All (no repeats) Andante and Allegro, R. Clerisse from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Beginning through m. 16; then Allegro moderato to End Romanza and Rondo, W.A. Mozart from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Romanza: mm. 21 to 46 Rondo: Beginning to m. 24 Sarabande and Vivace, G.F. Handel from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Sarabande: mm. 1 to 16 (omit trills) Vivace: All (no repeats)

BARITONE SAXOPHONE A & Eb Major and chromatic

TRUMPET G & Eb Major and chromatic

FRENCH HORN G & Eb Major and chromatic

TROMBONE D & F Major and chromatic

EUPHONIUM Sarabanda and Gavotte, A. Corelli B.C.: D & F Major and chrom from Concert & Contest Collection T.C.: E & G Major and chrom Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) All (no repeats) TUBA D & Eb Major and chromatic Two Short Pieces, G.F. Handel from Concert & Contest Collection Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank) Aria: mm. 1 to 22 Bourre: All (no repeats; play bottom notes)

PERCUSSION - Percussionists must play the required scales and all three solos in the order listed below. There are NO mallet specialist auditions. Mallets D & G Major and chromatic Sonata, G.F. Handel (p. 10) from Masterpieces for Marimba Thomas McMillian (Belwin) Beginning to beat 3 in m. 20 (no repeats) Snare Drum Solo #14, (p. 26) from Intermediate Snare Drum Studies Mitchell Peters (Mitchell Peters) All Timpani Etude #12 (p. 140) from Fundamental Method for Timpani Mitchell Peters (Alfred) All

VIOLIN

Scales Bb Major- 3 octaves/slurred 1 bow up and 1 bow down A Major- 3 octaves, spiccato Q N=120-140, single 8th notes ascending H Excerpt 1 #45, Mazas from 27 Brilliant Studies, Opus 36, Book 2 QN=88-104 Spiccato, measures 1-18 Excerpt 2 Play a one minute excerpt from a violin solo of your choice. Scales C Major- 3 octaves - slurred 1 bow up and 1 bow down D Major- spiccato QN=120-140, single 8th notes ascending H Excerpt 1 #1 Largo, J. F. Mazas from Etudies Speciales Opus 36, Bk. 1 (Schirmer/Mogill) QN=60, meas. 1 through 24 Excerpt 2 Play a one minute excerpt from a viola solo of your choice. Scales D Major- 3 octave, spiccato, QN=120-140, single 8th notes ascending H F Major- 2 or 3 octaves, slurred 1 bow up and 1 bow down Excerpt 1 #66 Allegro, Dotzauer 8th note =120 or faster, meas. 1-15 from 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello, Vol. 1 (Alwin Schroeder) Excerpt 2 Play a one minute excerpt from a cello solo of your choice.

VIOLA

CELLO

STRING BASS - DO NOT play the scales from the CBDA website. Play the following: Scales A Major- 2 octaves, 2 slurred QN=90-120 F Major- 2 slurred down, 2 up bows, QN=100-140 Excerpt 1 Minuet in D, J.S. Bach/arr. George Vance from Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass, Vol. 2 (Carl Fisher) Excerpt 2 Play a one minute excerpt from a bass solo of your choice.