Cello Audition 2018/19 Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition 1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.) 3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment. 4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition. ORCHESTRAS Excerpt 1: Peters, Melody Quarter Note = 100 Time Signature = 4/4
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Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
ORCHESTRAS
Excerpt 1: Peters, Melody
Quarter Note = 100 Time Signature = 4/4
Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 2: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, mvt. I, mm. 1-16
Quarter Note = 96 Time Signature = 2/2
Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 3: Beethoven, Symphony No. 1, mvt. 1: from m. 73 to downbeat of m. 90 Half Note = 104 Time Signature = 2/2
Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 4: Schubert, Rosamunde Overture: from B to downbeat of C Half Note = 116
Time Signature = 2/2
Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 5: Dvorák, Symphony No. 9, mvt. 1: from 13th bar of fig. 7 to 4th bar of fig. 8
Quarter Note = 132 Time Signature = 2/4
Cello Audition 2018/19
Be prepared to perform all components of your chosen audition
1. One major or minor scale with arpeggio that best demonstrates your ability level. 2. Play the bracketed selection of any two of the excerpts below. Please choose
excerpts that you can prepare thoroughly and play well; playing excerpts that are too difficult will usually lower your score. (Less advanced players can choose to play only the first excerpt.)
3. A brief solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 2-3 minute selection performed without accompaniment.
4. Sight reading that will be selected by the judges at the audition.
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Excerpt 6: Bernstein, West Side Story Symphonic Dances: mm. 656-684
Half Note = 84 Time Signature = 2/2 NOTE: Swing eighth-notes, play top part in divisi
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