Woodwinds

Each audition recording should include scales unless otherwise noted. Sight-reading will take place during the faculty interview portion. To submit a recording, students must apply first through the regular Gettysburg College application process. Students will then be able to upload their recordings to their application portal. For individual instrument requirements, please see below.

Flute

All degree areas:

• All major scales
• Chromatic scale 3 octaves
• Two contrasting works that demonstrate your full range of technical and lyrical ability. Works can be selected from or similar to: 
  • Sonatas (J.S. Bach, Handel, Telemann, Poulenc, Hindemith)
  • Mozart Concertos
  • Any of the French Conservatory Pieces (Chaminade, Enesco, Gaubert, Taffanel, Faure, Doppler)
  • Solo works such as Debussy Syrinx, Honegger Danse de la Chevre, CPE Bach Sonata in a minor, Telemann Fantasies, JS Bach Partita in a minor
  • Contemporary works of 20th and 21st century

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Oboe

• All major scales
• Chromatic scale

Bachelor of Music in Performance

Perform three compositions or movements which demonstrate contrasting styles

• Ferling, Etudes
• Saint Saens, Sonata
• Poulenc, Sonata
• Haydn, Concerto
• Mozart, Concerto

Bachelor of Arts in Music, Bachelor of Music Education, and Music Minor

Perform two compositions or movements which demonstrate contrasting styles

• Barret, Melodic Studies
• Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
• Handel, Sonatas
• Schumann, Romances
• Cimarosa, Concerto
• Marcello, Concerto

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Clarinet

• Major Scales up to four sharps/flats two octaves slurred and articulated.
• Chromatic Scale two or three octaves.

Bachelor of Music in Performance

Perform three compositions which demonstrate contrasting styles.

• Cavallini, Adagio and Tarantella
• Mozart, Concerto in A Major
• Opperman, Un Seul
• Osborne, Rhapsody
• Poulenc, Sonata
• Weber, Concerto no. 2 in Eb Major

Bachelor of Arts in Music, Bachelor of Music Education, and Music Minor

Perform two compositions or movements which demonstrate contrasting styles

• Finzi, Five Bagatelles
• Jacob, Five Pieces
• Saint-Säens, Sonata
• Stamitz, Concerto no. 3
• Vaughn Williams, Six Studies on English Folk Song
• Weber, Concertino

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Saxophone

All degree areas:

• Major scales, all
• Chromatic scale, full range
• Two contrasting works displaying both technical and lyrical playing. Possible repertoire could include, among other works:
  • Bozza, Aria
  • Bozza, Improvisation et Caprice
  • Creston, Sonata
  • D’Indy, Choral Varie
  • Dubois, Concerto
  • Ferling, Etudes
  • Glazunov, Concerto
  • Heiden, Solo
  • Heiden, Sonata
  • Maurice, Tableaux de Provence
  • Rueff, Chanson et Passepied
  • Singelee, Concertino
  • Still, Romance

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Bassoon

All degree areas:

• TWO contrasting movements of a solo work of your choice 
  - i.e. one lyrical and one technical movements concerto or sonata
  - the movements can be from different solo works
•  TWO contrasting etudes of your choice 
  - e.g. Weissenborn, Milde