Euphonium Auditions – Fall 2019

In addition to the following excepts, students will need to have prepared a full-range chromatic scale (E below the staff to Bb four lines above the staff, more or less) in eighth notes at quarter = 120 or greater.

In addition, scales appropriate to your level will be required. Two octaves are required for each scale in the

following format:

If range is an issue, play scales in the following format:

Excerpts

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (Bydlo)

Sousa’s Fairest of the Fair (beginning to first note of first ending)

Holst’s First Suite in Eb (pickup to 7th measure to the end - LOOK AT THE CLEF)

Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever (Ignore brackets…Stop after first note of first ending)

Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture (beginning until the 6/8)

Schuman’s Circus Overture (omit the last bar)

Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posey – Mvts IV and V (LOOK AT THE CLEF)