HS Band Audition Excerpts

2025-26

Music Requirements for Live Auditions (Wind Players)

1. A chromatic scale slurred up and tongued down, quarter note MM= 60, as written on the instrument specific audition packet.
2. One major scale, as written on the instrument specific audition packet, with up to 4 sharps or 4 flats. Quarter Note MM= 60. Memorization is not required. All scales will start on the notes indicated on the scale sheet for their instrument. Each scale is non-transposed (i.e., if a trumpet player is asked to perform a C scale, they will be expected to perform a C scale on their instrument, not a C concert scale.) The major scale for each instrument will be posted by the band chairpersons on the morning of live auditions.
3. Sections from the required etudes/solos in the instrument specific audition packet (See below).
4. Sight reading.

Music Requirements for Live Auditions (Percussionists)

1. Sections from the required etudes/solos in the instrument specific audition packet (See below).
2. Sight reading on both snare drum and mallets.

Piccolo
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" (Leonard Bernstein)
The Chimes of Liberty (Edwin Franko Goldman)
25 Studies No. 16 (Louis Francois Drouet)

Flute
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (Georges Bizet)
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith)
25 Studies No. 25 (Louis Francois Drouet)

Oboe
Four Scottish Dances (Malcolm Arnold)
Slavonic Dances (Antonin Dvorak)
Forty Progressive Melodies No. 8 (A. M. R. Barret) (Start Line 3 Measure 4)

Bassoon
Suite in Eb (Gustav Holst)
50 Advanced Studies No. 21 (Julius Weissenborn)
Concert Study No. 6 (Ludwig Milde)

Clarinet
Overture to "Egmont" (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
Sea Songs (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
32 Etudes No. 26 (Cyrille Rose)

Bass Clarinet and Contra Bass Clarinet
Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland)
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith)
Lyrical Etude in Eb Major (Carl Baermann)

Alto Saxophone
Rolling Thunder (Henry Fillmore)
48 Studies No. 19 (Franz Ferling)
48 Studies No. 18 (Franz Ferling)

Tenor Sax
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger)
48 Studies No. 18 (Franz Ferling)
48 Studies No. 19 (Franz Ferling)

Bari Sax
Blue Shades (Frank Ticheli)
48 Studies No. 19 (Franz Ferling)
48 Studies No. 18 (Franz Ferling)

Trumpet
Florentiner March (Julius Fucik)
Divertimento for Band (Vincent Persichetti), Soliloquoy
Celebrated Studies (Narcisse Bosquet), No. 3

French Horn
American Overture (Joseph W. Jenkins)
60 Selected Studies (Georg Kopprasch), No. 15
28 Etudes (Oskar Franz), No. 10

Trombone
The Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)
40 Progressive Studies (Tyrrell), No. 2
Melodius Etudes (Rochut), No. 15

Euphonium
The Klaxon (Henry Fillmore)
Melodius Etudes (Joannes Rochut), No. 16
Characteristic Study (J.B. Arban), No. 1

Tuba
Overture to Rienzi Part 2
Etude No. 19 (Bordogni) "Swimming with the Trout"
Etude No. 3 (Georg Kopprasch)

Percussion
Etude No. 3 (Jeff Smikahl)
Colas Breugnon Overture (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
Rotation No. 3 (John Wickersham)