HS Band Audition Excerpts

2026-27

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
Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) "Ruffard Park Poachers"
Variations on a Revolutionary Hymn (Smith)
25 Romantic Etudes (Ernesto Kohler), No. 12 "Hand in Hand."

Flute
Petite Symphonie (Charles Gounod), II.
Symphony No. 7 (Ludwig van Beethoven), I.
25 Romantic Etudes (Ernesto Kohler), No. 12 "Hand in Hand."

Oboe
Variations on a Shaker Melody (Aaron Copland)
Symphony in E Minor (Amy Beach)
Articulation Study No. 2 (A. M. R. Barret)

Bassoon
American Salute (Morton Gould)
Concert Study No. 5 (Ludwig Milde)
50 Advanced Studies No. 13 (Julius Weissenborn)

Clarinet
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith),II.
32 Etudes (Cyrille Rose), No. 18
32 Etudes (Cyrille Rose), No. 1

Bass Clarinet and Contra Bass Clarinet
Sinfonietta (Ingolf Dahl)
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger)
21 Foundational Studies (Kaspar Kummer)

Alto Saxophone
Suite Français (Darius Milhaud), Provence
Selected Studies for Saxophone (H. Voxman), E Minor
49 Studies (Franz Ferling), No. 14

Tenor Sax
Molly on the Shore (Percy Grainger)
Selected Studies for Saxophone (H. Voxman), E Minor
48 Studies (Franz Ferling), No. 14

Bari Sax
Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger), Lisbon
Selected Studies for Saxophone (H. Voxman), E Minor
48 Studies (Franz Ferling), No. 14

Trumpet
Variations on America (Charles Ives), Var. V
Lyrical Studies (Giuseppe Concone), No. 23
Selected Studies for Trumpet (Himie Voxman), B Minor

Horn
The Hounds of Spring (Alfred Reed)
60 Selected Studies (Georg Kopprasch), No. 8
60 Selected Studies (Georg Kopprasch), No. 17

Trombone
The Quilting Party March (John Phillip Sousa)
Melodius Etudes (Rochut) No. 7
40 Progressive Etudes (Tyrrell), No. 3

Euphonium
Vientos y Tangos (Michael Gandolfi)
Melodius Etudes (Joannes Rochut), No. 6
Characteristic Study (J.B. Arban), No. 1

Tuba
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith) Bottom of Page, starting on C#
Etude No. 9 (Marco Bordogni)
Etude No. 30 (Georg Kopprasch)

Snare Drum
Etude No. 4 (Jeff Smikahl)

Percussion
Bass Drum - Etude 1 (John Wickersham)
Mallets - play the xylophone, Gayane Ballet (Aram Khachaturian), Dance of the Rose Maidens
Timpani - 2 Timpani excerpt - Rotation No. 4 (John Wikersham)