Graduate Audition Requirements
Entrance Audition Requirements and Recommendations:
The Audition is essential requisite for piano majors in the Department
of Music graduate admission process. Candidates may submit a tape-recording
of their performance should time or distance make a in-person audition
impossible. In submitting a taped audition, care must be taken in
the selection of recording equipment to ensure good results.
Cassette tapes or videocassettes are acceptable.
The audition should feature three contrasting pieces from a variety
of stylistic periods demonstrating the applicant's musical ability in regard
to tone, technique, pitch and expressiveness. Applicants are free
to choose works from those recommended below or music of comparable quality,
and prepared to play scales in all keys. Applicants should also submit
a repertoire list of works studied during the previous four years.
Master of Music (Piano Performance or Piano Pedagogy):
Applicants for a degree in Piano Performance are required to present
a memorized 30 minute program featuring three major contrasting pieces
from the four stylistic periods. Prospective graduate Piano Pedagogy
majors
are to present a 20 minute program featuring three contrasting selections
from the four stylistic periods. Memory is required for one selection.
The suggestions below indicate the level of music appropriate for a master's
audition:
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Baroque-- a contrapuntal work equivalent in difficulty to a three-voice
fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier;
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Classical -- a sonata by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven;
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Romantic-- a work by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms etc.;
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Twentieth Century -- a work by impressionists (Debussy, Ravel etc.)
or other contemporaneous works.
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