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Audition requirements

UNCP PERCUSSION AUDITION REQUIREMENTS - Undergraduate and Graduate Thesis Track

All students wishing to major in music with a percussion emphasis or to perform with the UNCP Percussion Ensemble must audition. Suggested repertoire is as follows:

Snare Drum:

1 rudimental solo - Hurley, Pratt, etc.
1 concert solo or etude - Cirone, Delecluse, Lepak, Firth, etc.
Play a concert style roll which crescendos from piano to fortissimo, and decrescendos back to piano over one minute.
Excerpts are not required but are recommended.

Keyboards:

1 two mallet solo or etude - ragtime solos, all state etudes, etc.
1 four mallet solo (not required, but highly recommended)
Major scales and arpeggios - 2 octaves
Excerpts are not required but are recommended.

Timpani:

1 solo or etude - Firth, Goodman, Hinger, Beck, etc.
Timpani excerpts are not required, but are again recommended.
Tuning and pitch matching will be tested.

Drum set and ethnic percussion are not required for the audition.

Keyboard and/or snare drum sight reading will be required of all who audition. If it is determined that a student has a deficiency in sightreading skills they will be required to participate in lab band (Fridays at 8:00 am) to correct the deficiency.

If you have any questions or concerns about your repertoire please contact Dr. Wiggins.

 

UNCP PERCUSSION AUDITION REQUIREMENTS - Graduate Performance Track

All works selected should be at a senior recital level of difficulty. See jury levels for further examples.

Snare Drum:

1 work in the concert style. Examples: Noble Snare Works; Delecluse; Nexus Works.

Excerpts: Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
Prokofiev - Lt. Kije

Play a concert style roll which crescendos from piano to fortissimo, and decrescendos back to piano over one minute.

Keyboards:

1 four mallet solo work. Examples: Bach; Abe; Tanaka; Smadbeck

Excerpts: Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
Shostakovich - Polka

All major and minor scales, two octaves with arpeggios
I-IV-V-IV-V7-I chord progression in all major keys

Timpani:

1 solo recital work. Examples: Carter; Williams; Brun; Bergamo; Beck; Cahn

Excerpts: Schuman - Be Glad Then America
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 4

Tuning and pitch matching will be tested.

Auxiliary

Excerpts: Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 4 - Cymbals

Drumset/World Percussion

1 work for drum set and/or ethnic percussion . This can be a solo work for drumset, hand-drums, steel drum, etc.

Keyboard and/or snare drum sight reading will be required of all who audition.

If you have any questions or concerns about your repertoire please contact Dr. Wiggins.

DRUMSET MAJORS

Students in either of the BA degrees may choose drumset as their prinicpal instrument. There will be sightreading of both drumset charts and snare drum music on the audition.

STYLES

Demonstrate the following styles with a “play along” CD music track

1) 12 Bar Blues Shuffle (w/ backbeat on 2 & 4)
2) 12 Bar Blues Jazz/Swing Time, Medium Tempo (“Freddie the Freeloader”)
3) Bossa Nova.  High Hat, then Ride Cymbal, High Hat on 2 & 4.
 (“Girl from Ipanema”, “Blue Bossa”)
4) Funk/R&B Groove (“Cold Sweat”, James Brown)
5) Afro Cuban Mambo (“Mambo Inn”)
6) 6/8 Afro Cuban Bembe (“Footprints”)

TECHNIQUE

1) 3 Bars of Funk Groove, 1 Bar Fill
2) Paradiddle, Double Paradiddle, Paradiddle-Diddle
3) 5, 6, 9 stroke rolls

READING

1) Read example IB, IIA from New Breed by Gary Chester
a) on snare drum only
b) with Bass Drum, over 8ths on the high hat

2) Read Syncopation Solo #1 from Ted Reed with swing 8ths over Jazz Ride, High Hat on 2 & 4

Audition Dates

November 10, 2012

January 26, 2013

February 9, 2013

April 20, 2013

Other dates can be arranged with Dr. Wiggins if you cannot make the scheduled dates!

Please apply for admission to the University before coming to audition for the music faculty.

 

Please apply for admission to the University before coming to audition for the music faculty.

 

Updated: Thursday, August 30, 2012

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