2016 – 2017 Audition Excerpts
Percussion
ALL PARTS
Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Sergei Prokofiev
- I: The Birth of Kijé, II: Romance, III: Kijé’s Wedding, IV: Troika & V: The Burial of Kijé
TIMPANI
Symphony No. 9, 2nd Movement, Scherzo by Beethoven
- whole excerpt
Concerto for Orchestra, 4th Movement, Intermezzo Interrotto by Bartók
- measures 42 to 51
XYLOPHONE
The Golden Age by Shostakovich
- whole excerpt
Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
- Page 122 (as printed)
L’Apprentí Sorcier by Paul Dukas
- Whole passage
SNARE DRUM
Star Wars – Main Title by John Williams
- Marked passage
Symphony No. 4, 3rd Movement by Johannes Brahms
The percussion part is available for download through IMLSP under the Sheet Music heading. Scroll
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Symphony No. 1 by Shostakovich
- Movement #1, rehearsal 24
- Movement #1, rehearsal 35
- Movement #4, rehearsal 18
TAMBOURINE
Carnival Overture by Dvořák
- Whole excerpt
MULTIPLE PERCUSSION
March du Soldat, from L’Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky
- Marked passage