Music Excerpts - Santa Barbara Youth Symphony

Santa Barbara Youth Symphony
Audition Excerpts

Please take the time to listen to the music before you start working on the excerpts and as you move forward. Understanding the style of the music and finding tempi goals will assist in your preparation.

Rhythm is very important. If your excerpt is in a steady tempo, make sure that you’re not compressing or rushing. Show the committee that you know and understand the style of the excerpt.

If you have trouble playing at the tempo you hear in recordings, it is ok to perform the excerpt at the slower tempo you can manage. The Committee is listening for many things in your playing, not just speed.

Please ask your teacher for help in preparing the excerpts.

Please note that some of the excerpts contain small rests (1 or 2 measures). These are meant to be counted (performed) in audition—not to be skipped over.

All parts are 1st parts unless otherwise marked.

Violin	Mendelssohn Mozart	Midsummer’s Night Dream, Scherzo, m. 17 to 7 after Letter D Symph. #39, mvt. 2, m. 1-27
Viola	Beethoven Mozart	Symph. #5, mvt. 2, m. 1-10, 98-106 Symph. #40, mvt.1, m. 114-138
Cello	Beethoven Mozart	Symph. #5, mvt. 2, m. 1-10, 47-59, 98-106,114-123 Symph. #35, m. 134-170
Bass	Beethoven Mozart	Symph. #5, mvt. 3, m. 1-71 Symph. #40, mvt.1, m114-138
Flute	Brahms Debussy	Symph. #4, mvt. 4, m. 93-105 Afternoon of the Faun, 2 to 3
Piccolo	Beethoven Tchaikovsky	Symph. #5, mvt. 4. m. 69-723 Symph. #4, Finale, A to B (must audition on Flute)
Oboe	Beethoven Tchaikovsky	Symph. #3, mvt.3, m. 7-28, 80-105 Symph. #4, mvt. 2, Opening
English Horn	Dvorak	New World Symph. mvt. 2, Solo (must audition on oboe)
Clarinet	Beethoven Mendelssohn Schubert	Symph. #6, mvt. 2, D to E, Symph. #4, mvt. 2, A to B, in A Symph. #7, mvt 3. in C, m.65-83
Bassoon	Mozart Tchaikovsky	Overture to Figaro, m139-145, 156-164 Or 156-171 Symph. #4, mvt. 2, Solo and ending
Horn	Shostakovich Tchaikovsky	Symph. #5, mvt.1, 36 to 4 m. after 38 Symph. #5, mvt. 2, m. 8-28
Trumpet	Mussorgsky Stravinsky	Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade, opening, in D Petrouchka, Solo, 69 to 70
Trombone	Berlioz Wagner	Damnation of Faust, Hungarian March m. 89-114 Valkyrie
Tuba	Wagner	Valkyrie
Percussion	Beethoven Shostakovich	Symph. #5, (Timpani) mvt. 1, 346-381 Symph. #7 (snare part) mvt. 1, 19-23
Harp	Berlioz	Symphonie Fantastique, mvt 2, 2m. before 21 to 22, 12m. before 23 to 23
Please feel free to contact Andy Radford if you have questions concerning these excerpts.
Concert Master and Principal Cello excerpts available from Music Director