UG Timpani and Percussion Audition Requirements

Please prepare all of the following for your audition recording:

Timpani

• Tchaikovsky – Symphony Nr.4  1^st. Movement 7^th. bar after F to L and 2 bars before T to 3 bars before U (available in “Modern Method for Timpani, Saul Goodman, Belwin Mills)
• Hindemith –  Sinfonische Metamorphosen Turandot Scherzo (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
• Frank Martin Concerto pour 7 Instruments à Vent,Timbales,Batterie et Orchestre à Cordes (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
• Beethoven Symhony Nr.1  3^rd. Movement & Beethoven Symphony Nr. 7  1^st Movement (available in ”Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions” ,Schott)

Snare Drum

• Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade,Movements 3 & 4 (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
• Prokofiev  Peter and the Wolf  (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Audition”, Schott)
• Rimsky-Korsakov  Capriccio Espagnol  (available in the Goldenberg Book)

Xylophone

• Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
• Gershwin Porgy & Bess (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
• Britten Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)

A piece of the applicant’s own choice on Marimba (optional).