Master of Music in Percussion Performance

Online Prescreening Submission due December 1, 2024 by 11:59 PM (EST)

Multiple uploaded files of your prescreening requirements are acceptable.

Required Prescreening Repertoire is by Video Submission:

Snare Drum:

• Long Roll: Play a continuous buzz roll beginning at pp and crescendo to ff over a period of 30 seconds
• Delecluse: Étude No. 1 from "12 Études for Snare Drum" (beg. - downbeat of m. 36)
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Mvt. III (Reh. D - E and after 5 after F for 4 measures)

Marimba:

• Play any 4 mallet movement from a Suite or Sonata by Bach for violin, cello, or lute (no repeats)

Timpani:

• Long Roll: play a continuous roll on the 29" drum tuned to an "A" over a period of 30 seconds. Begin at pp and crescendo to ff.
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Mvt. I (18 before S - End)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. 1 (2 before T - 3 before U)

Required graduate live audition repertoire:

Snare Drum:

• One concert snare drum solo (e.g. Delecluse)
• One rudimental snare drum solo (e.g. Tompkins, Rieppi)

Two Marimba Solos: (One should be four-mallets and the other should be two-mallets)

• One contemporary solo
• One movement from any Suite or Sonata by Bach (e.g. violin, cello, lute)

One Timpani Solo: (e.g. Carter, Hochrainer, Delecluse)

Orchestral Excerpts:

• Four snare drum
• Four timpani
• Four xylophone
• Two glockenspiel
• One cymbals
• One tambourine

Auditions will be held on January 25, 26, February 9, or 15, 2025.