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University of Melbourne Orchestral Ensembles

2018 Auditions: Tenor Trombone

ROUND ONE Please prepare all excerpts. The first round will ONLY include the first five excerpts below. Need help preparing excerpts? Start now, by:

Listening to the pieces in their entirety, with full scores Scores are available in the music library, or through web resources such as:

http://imslp.org/ http://archives.nyphil.org/

Visiting http://www.tromboneexcerpts.org/ Recordings of some of these excerpts are available onine. Listen to the orchestras that you’ve heard of, first. Berlin, Chicago, New York, Vienna etc.

Do the dirty work of sorting out tempos, all of the notes, intervals and rhythms first. Do all of this AWAY from your instrument.

Once you’ve got the tempo, notes, intervals, rhythms sorted, record yourself playing ONE phrase of an excerpt. Listen to the professional version, and then listen back to your version. Name something specific that is better about the professional recording. Learn to do that specific thing. Repeat process until they are the same.

Once you have the excerpts to a solid level of performance, record three of them in a row. Take a break, then come back and listen. Write down several specific things you know you need to fix, then spend 10 minutes working fix ONE of those specific things.

Take several excerpts (random order) and perform as a pretend audition. Always record these mock auditions. Sometimes play them in front of your parents, or sibling, or even your dog. No comments needed. Just an audience.

Repeat every day (after a nice warm-up). Use the recording to decide what basics you’ll work on tonight or tomorrow morning before your next mock audition.

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ROUND ONE MOZART Requiem Trombone 2 (Tenor) Tuba Mirum Measure 1 – 18

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Trombone 2 Mvt I, 4th measure of Rehearsal 29 to 4th measure of Rehearsal 35 (alto clef)

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony #4 Trombone 1 Mvt I, Rehearsal P until 10 measures after Q

COPLAND Appalachian Spring, Trombone 1 Rehearsal 59 to Rehearsal 61

BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Trombone 1 Measure 498 through measure 523

ROUND TWO Please note: Excerpts from Round One may be asked in Round Two audition

F. DAVID Concerto for TromboneMvt 1. (No cadenza)

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Trombone 1 (two excerpts) EXCERPT 1 Mvt IV, Rehearsal 97 to 98 (note alto clef) EXCERPT 2 5th measure after Rehearsal 109, to one measure after Rehearsal 112

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 Trombone 1 Mvt I, Rehearsal P until 10 measures after Rehearsal Q

COPLAND Appalachian Spring Trombone 1 5th measure after Rehearsal 48 until 2 measures before Rehearsal 50

TCHAIKOVSKY Overture to Romeo and Juliet Trombone 2 Rehearsal “S" to 9 measures before Rehearsal “U”

STRAUSS Don Juan Trombone 2 1 measure before Rehearsal “P” to 8th measure after “P”

ELGAR Wild Bears (Mvt.6) from Wand of Youth Suite No. 2 Trombone 1 Rehearsal 66 to end of piece (top line)

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MOZART Requiem Trombone 2 (Tenor) Tuba Mirum Measure 1 – 18

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Trombone 2 Mvt I, 4th Measure of Rehearsal 29 to 4th Measure of Rehearsal 35 (please note alto clef)

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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony #4 Trombone 1

Mvt I, Rehearsal P until 10 measures after Q

COPLAND Appalachian Spring Trombone 1

Rehearsal 59 to Rehearsal 61

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BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Trombone 1 Measure 498 through measure 523

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ROUND TWO Please note: Excerpts from Round One may be asked in Round Two audition

F. DAVID Concerto for Trombone

Mvt I, (No cadenza)

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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Trombone 1 (two excerpts) EXCERPT 1

Mvt IV, Rehearsal 97 to 98 (note alto clef)

EXCERPT 2

5th measure after Rehearsal 109, to one measure after Rehearsal 112

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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 Trombone 1

Mvt 1. Rehearsal P until 10 measures after Rehearsal Q

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COPLAND Appalachian Spring Trombone 1

5th measure after Rehearsal 48 until 2 measures before Rehearsal 50

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TCHAIKOVSKY Overture to Romeo and Juliet Trombone 2

Rehearsal “S" to 9 measures before Rehearsal “U”

STRAUSS Don Juan Trombone 2

1 measure before Rehearsal “P” to 8th measure after “P”

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ELGAR Wild Bears (Mvt.6) from Wand of Youth Suite No. 2 Trombone 1

Rehearsal 66 to end of piece (top line)