University of Melbourne Orchestral Ensembles 2018 Auditions: French Horn

Please prepare all excerpts (all Horn 1 in F).

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

• Recordings of some of these excerpts are available onine. Listen to theorchestras that you’ve heard of, first. Berlin, Chicago, New York, Vienna etc.Listen to the pieces in their entirety, with full scores. Scores are available in themusic library, or through web resources such as:

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

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

• Once you’ve got the tempo, notes, intervals, rhythms sorted, record yourselfplaying ONE phrase of an excerpt. Listen to the professional version, and thenlisten back to your version. Name something specific that is better about theprofessional recording. Learn to do that specific thing. Repeat process untilthey are the same.

• Once you have the excerpts to a solid level of performance, record three ofthem in a row. Take a break, then come back and listen. Write down severalspecific things you know you need to fix, then spend 10 minutes working fixONE 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 yourparents, 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 whatbasics you’ll work on tonight or tomorrow morning before your next mockaudition.

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ROUND ONE Please prepare the exposition of a 1st movement from any Mozart concerto AND the following excerpts: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Fig. 17 to Fig. 21 STRAUSS Four Last Songs Two bars before Fig. G (for four bars only) STRAUSS Don Juan Entry after letter N to Letter O MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition Mvt I, ‘Promenade’ solo after Fig 18. First 6 bars only DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 10 bars after Fig. 33 to Fig. 36 ROUND TWO Please prepare all the above excerpts (you may present the same concerto exposition or an alternative one) PLUS: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Fig. 39 to Fig. 42 Fig. 54 to Fig. 55 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 Opening to Bar 7 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 Opening to the second movement to bar 28

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ROUND ONE Please prepare the exposition of a 1st movement from any Mozart concerto AND the following excerpts: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Mvt I, Fig. 17 to Fig. 21

STRAUSS Four Last Songs Two bars before Fig. G (for four bars only)

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STRAUSS Don Juan Entry after Letter N to 4 bars before Letter O

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition Mvt I, ‘Promenade’ solo after Fig 18. First 6 bars only

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DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 10th bar after Fig. 33 to Fig. 36 (top line)

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ROUND TWO Please prepare all excerpts from Round One (you may present the same concerto exposition or an alternative one) PLUS: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Fig. 39 to two bars after Fig. 41

Fig. 54 to Fig. 55

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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 Opening to bar 7

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 Opening of the second movement to bar 28 (mm 8 to 28)

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