PERCUSSION AUDITIONS
For FOOSA 2024, percussion applicants should include in their audition videos the following:
1. A solo piece from the standard mallet repertoire (2-4 mallets), that best shows applicant’s technical and musical abilities: 2-4 minutes in length.
2. Excerpts (click here for sheet music):
1. Snare Drum:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Mov. 3, [D] to [E]; 5th measure after [F] to [G]
2. Glockenspiel:
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, [17] to 4th measure after [19]
3. Timpani:
Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, Movement 1, [T] to reh [U]
4. Cymbals:
Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, Movement 4, m. 272 to the end
5. Tambourine:
Dvorak: Carnival Overture, beginning to m. 40 only