Knox-‐Galesburg Symphony
Required Audition Excerpts
Violin Associate Concertmaster
Viola Cello
Violin Section
Brahms Symphony No. 4, Movement 1 1. m. 392 to the downbeat of m. 426 Mozart Symphony No. 39, Movement II 2. M. 1 to the end of m. 56
Mozart* Symphony No. 39, Movement IV* 3. m. 1 to M. 53
Prokofiev* Symphony No. 1 “Classical,” Movement I 4. beginning to 4 ms. after reh. E
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Movement III 5. Lo’stesso tempo (m. 99 to the end of m. 114)
Associate Concertmaster (in addition to Violin marked with *)
Brahms Symphony No. 1, Movement II (upper divisi) 6. pick-‐ups to m. 91 [reh. E] to the end of the movement
Mendelssohn Midsummer’s Night Dream, Scherzo 7. m. 17 to the downbeat of 7 ms. after reh. D
Rimsky-‐Korsakov Scheherazade, op. 35, Movement I 8. m. 14 to the downbeat of m. 18
R. Strauss Don Juan 9. beginning to the downbeat of 13 ms. after reh. C
Smetana Bartered Bride Overture (violin 2 part) 10. beginning to the end of m. 33
Viola Section
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture 11. pick-‐up to 2 ms. after reh. 1 to 1 ms. after reh. 4
Brahms Symphony No. 4, Movement II 12. ms. 64 to 87
Grieg Peer Gynt, Op. 23, Prelude 13. reh. B to the end of the excerpt Mozart Symphony No. 35, Movement I 14. ms. 41 to 66
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 15. reh. 158 to reh. 166
Cello Section
Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Movement II 16. pick-‐ups to m. 1 to ms. 10
Debussy La Mer, Movement I 17. 2 ms. before reh. 9 to 6 ms. after reh. 9
Mozart Symphony No. 35, Movement I 18. beginning to reh. B
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Movement I 19. reh. 32 to reh. 39
Sibelius Symphony No. 3, Movement I 20. reh. 3 to 1 ms. before reh. 4 Brahms Symphony No. 2, Movement II 21. m. 1 to 15
6. Brahms -‐ Symphony No. 1, Movement II (upper divisi) pick-‐ups to m. 91 [reh. E] to the end of the movement