suny fredonia ensemble audition music (clarinet) spring 2017
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SUNY Fredonia
Ensemble Audition Music (Clarinet) Spring 2017
Selections from:
Milhaud – La création du monde, op. 81 Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F, mvt. 2 (Andante) Ticheli - Postcard Ibert – Trois Pièce Brèves, mvt. 3 (Assez lent. Allegro scherzando) Halvorsen – Entry March of the Boyars Shostakovich – Symphony No. 9, mvt. 3 (Presto)
Bass Clarinet (optional)
Mozart – Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 mvt. 2 (Andante ma adagio) Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Suggestions: Target tempi are provided for each excerpt, but they are only targets. Do not attempt to play these excerpts at a speed that your fingers/tongue/brain are not prepared to play at!
Some of these excerpts are not explicit about phrasing and dynamics. The lack of expression markings does not mean that you should play without expression.
Remember the three most important things about ensemble auditions:
1) Rhythm 2) Rhythm 3) Rhythm
But don’t forget to consider additional aspects of your playing: things like tone, technique, articulation, phrasing, etc.
The bass clarinet excerpts are provided for those who are interested in demonstrating their abilities for consideration in ensemble placement. Playing the excerpts does not guarantee a bass clarinet placement. Likewise, not playing the excerpts does not mean that you won’t play bass clarinet.
(Bass clarinet students – if you’re not playing soprano clarinet, prepare ALL the excerpts on bass.)
Milhaud – La création du monde, op. 81 Tempo is as marked – HALF (not quarter) note = 108. Recording via Naxos: 0094634580953 (Track 1, 10:51). This is music from the same time as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and the jazz rhythms are quite purposeful.
Please consider the style and inflection appropriate of this type of music. As with most orchestral solos, take the piano with a grain of salt, and make beautiful tone and phrasing your
primary goal.
Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F, mvt. 2 (Andante) Target tempo is quarter note = 76ish. Consider how to best articulate under the slurs, and how closely the articulation in m. 3 should match (or not?)
the articulation in m. 11. Reference many recordings. This excerpt is at the very beginning of the movement. We’ll be listening for phrasing, intonation and of course rhythm.
Ticheli – Postcard Target tempo is as marked, but don’t play faster than you’re able to. The style is light, fleet, and elegant. Short
eighth notes, accents that pop, etc. When you feel great about this, enjoy the fact that it’s a palindrome. This excerpt is an octave transposition of the clarinet solo that starts the piece. Recording via Naxos: 2744-MCD (Track 7, right at the beginning)
Ibert – Trois Pièce Brèves, mvt. 3 Target tempo is quarter note = 108-120. Take the initial piano indication with a big grain of salt. This should be joyous and spirited. There are easy solutions for the trills. Recording via Naxos: BIS-CD-536 (Track 3, 1:44)
Halvorsen – Entry March of the Boyars Target tempo is as marked: quarter note = 100. (This is not a fast march…) Plan to stop just before the pickup to rehearsal B. If you think we’re interested in articulation, you’re right! But also, consider style and phrasing. Recording via Naxos: search 75442262152 (Track 8, right at the beginning).
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Entry March of the Boyars
Johan Halvorsen
Transcribed and edited by Marc Oliver
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1st Bb Clarinet
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 9, mvt. 3 (Presto) Target tempo is dotted quarter = 108-120. CHECK THE KEY SIGNATURE! Recording via Naxos: BIS-SACD-1563 (Track 3, right at the beginning, but it’s played on A clarinet…)
Bass Clarinet Excerpts Mozart – Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 mvt. 2 (Andante ma adagio) Target tempo is quarter note = 44ish, or smarter yet, eighth note = 88ish Reference recordings for treatments of ornamental notes. My transcription of this work is from the Urtext edition,
meaning that you may hear (and choose to use) other articulations, ornaments, etc., but this is what Mozart wrote.
A lack of dynamic markings from the composer doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t play in a dynamic fashion. Make this beautiful!
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4 Concerto in Bb, K. 191
Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue Target tempo is as marked: HALF note = 76 Hmm… To tongue or slur the triplet after 15? Do your homework. Play forte, but remember that you’re not the soloist! Play a brief pause at the caesura, but don’t worry about the bar of rest that follows.