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Reno Philharmonic Association 925 Riverside Dr. #3, Reno, NV 89503 p 775.323.6393 | f 775. 323.6711 | [email protected] | RenoPhil.com Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO) / Youth Concert Orchestra (YCO) Audition Excerpt Packet CLARINET 1. Scale Tempo: YCO = 96 YSO =120 Chromatic 2 or 3 octave scale in triplets. Tongue up, slur down starting from your lowest good note • 2 octave concert Bb scale and arpeggio 2. Solo Play a 1-minute excerpt of a solo of your choice. Please stop when asked by the judges. 3. Excerpts YCO & YSO: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 mvt. 1 YCO & YSO: Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, mvt. 3 YSO Only: Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, mvt. 2 General Preparation and Audition Tips Arrive 30 minutes prior to your audition time to warm up. Allow time for parking and finding the location. Make sure your instrument is in tune. Ask a parent volunteer at the audition if you need help. You will be escorted from the warm up room to your audition at the designated timeslot. Auditions are blind. You will not be able to see or hear the judges, and you should not speak to them. Enter the room without saying anything and play straight through in this order 1. Scales and arpeggio 2. Solo 3. Excerpts 4. Collect your music and leave the room without speaking Practice slowly and carefully. Slow and accurate with beautiful tone will score higher than fast and sloppy. Study key signatures, rhythms, articulations and accidentals carefully. Work on your audition materials with your private or school music teacher. Listen to recordings of the works that you are playing on our audition. Contact Virginia Bowman at 775-323-6393 ext. 106 or [email protected] with any further questions.

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Page 1: Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO) / Youth Concert Orchestra ...Audition Excerpt Packet CLARINET 1. Scale Tempo: YCO = 96 YSO =120 • Chromatic 2 or 3 octave scale in triplets. Tongue

Reno Philharmonic Association 925 Riverside Dr. #3, Reno, NV 89503 p 775.323.6393 | f 775. 323.6711 | [email protected] | RenoPhil.com

Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO) / Youth Concert Orchestra (YCO)

Audition Excerpt Packet CLARINET

1. Scale Tempo: YCO = 96 YSO =120 • Chromatic 2 or 3 octave scale in triplets. Tongue up, slur down starting from your lowest good note • 2 octave concert Bb scale and arpeggio

2. Solo

Play a 1-minute excerpt of a solo of your choice. Please stop when asked by the judges. 3. Excerpts YCO & YSO: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 mvt. 1 YCO & YSO: Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, mvt. 3 YSO Only: Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, mvt. 2 General Preparation and Audition Tips

• Arrive 30 minutes prior to your audition time to warm up. Allow time for parking and finding the location. • Make sure your instrument is in tune. Ask a parent volunteer at the audition if you need help. • You will be escorted from the warm up room to your audition at the designated timeslot. • Auditions are blind. You will not be able to see or hear the judges, and you should not speak to them. • Enter the room without saying anything and play straight through in this order

1. Scales and arpeggio 2. Solo 3. Excerpts 4. Collect your music and leave the room without speaking

• Practice slowly and carefully. Slow and accurate with beautiful tone will score higher than fast and sloppy.

• Study key signatures, rhythms, articulations and accidentals carefully. • Work on your audition materials with your private or school music teacher. • Listen to recordings of the works that you are playing on our audition. • Contact Virginia Bowman at 775-323-6393 ext. 106 or [email protected] with any further

questions.

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Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 woodwindexcerpts.com

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5

Excerpt 1 - Movement I: mm. 1-37 Clarinet 1 in A

Excerpt 2 - Movement III: mm. 98-118 Clarinet 1 in A

SCORE

SCORE

Note: If you do not have access to an A Clarinet, you may perform thisexcerpt as written on B-flat clarinet. You do not have to transpose the excerpt.
YCO & YSO
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Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade woodwindexcerpts.com

Excerpt 2 - Movement III: 5 measures before [A] to [A] Clarinet 1 in B-flat

Excerpt 3 - Movement III: 1 measure after [D] to [E] Clarinet 1 in B-flat

Excerpt 4 - Movement III: Pickups to [G] to [H] Clarinet 1 in B-flat

SCORE

SCORE

SCORE

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
YCO & YSO
Page 4: Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO) / Youth Concert Orchestra ...Audition Excerpt Packet CLARINET 1. Scale Tempo: YCO = 96 YSO =120 • Chromatic 2 or 3 octave scale in triplets. Tongue

Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 woodwindexcerpts.com

Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3

Excerpt 1 - Movement II: Pickup to mm. 9-67 Clarinet 1 in B-flat

Excerpt 2 - Movement II: mm. 84-122 Clarinet 1 in B-flat

SCORE

SCORE

YSO Only