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Required Portfolio

• Requirements

  Your portfolio should consist of:

  1. Two-three works of original electronic music or of recordings for which the prospective student served as audio engineer.
  2. Technical notes for each track (e.g., a detailed description of the hardware and software used to create and/or capture the music).

  The portfolio should be submitted by the student's selected audition date.

Brass, Guitar, Strings, Woodwinds and Voice

• Audition Requirements

  We will assess your musical skills to ensure that you can pass the core music courses (music theory, ear training, class piano). These classes require Music Technology and Production students to develop strong musical skills in addition to expertise in technology.

  1. One or two pieces of your choice, in the styles of your choice.
  2. Sight reading
  3. Major Scales

Drum Set

• Audition Requirements

  Students are required to prepare the following:

  1. Assorted drum set styles:
     • Light rock
     • Funk
     • Boss nova
     • Samba
     • Swing (moderate tempo)
     • Swing (fast tempo)
     • Jazz waltz
      
  2. Trade 4’s in swing: Repeatedly play four bars of time followed by four bars of fill/solo
  3. Trade 4’s in rock: repeatedly play four bars of time followed by four bars of fill/solo
  4. One published snare drum solo: rudimental or symphonic. Recommended sources are:  
     • Intermediate or Advanced Snare Drum Studies by Mitchell Peters
     • 14 Modern Contest Solos by J. Pratt
     • Portraits in Rhythm by A. Cirone
     • The All-American Drummer/ 150 Rudimental Solos by Charley Wilcoxon (prepare two short selections or one long selection (entire page))
      
  5. Perform all major scales and arpeggios on piano, xylophone or any other instrument in one octave

  In addition to the above, students will be asked to do the following (required):

  1. Sight read a basic swing chart with recording (both provided by the committee)
  2. Sight read on snare drum
  3. Briefly demonstrate ability to match pitches by humming or singing pitches (one note at a time)

  Students may also augment their audition (optional) by:

  1. Performing a xylophone or marimba solo
  2. Playing all of the major scales and arpeggios in 2 octaves on marimba or xylophone

Piano

• Audition Requirements

  There are two tracks in piano. The audition option you choose makes a potential impact on how many piano-related courses you will take as part of the program. The audition requirements for both tracks require two repertoire pieces of contrasting style. Both should be based on printed sheet music (please bring a copy with you to the audition). At least one should be classical music.

  Audition Option A:

  1. Two contrasting solos (min. 1 classical) at a Level 2 or higher - i.e. Works by Gurlitt, Kabalevsky, etc, or comparable to Bartok's First Term at the Piano or Mikrokosmos, Book 2.
  2. Prepare scales in all major keys, 1 octave, hands together

  If admitted via Audition Option A, to meet the Applied Piano requirement you would take Class Piano 3 and 4 your first year, and two years of applied (private) piano in your second and third years.

  OR

  Audition Option B:

  1. Two classical solos in contrasting styles comparable (or more difficult) to Clementi's Op. 36 Sonatinas, the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, or the Burgmuller Arabesque.
  2. All scales (major and harmonic minor) 2 octaves, hands together.

  If admitted via Audition Option B, to meet the Applied Piano requirement you would take two years of private piano lessons.