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INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
Thank you for you interest in the percussion programme at the Canberra School of Music. The CSM Percussion Program focuses on the fundamentals of percussion performance including Orchestral Repertoire,Contemporary Repertoire (Percussion Ensemble), World Music's and Jazz.
All students must qualify by audition for acceptance to the Canberra School of Music. Auditions are normally scheduled in December; however, students may audition at any time throughout the year by appointment. All applicants should prepare solo recital material at an appropriate level or solo/etude on the following: snare drum, mallets, timpani, multi percussion or drum set.
The audition will also consist of sight-reading on snare drum and mallets. This audition is important for both scholarship and teaching stipend considerations. Below is a partial list of suggestions for audition material; although, HSC, TEE, AMEB and Trinity College Exam materials are all acceptable.
You should bring your own sticks, mallets, music, and arrange for an accompanist, if needed. Students may bring their own instruments or use any of the following CSM instruments.
- Marimba One - 5 octave marimba
- Adams 5 Octave Marimba
- Yamaha 4/13 Octave Marimba
- Premier 4 octave Marimba
- Yamaha 3 Octave Vibraphone
- Musser Pro Vibe Vibraphone
- Adams Philharmonic Light Timpani with Calf Skin (set of 5)
- Ludwig Symphonic Model Timpani (set of 4)
- Concert Toms, Snare Drums and all assorted incidental instruments.
- Premier Drum set
- Musser 3 1/2 octave Xylophone (3)
- Musser Glockenspiel (3)
- Wide variety of Gongs & Cymbals
Students wishing to use a play along should bring it in either CD or cassette format. Should you have further questions please contact me either by the above phone numbers or by e-mail.
SUGGESTED AUDITION REPERTOIRE- TERTIARY STUDENTS
- SNARE DRUM:
Rudiments: 40 PAS rudiments.
Solos: snare drum solo/etude demonstrating adequate proficiency.
Suggested etude repertoire: 12 Studies for Snare Drum by Jacques Delecluse, published by Alphonse Leduc.
Portraits in Rhythm, Cirone, Belwin Mills
150 Snare Drum Solos, Wilcoxon, Ludwig Publishing
Orchestral Excerpts (optional)
- TIMPANI:
Fundamentals: tuning, intervals, intonation, and tone production.
Solos: timpani solo (including tuning) demonstrating adequate proficiency
Suggested etude repertoire: Freise Lepak Timpani Method, 3 and 4 Drum Tuning exercises, Belwin Mills.
Goodman Timpani Method, Belwin Mills.
Peters Timpani Method, Alfred Publishing.
Orchestral Excerpts (optional)
- KEYBOARD PERCUSSION:
Scales and Arpeggios: two octave scales and arpeggios major and minor.
Suggested etude repertoire:
4-mallet work of sufficient length and difficulty, which demonstrates ability suitable for a year 12 music recital.
Two mallet work: Modem School for Marimba / Xylophone by Morris Goldenberg, published by Chappell.
Green, Ragtime Solos.
Orchestral Excerpts (optional)
- MULTI PERCUSSION:
Solo: A multiple percussion solo demonstrating adequate proficiency on a range of instruments.
Suggested repertoire: Feldstein, Advanced Multi Solos, Udow Multi Solos, Kraft, French Suite, Kraft Morris Dance, Gatano, Episode No. 1
- DRUM SET
Various styles and chart reading. Essential Styles for the Drummer, Steve Houghton
Weckl, Ultimate Play Alongs, Corniola, Bass and Drum set Play Alongs, AMEB Advanced CPM Solos
SUGGESTED REPERTOIRE FOR POSTGRADUATE
STUDENTS
Mallet Solos:
Abe: Cherry Blossoms,
Frogs, Michi; Kessner: Continuum; Badings: Toccata for Marimbaphone;
Basta: Concerto for Marimba; Creston: Concert for Marimba; Edwards,
Marimba Dances, Fissinger: Suite for Marimba; Houliff: Three Pieces;
Kelly: Toccata for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble; Sueyoshi, Yasuo:
Mirage for Marimba; Sifler: Marimba Suite; Miyoshi, Akira: Torse III
Conversations; Bach: Sonatas, Suites, and Partitas; Helble: Preludes
Movement for Harpsichord and Marimba Grand Fantasy; Kurka: Concerto for
Marimba; Maslanka: Variations on Lost love; Milhaud: Concerto; Miki,
Minaru: Time for Marimba; Penn: Preludes; Wesley -Smith: For Marimba and
Tape; Stout: Two Mexican Dances, Ten Etudes for Marimba; Thomas: Merlin;
Tanaka: Two Movements for Marimba.
Timpani Solos:
Hinger:
Virtuoso Timpanist; Williams: Variations; Jenni: Tymipanorum Musices;
Wuebold: Fantasy for Timpani/Piano/Band; Zonn: Zoe; Carter: Eight Pieces;
Cucinotta: Triangulation; Farberman: Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra;
Frid: Zeben Pauken en ein Kuierorkest; Houliff: 4 Pieces for Timpani;
Nowak: Concert Piece for Kettledrums and Strings; Parris: Concerto for 5
Kettledrums and Orchestra; Parchman: Timpani Concerto/Orchestra;Tharichen:
Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra; Raphling,: Timpani Concert.
Orchestral Excerpts: (Post Graduate students auditioning for the stipend with the Canberra Symphony should select from the following )
- SNARE DRUM:
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade, Ravel Bolero, Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, Rossini La Gazza Ladra, Prokofiev Lieutenant Kije, Prokofiev Symphony # 5, Schuman, W. Symphony # 3.
- TRIANGLE:
Dvorak Carnival Overture, Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade, Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
- CYMBALS:
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky Symphony #4, Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2
- KEYBOARD PERCUSSION:
Gershwin Porgy and Bess (x), Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice (g), Shostakovich The Golden Age Ballet (polka)/(x), Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon (x), Respighi The Pines of Rome (g), Mozart Magic Flute (g), Copland Appalacian Spring (x), Debussy La Mer (g), Gershwin An American in Paris/x, Ravel Mother Goose Suite (x), Wagner Siegfried (g)
- TIMPANI:
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber.
Symphonies by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.
- TAMBOURINE:
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Bizet Carmen, Dvorak Carnival Overture, Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade, Stravinsky Petrouchka -1947
Contact: Gary France
Canberra School of Music, Australian National University
GPO Box 804, Canberra Australia 2601
Ph: 02 6249 5753 Fax: 6248 0997
email Gary.France@anu.edu.au
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