Audition Materials for Repertory Training (T-Rep) should be emailed to Jessica Olson at byoexecutivedirector@gmail.com, or mailed to the Billings Youth Orchestra at PO Box 80842, Billings, MT 59108.

The following audition materials are the similar to 2011 Spring All-State Audition Requirements.


Violin

42 Studies for Violin by Kreutzer, International Edition (Galamian)

F & A Major scales (two octaves)
d & f# melodic minor scales (two octaves)

Kreutzer, Study #6 (martelé. first 7 lines, (21 m.), forte, quarter note = 56-60)

Identify and play a one-minute excerpt from your solo literature

 

Viola

Foundation Studies for the Viola by Wolhfarht. Compiled by Merle J. Isaac and Ralph C. Lewis, published by Carl Fischer, Inc.  Book II (From Opus 45, 74) Thirty Studies in Three Positions (02660).

B-flat & D Major scales (two octaves)
g & b melodic minor scales (two octaves)

Wolhfarht, Book II, #35, page 5, quarter note = 80

Identify and play a one-minute excerpt from your solo literature.

 

Cello

170 Foundation Studies for the Violoncello by Alwin Schroeder, published by Carl Fischer, Inc. Volume I (02469).

B-flat & D Major scales (two octaves)
g & b melodic minor scales (two octaves)

Schroeder, Vol. 1, #71, p. 80, (first four lines, (12 m.), eighth note =132)

Identify and play a one-minute excerpt from your solo literature.

 

Bass

Nuovo Metodo Per Contrabasso (New Method for Double Bass) by Isaia Bille, published by G. Ricordi, Milan, Italy.  Bille 263 = Part III, Practical Course III. E. R. 263

F & G Major scales (two octaves)
d & e melodic minor scales (two octaves)

Bille 263, #19, p. 15 (quarter note = 84)

Bille 2263, #8, p. 9 (quarter note = 60)

Identify and play a one-minute excerpt from your solo literature