Doctor of Musical Arts

Prescreening:

• One solo movement from the standard repertoire;
• Two contrasting etudes;
• A two octave E major scale (horn pitch), ascending and descending, played in sixteenth notes at a minimum of quarter note equals 90 beats per minute, tongued and forte;
• A three octave B harmonic minor scale (horn pitch), ascending and descending, played in sixteenth notes at a minimum of quarter note equals 90 beats per minute, slurred and piano.

Final Audition:

• Two contrasting solos from the standard repertoire (entire works). Examples include, but are not limited to:
  • Mozart Concerto No.4 and Gliere Concerto
  • Mozart Concerto No.2 and Strauss Concerto No.2
  • Haydn Concerto No.1 and Schumann Adagio and Allegro
• An orchestral excerpt from each of the following categories (total of 5):
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5, Mendelssohn Nocturne, Brahms Symphony No.2 or No.3
  • Beethoven Symphony No.7, Wagner Siegfried Call, Strauss Don Juan (final call in E)
  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 (low tutti), Strauss Don Quixote (variation 7 and 8), Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 (4th movement, 2nd horn)
  • Ravel Pavanne pour une enfante defunte or G Major Piano Concerto, Berlioz Queen Mab (Scherzo, 3rd Horn), Franck Symphony in D Minor
  • Strauss openings to Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben, or Der Rosenkavalier (through B major arpeggios)

Sight-reading and transposition are also required.