National Youth Orchestra of the United States
of America
Audition Excerpts
Violin
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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (second movement:
E–F, top line only)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 (first movement:
beginning–51)
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (first movement:
Allegro–C, second movement: 1–8 and 30–38)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition (“Limoges-Le Marché”)
Viola
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (second movement:
1–10 and 98–106)
Brahms: Variations of a Theme by Joseph Haydn
(Variation V: beginning–H, Variation VII: 1–10)
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 (fourth movement:
134–181)
Cello
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (second movement:
1–10, 49–59, and 98–106)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (third movement:
D–E, top line only)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Scherzo: C–D and N–O)
Bass
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (third movement:
Trio, no repeat)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (first movement: 4
before E–2 after second ending, no repeat)
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (first movement:
40–72)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition (“Samuel Goldenburg and
Schmuyle”)
Flute
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Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 (fourth
movement: D–E, with repeats)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Scherzo: 2 before P–end)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite
No. 2 (176–2 after 179)
OPTIONAL PICCOLO Rossini:Semiramide (5 after G–2 after H)
Oboe
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (second
movement: 25–44)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (second movement: 1
before B–5 after B)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition (“Tuileries”)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (second movement:
1–21)
OPTIONAL ENGLISH HORNRossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell
(Andante–9 after G)
Clarinet
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (third movement:
Trio, no repeat)
Kodály: Dances of Galanta
(31–65)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Scherzo: 1–48, 95–115)
OPTIONAL E-FLAT CLARINET Berlioz:Symphonie fantastique (“Hexensabbat”:
63–6 after 64)
OPTIONAL BASS CLARINET Grofé:The Grand Canyon Suite (“On the trail”: 8
before 13–Vivo)
Bassoon
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Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di
Figaro (139–171)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
(second movement: 5–A)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (second movement:
274–end)
OPTIONAL CONTRABASSOON Beethoven:
Symphony No. 5 (fourth movement: beginning–A)
Horn
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, second horn (third
movement: Trio, beginning–205)
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West
Side Story (286–293)
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 (third movement:
F–12 after F)
Wagner: Siegfried (short call)
Trumpet
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (beginning–5
after 1)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition (“Promenade,” top line only)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
(“Ballerina’s Dance”)
Respighi: Pini di Roma (second
movement: offstage solo)
Trombone
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Mozart: Requiem (“Tuba mirum”:
beginning–A)
Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell
(C–9 after D)
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Bass Trombone
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung (No. 26:
beginning–C)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (fourth movement:
beginning–13 after A)
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Scene IV:
“Entrance of the Gods to Valhalla”)
Tuba
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition (“Bydlo”)
Respighi: Fontane di Roma
(11–14)
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg
Harp
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
(“Un bal”: beginning–23)
Britten: The Young Person’s Guide
to the Orchestra (Variation I and Fugue)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
(“Waltz of the Flowers”: Cadenza)
Orchestral Keyboard
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Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West
Side Story (“Mambo”)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
(7–10)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (“Danse
Russe”: 64–73)
Timpani and Percussion
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Applicants are required to play one solo on either marimba or
xylophone (accompaniment optional), and all excerpts.
Snare Drum
Jacques Delécluse: Etude No. 1, from
12 Etudes for Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
(fourth movement: P–R)
Xylophone
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
(beginning–5 after 2)
Vibraphone
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West
Side Story (“Cool”)
Timpani
Richard Hochrainer: Etude No. 47
OR 49 from Etudes for Timpani Vol. 1
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses
(second movement: S–T and 2 before Z–end)
Tambourine
Dvorák: Carnival Overture
(beginning–C)