Jacobs School of Music
Jazz Studies Audition Information
Trumpet
BM and BSOF
- Jazz repertoire: Play the melody and
improvise on two tunes from memory: one tune selected from the list below,
and one additional tune that is not a blues, "rhythm
changes" tune, or ballad.
Required
audition repertoire (select one):
All
Things You
Are
Joy Spring
There Will Never Be Another
You Groovin'
High
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called
Love?
Confirmation
- Students should prepare major scales (and
their modes), whole tone, diminished and ascending melodic minor scales
(and their modes).
- Auditionees may be asked to sight-read chord
changes and typical jazz ensemble parts.
Trombone
BM and BSOF
- Undergraduate applicants to the Jazz
Trombone program perform their audition for the Jazz faculty.
- Jazz repertoire: Play the melody and
improvise on two tunes from memory: one tune selected from the list below,
and one additional tune that is not a blues, "rhythm
changes" tune, or ballad.
Required audition repertoire
(select one):
All
Things You
Are
Joy Spring
There Will Never Be Another
You Groovin'
High
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called
Love?
Confirmation
- Students should prepare major scales (and
their modes), whole tone, diminished and ascending melodic minor scales
(and their modes).
- Auditionees may be asked to sight-read chord
changes and typical jazz ensemble parts.
Saxophone
BM, BME, and BSOF
- Screening:
- Two etudes (one technical, one
lyrical by Ferling, Lacour, Mule or Voxman).
- One complete solo work from the
standard repertoire (such as a work by Creston, Desenclos, Dubois,
Glazunov, Heiden, Ibert, Maurice, Milhaud, Tomasi, etc.).
- Four full-range major scales and
corresponding triads of the applicant's choice, four full-range harmonic
minor scales and corresponding triads of the applicant's choice, and the
full-range chromatic scale.
- Live Audition (Note: Solo repertoire and
etudes should differ from screening round selections):
- Two etudes (one technical, one
lyrical by Ferling, Lacour, Mule or Voxman).
- One complete solo work from the
standard repertoire (such as a work by Creston, Desenclos, Dubois,
Glazunov, Heiden, Ibert, Maurice, Milhaud, Tomasi, etc.).
- Applicant should have all major
and harmonic minor scales and corresponding arpeggios prepared, as well
as the chromatic sca
BM in Jazz Studies, BSOF (Jazz Studies
Emphasis)
- Classical repertoire: Two
contrasting movements (lyrical and technical) from standard works (such as
Creston, Glazounov, Heiden, Ibert, Maurice, etc.). An etude may be
substituted for one of the movements.
- Jazz repertoire: Play the melody
and improvise on three tunes from memory: a blues, a tune selected from
the list below, and one additional tune that is not a
blues, "rhythm changes" tune, or ballad.
Required
audition repertoire (select one):
All
Things You Are
Joy Spring
Groovin'
High
Confirmation
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called Love?
There Will Never Be Another You
- Scales full range: major scales (and their
modes), whole tone, diminished, and ascending melodic minor scales (and
their modes). For the screening recording, include only the
following full-range scales on Bb, B, C, and C#: major, harmonic minor, diminished
(WH), and diminished-whole tone. Play C major and harmonic minor entirely
staccato: play the others slurred.
- Note: If invited to audition in person,
auditionees will play two audition events, one for the saxophone faculty
(all material--classical and jazz) and one for members of the Jazz Studies
faculty (jazz material only).
- Auditionees may be asked to sight-read chord
changes and typical jazz ensemble parts.
Piano
BM in Jazz Studies, BSOF (Jazz Studies Emphasis)
- From memory be prepared to play:
1) melody with chord changes, 2) comp chord changes, and 3) solo in the
right hand with chord changes in the left hand on two tunes: one tune
selected from the list below, and one additional tune that is not a
blues, "rhythm changes" tune, or ballad.
Required
audition repertoire (select one):
All
Things You
Are
Joy Spring
There Will Never Be Another You
Groovin' High
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called
Love?
Confirmation
- Students should prepare major
scales (and their modes), whole tone, diminished and ascending melodic
minor scales (and their modes).
- Auditionees may be asked to
sight-read chord changes and typical jazz ensemble parts.
- Pianists auditioning for the BM or
BSOF in Jazz Studies will also play classical repertoire in their
audition for the jazz faculty and should be prepared to perform the
following:
Three
contrasting classical pieces to be played from memory, including:
a) a Prelude & Fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier (either book 1 or Book 2)
b) a first movement of a classical sonata from Haydn,
Mozart or Beethoven (excluding Beethoven's Op.2/1, Op 49/1, and Op.
79)
c) a short work from the nineteenth or twentieth
century.
Guitar
BM in Jazz Studies, BSOF (Jazz Studies Emphasis)
Perform
from memory 1) the melody, 2) comp chord changes, 3) improvise on two tunes:
one tune selected from the list below, and one additional tune that
is not a blues, "rhythm changes" tune, or ballad.
Required
audition repertoire (select one):
All
Things You
Are
Joy Spring
There Will Never Be Another You
Groovin' High
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called
Love? Confirmation
- Perform one solo jazz guitar piece
(chord melody). This can be an original arrangement of a jazz standard or
a transcription.
- If invited to audition in person,
in addition to the above repertoire, guitarists should:
- Prepare major scales (and their
modes), whole tone, diminished, harmonic minor and ascending melodic
minor scales (and their respective modes). All of these scales should be
played in two positions on the fingerboard.
- Be prepared to demonstrate their
chord voicing knowledge and comp in various styles including:
four-to-the-bar (sometimes referred to as Freddie Green comping), bebop
comping and Latin styles such as Bossa Nova and Samba.
- Be prepared to sight-read single
note lines and chord progressions.
Bass
BM in Jazz Studies, BSOF (Jazz Studies Emphasis)
- Prepare two tunes from
memory, one selected from the list below and one additional
tune that is not a blues, "rhythm changes"
tune, or ballad. One each tune be prepared to 1) Play the melody, 2) walk
a bass line, and 3) improvise.
Required
audition repertoire (select one):
All
Things You
Are
Joy Spring
There Will Never Be Another You Groovin' High
Half
Nelson
On Green Dolphin Street
Stella by
Starlight
Have You Met Miss Jones?
What Is This Thing Called Love? Confirmation
- Prepare major scales (and their
modes), whole tone, diminished and ascending melodic minor scales (and
their modes).
- Auditionees may be asked to
sight-read chord changes and typical jazz ensemble parts.
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Updated
on 09/12/2018