08/22/10
**** Annual Baylor All-State Etude and Excerpt Workshop ****

Great opportunity - call your friends and organize a carpool!



WHO: All AHSO students auditioning for Region, Area or State

WHAT: All-State Etudes and Excerpts Workshop 
                 With Baylor University String Faculty

WHERE: Baylor University School of Music, McCrary Music Building

WHEN: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Cost: $15.00 per student

Registration Form - Click HERE

For questions, please contact: Eka Gogichashvili

(254) 710-6216 or Eka_Gogichashvili@baylor.edu

08/22/10

2 Clinic Sessions, 8 Bassists (max) per session

 

Session One: Saturday Oct. 9, 12:00-2:00PM

                                                                           

Session Two: Saturday Oct. 9, 2:30-4:30PM

                                                                                 

If you have any questions regarding the clinic or region etudes, please contact Sabrina Behrens at (281)633-6300 or email me at studiobass35@comcast.net

 

See registration form HERE.

 

08/20/10

Dear Parents and Students,

The region cuts are posted. These cuts apply to Region Auditions ONLY. If you plan to do Area/State, you must continue to practice the entire etude. Cuts may and will be taken at different places for those auditions. Printable version HERE.

Region XIII High School Orchestra
 Audition Excerpts 2010-2011

VIOLIN:        

     Rode 5:                          All of page 2.

     Rode 19:                         2^nd line where double-stops begin to end.

VIOLA:

     Mazas 26:                      Line 10, 3^rd measure (key change) to end.

     Mazas  7:                       Play entire etude.

CELLO:

     Franchomme 9:             Measure 19 to the end.

     Duport 13:                     Measure 64 (2nd page begins on D#) to the end.

BASS:

     Storch-Hrabe 1:            Line 4 beginning on 2^nd note B to page 2 Line 5 to measure 3.

     Hrabe 24:                       Play entire etude.

PIANO:                          No Cuts, play both etudes in their entirety.

     Burgmuller:                   9. Matin Bell

     Bach:                                       French Suites 6. Play Bouree

HARP:                           No Cuts, play both etudes in their entirety.

     Watkins:                        Petite Suite, Mvt. 23 Fire Dance

     Naderman:                    Sept Sonates Progressives pour la Hapre, Op 92

                                              Sonata 5. Play Trio piu allegro elegante

  All-State Orchestra Etudes  
Violin:

Rode:  Twenty Four Caprices (Galamian), Intenational Music Co.

#19 (Arioso Only); (Galamian)
Tempo:  Eighth note = 82-96
           
#5 (Moderato), (Galamian)
Tempo:  Quarter note = 84-96

Viola:

Mazas:  Etudes Speciales, Op. 36, Book 1, Schirmer.

#7 (Andante)
Tempo:  Quarter note = 60-66

(6/16/2010)
Quarter note = 56-66.
All turns are regular turns NOT inverted turns.
m. 5 and 29 - beat 3 fingering should be a 3.
m. 40 - play in first position
m. 41 - fingering at end of bar is 4th position

#26 (Allegro non troppo)
Tempo:  Quarter note = 92-100

(6/16/2010)
Quarter note = 84-100
ms. 2, 17, 19, 30, 34, 88, and 92 - accent on beat 2, NOT decrescendo (just like in m. 6) (6/28/2010)
m. 4 - staccato on beat 3
m. 15 - 3rd beat (D nat) should be a 16th note.
ms. 40 and 48 should have the same bowing. (original bowing is like m. 48)
ms. 40 and 48 should have the same diminuendo. (Original is like m. 40, starting on 2nd 8th note.)
m. 51 - last 3 8th notes should have slur. (as in m. 43)
m. 74 - 1st beat, top note, C sharp NOT C natural
m. 77 - 5th note is a G. (some printings have a splotch there.)
m. 80 - 1st three notes should have dots.

Cello:

Franchomme:  12 Caprices for Cello Solo, Op. 7 (Klengel), International Music Co.

#9
Tempo:  Eighth note = 76-90

Duport:  21 Etudes for the Violoncello, Book 1, (Schulz) Schirmer.

#13 (Allegro)       
Tempo:  Half note = 84-96

(6/16/2010)
m. 69 - fingering of 2nd note (E) should be a 2 instead of 3.
m. 104 - last note should be F#, instead of A (same as m. 106).

Bass:

J. Hrabe:  86 Etudes for the String Bass, Book 1 (Simandl), Carl Fischer.#24 (Maestoso)
Tempo:  Quarter note = 90-94

(6/18/2010)
m. 46 - next-to-last note should be D-natural
m. 47 - next-to-last note should be F-natural

Storch-Hrabe:  57 Studies, Vol. II, International Music Co.

#1 (Andante-Maestoso)
Tempo:  Andante – quarter note = 72-76;  Maestoso – quarter note = 84-88

Harp:

David Watkins:  Petite Suite for Harp, United Music.

Mvt. 3 Fire Dance
Tempo:  Dotted half note = 70

F.J. Naderman:  Sept Sonates Progressives pour la Harpe, Op. 92 (Hasselmans) Salvi.

Sonata #5 play Trio piu allegro elegante & Tempo di minuetto
Tempo:  Trio piu allegro elegante – quarter note = 120-126;  Tempo di minuetto – quarter note = 96.

Piano:

J.S. Bach:  French Suite No. 6, Henle Publ.
Suggested Book: French Suites BWV 812-817, H. Henle Verlag,
HN 1071, Distibuted in the USA by Hal Leonard (05/19)

No. 6, Play the Bouree
Tempo:  Half note = 112

Burgmuller:  Eighteen Characteristic Studies (Kalmus) Alfred.

No. 9 Matin Bell - (Morning Bell) (05/06)
Tempo:  Quarter note = 84

  All-State Orchestra Etudes  

2010 Region-State Etudes will be selected from the following books:

Violin:
            Rode:  Twenty Four Caprices,

Viola:
            Mazas:  Etudes Speciales, Op. 36, Book 1, Schirmer.

Cello:
            Franchomme:  12 Caprices for Cello Solo, Op. 7, International Music Co.
            Duport:  21 Etudes for the Violoncello, Book 1, (Schulz) Schirmer.        

Bass:
            J. Hrabe:  86 Etudes for the String Bass, Book 1, (Simandl), Carl Fischer.
            Storch-Hrabe:  57 Strudies, Vol. II, International Music Co.

Harp:

  David Watkins:  Petite Suite for Harp United Music.
  F.J. Naderman:  Sept Sonates Progressives pour la Harpe, Op. 92,      (Hasselmans) Salvi.

Piano:
            J.S. Bach:  French Suite No. 6, Henle Publ.
            Burgmuller:  Eighteen Characteristic Studies, (Kalmus) Alfred.