Music major applicants should submit the required repertoire shown below for the desired degree program. All music major applicants will be automatically considered for scholarships.
We would like to encourage you to consider a work by composers from historically underrepresented groups.
All applicants
- A prepared solo on snare drum, timpani, and mallet percussion instrument (all three required)
You can choose either two- or four-mallet repertoire — you need not do both. - Suggested Audition Repertoire:
- These pieces are suggestions of the difficulty level you should consider. They are NOT required pieces.
- You can choose either two or four mallet repertoire – you do not have to do both.
- Concert snare solos are preferred over rudimental.
- Snare Drum
- Concert Etudes by Delecluse, Cirone, Peters, Firth
- Portraits in Rhythm, Cirone
- Douze Etudes, Delecluse
- Solo Snare Drummer, Firth
- Intermediate Snare Drum Studies, Peters
- Timpani
- Solos by Vic Firth, Beck, Goodman, Peters, Hochrainer
- Solo Timpanist, Firth
- Any solos by John Beck
- Etudes from Modern Method for Timpani, Goodman
- Etuden fur Timpani, Hochrainer
- Any solos by Mitchell Peters
- Mallets
- Two-mallet solos by Goldenberg, Peters, Hatch, Zivkovic
- Modern School for Xylophone, Goldenberg
- Fundamental Method for Mallets, Peters
- Funny Mallets, Zivkovic
- Any solos by Earl Hatch
- Four-mallet solos by Stout, Peters, Gomez, Abe
- Any solo by Gordon Stout
- Any solo by Mitchell Peters
- Rain Dance, Mbira Song, Alice Gomez
- Any solo by Keiko Abe