High School Band
Audition Excerpts

2024-25

NCKMEA will use the KMEA All-State Winds and Percussion Audition Excerpts.

Audition Procedure for Wind Players

1. A chromatic scale slurred up and tongued down. Quarter Note MM= 60. Play the rhythm, articulation, and range as written on the scale sheet. Memorization is not required.
2. One major scale, as written on the scale sheet, with up to 4 sharps or 4 flats. Quarter Note MM= 60. Play the rhythm, articulation, and range as written on the scale sheet. Memorization is not required. All scales will start on the notes indicated on the scale sheet for their instrument. Each scale is non-transposed (i.e., if a trumpet player is asked to perform a C scale, they will be expected to perform a C scale on their instrument, not a C concert scale.) The major scale for each instrument will be posted by the band chairpersons on the morning of live auditions.
3. Sections of the required etudes/solos listed below.
4. Sight reading

Audition Procedure for Percussion

1. Play Snare Excerpt
2. Play Tambourine Excerpt
3. Play Marimba Excerpt
4. Play Timpani Excerpt
5. Sight read on Timpani

Excerpt Errata
Any changes indicated as errata on the KMEA All-State Winds and Percussion Audition Excerpts page will be observed for NCKMEA district auditions.
[As of May 1, 2024, there was no errata listed.]

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Excerpts for District Auditions

Piccolo

• Divertimento for Band (Vincent Persichetti)
• Bolero (Maurice Ravel)
• 25 Romantic Etudes No. 16 (Ernesto Kohler)

Flute

• Symphony No. 4 (Johannes Brahms)
• Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• 25 Romantic Etudes No. 16 (Ernesto Kohler)

Oboe

• Second Suite (Gustav Holst)
• The Glory of the Yankee Navy (John Philip Sousa)
• Articulation Study No. 1 (A. M. R. Barret)

Bassoon

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Dukas)
• 50 Advanced Studies No. 5 (Julius Weissenborn)

Clarinet

• Second Suite (Gustav Holst)
• Hammersmith (Gustav Holst)
• 32 Etudes No. 6 (Cyrille Rose)

B♭ Bass Clarinet
E♭ and B♭ Contra Bass Clarinet

• The Water Goblin (Anton Dvorak)
• Molly on the Shore (Percy Grainger)
• Etude in Eb Major (Carl Baermann)

Alto Sax

• Suite Francais (Darius Milhaud)
• Sinfonietta (Ingolf Dahl)
• Selected Studies for Saxophone in G Minor (H. Voxman)

Tenor Sax

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• Second Suite (Gustav Holst)
• Selected Studies for Saxophone in G Minor (H. Voxman)

Baritone Sax

• Colonial Song (Percy Grainger)
• Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich)
• Selected Studies for Saxophone in G Minor (H. Voxman)

Trumpet

• Flourish for Wind Band (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Second Suite (Gustav Holst)
• Characteristic Study No. 9 (Jean-Baptiste Arban)

Horn

• Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger)
• Pageant (Vinvent Persichetti)
• 60 Selected Studies No. 21 (Georg Kopprasch)

Trombone

• Second Suite (Gustav Holst)
• Riften Wed (Julie Giroux)
• 40 Progressive Studies No. 4 (HW Tyrell)

Euphonium

• First Suite in Eb (Gustav Holst)
• Roman Carnival Overture (Hector Berlioz)
• Melodious Etude No. 4 (Joannes Rochut)

Tuba

• Symphony No. 3 (James Barnes)
• Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Etude No. 11 (Georg Kopprasch)

Percussion

• Snare - Etude No. 2 (Chris Exum)
• Tambourine - Carnival Overture (Antonin Dvorak) NO REPEAT
• Marimba - Etude in Eb Major (Emory Dease)
• Timpani - Rotation No. 2 (56A Excerpt) (John Wickersham)