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Florida Bandmasters Association

2009 ALL-STATE MIDDLE SCHOOL AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

(For the 7th and 8th grade All-State Band – auditioning in September of 2008 for the January 2009 FMEA Conference)

1. All-State Middle School Band membership rules and regulations:

a) The student must be in the seventh or eighth grade.

All-State Middle School Band Audition Requirements for Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion:

b) A chromatic scale covering the range for their instrument (as given in the All-State Middle School Audition Requirements.) The scale will be performed in even eighth notes at a minimum tempo of MM quarter note = 144. The scale will be tongued ascending and slurred descending where

applicable. Scale is to be memorized.

c) Seven major scales, (in 2 minutes or less) from memory, complete with arpeggios, at a minimum tempo of MM quarter note = 120. Scales are to be performed a minimum of 2 octaves where possible. Students who wish to play a 3rd octave may do so. All scales must be performed within the allotted time frame. Scales must be performed in complete octaves. The scale pattern is . The arpeggio pattern is . The scales are to be tongued ascending and slurred descending where applicable. The student will be asked to perform scales in their transposed form.

Scales will be performed in the following order, starting with the concert key of: G, C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, & Db.

d) A short sight-reading exercise(s) to demonstrate the student’s reading ability. The student will have thirty seconds to study the piece before playing it.

(Percussionists must audition on snare, xylophone, and timpani. Sight-reading will be required in all areas.)

2009 All-State Middle School Band Prepared Exercises

(7th and 8th grade)

All exercises are from the Rubank Advanced Method, Volume I, except Percussion

Piccolo; Chromatic: 2 octaves from Eb (use flute book)

Exercise page 27, #8; Meas. 1- 18; no repeats; top; eighth note = 126.

All Piccolo students MUST also audition on Flute. Their Flute audition will

determine membership in the band and the Piccolo double will be determined by the

Piccolo audition. The Piccolo audition will contain the chromatic scale and the

above exercise – no other scales and no sight-reading.

Horn in F; Chromatic: 2 octaves from F

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 41, #26; all; top; quarter=90.

Technical Exercise: pg. 59, #34; all; quarter-138.

Flute; Chromatic: 3 octaves from C

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 35; #15; top, measure 1-22; quarter note = 72.

Technical Exercise: pg. 53; #22; all; quarter note = 160.

Trombone, Euphonium BC; Chrom.: 2 octaves from F

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 35; #19; all, top line; eighth note = 96.

Technical Exercise: pg. 51; #7; all, no repeats, no DC; dotted quarter = 100.

Oboe; Chromatic: 2 octaves from C

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 34, #17, top, all, no repeat, quarter note=84.

Technical Exercise: p. 46, #6. All, no repeat – dotted quarter=112.

Euphonium TC; Chromatic: 2 octaves from G

(use trumpet book)

Lyrical Exercise: p. 48, #9. All, quarter=80.

Technical Exercise: p. 38, #22. Beginning to m.31 plus 1 note, quarter=120.

Bassoon; Chromatic: 2 octaves from F

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 21, #4; top, all, no repeats; dotted quarter = 60.

Technical Exercise: pg 37, #23; top, all, no repeats; half note = 104.

Tuba; Chromatic: 2 octaves from F

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 27; #3; meas.1 to 15 + one note; quarter note = 72.

Technical Exercise: pg. 49; #13; all; quarter note = 68.

Bb Clarinet; Chromatic: 3 octaves from E

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 32; #11; top, m. 1-15 + one note, no repeats; eighth=108.

Technical Exercise: pg. 52; #12; all; dotted quarter = 92.

Bass & Eb Contra Alto Clarinet; (use clarinet book)

Chromatic: 2 octaves from E

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 42, #19; bottom, beginning to measure 22; quarter=60.

Technical Exercise: page 57, #27; all; quarter note = 88.

Alto, Tenor, and Bari Saxophone;

Chromatic: 2 octaves from C

Lyrical Exercise: pg. 36, #20; meas. 1-15 + one note; quarter=88.

Technical Exercise: pg. 49, #16; all; eighth=172.

Trumpet; Chromatic: 2 octaves from G

Lyrical: P. 28, #13, top, beginning to measure 15 plus 1 note, quarter note= 84.

Technical: P.51, #18, all, half note= 80.

Percussion; Percussionists must audition and sight read in all three areas.

Xylophone; Chromatic: 2 octaves from Bb

Exercise: p. 26, play pick-up to measure 9 through downbeat of measure 44,

dotted quarter note = 70.

Masterworks for Mallets, trans. by Beth Gottlieb

Publisher: Row-Loff

Snare;

Exercise: p. 29, #17, play beginning to count 5 of measure 24

Intermediate Snare Drum Studies by Mitchell Peters

Publisher: Mitchell Peters

Timpani;

Etude 9: download from www.flmusiced.org/fba