Providing useful reference and audition material for college-bound string players, the Protocol series was created by college/university music educators and include the most frequently requested audition requirements from many universities. Not only does it help build a players repertoire, but it also exposes students to the expectations of the audition process, creating a comfort level that allows for the best audition possible. Students will go into their auditions completely prepared with help from this series.

Foreword by Doris Gazda

Preface

About Doris Gazda

About Larry Clark and Daniel Schmidt

How to Use This Book

How to Take an Audition

Ear-Training and Music Theory Placement Exams

Considerations for Choosing an Institution

Repertoire Included on Most Lists of Required Audition Material

Major Scales and Arpeggios

Chromatic Scale

Minor Scales and Arpeggios

Symphony No. 92 in G Major (“Oxford”), Hob. I:92 (Movements 1, 3 and 4) Franz Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 35 in D Major (“Haffner”), K. 385 (Movements 1, 2, 3 and 4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Overture to the Opera Der Freischutz Carl Maria von Weber

Finlandia, Op. 26 Jean Sibelius

Etude No. 53 from 53 Melodious Etudes Marco Bordogni

Etude No. 17 from 42 Etudes Rodolphe Kreutzer

Suite No. 1 in G Major for Cello, BWV 1007 ( Corrente and Minuetto I) (Transcribed for Viola) Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite No. 3 in C Major for Cello, BWV 1009 ( Bourree I and II) (Transcribed for Viola) Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9 (Movements 1 and 2) Georg Philipp Telemann