Clarinet Audition Excerpts Ei

Youngstown State University
I)ana School of Music
X'alI2009
Clarinet Audition Excerpts
- Please observe tempi and dynarnic markings.
- Listening to multiple recordings will help you learn these excerpts and it is absolutely
crucial to your success. Listen to the entire work to understand the styte and be aware
wh9 are accompanying your solo or whom you are supporting.
- People without A clarinets can play all excerpts on B b clarinets.
Excerpt
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Carl Nielsen
Wind Quintet, Op. 43
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Excerpt 2
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4
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Excerpt 3
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
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Daniel Bonade, the famed solo clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski,
made the above sketch of the cadenza. I recommend studying his ideas, for thef are very
effective. I{owever, no two clarinetists play this cadenza the same way; pcrhaps }'our
interpretation will be somewhere between these two. Below are some tricky passagcs.
The Vivace is in one, as is the following Allegro Molto .
Note: The Bonade ve(sion will help you unde$tand the pacing of these phrases
You will only have to play the cadenza once for the audition.
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Excerpt 4
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
Scheherazade (I through downbeat of K)
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