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Woodwinds
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Admission Requirements
-Please see information on the School of Music Application Process. In addition:
-MM woodwind candidates are required to submit a preliminary
recording in MP3 format for evaluation (see Uploads for more info). Preliminary
recordings must be received by December 1 but applicants are urged to apply as early as possible. Applicants may be invited to campus
for a live audition and interview based on the preliminary recording and application
materials. Before extending the invitation to audition, ALL application materials
must be complete.
Auditions:
-For the live audition, MM woodwind candidates should prepare
to play a short recital consisting of works representing the major
historical periods. The program should consist of 40 minutes of music,
from which the audition committee will excerpt 20 minutes.
-Students should present a well balanced program consisting
of music suitable for a senior undergraduate performance recital.
Accompanist preferred, but not required. Applicants must include at
least one contemporary piece which has been composed in the last 30 years. Candidates must audition in person and
bring five copies of their recital program (not five copies of the
scores), a comprehensive repertoire list and their resume to the
audition. Flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons: three orchestral
excerpts of varying styles are required.
Saxophones: orchestral
excerpts not required. Demonstration of interpretative jazz and
improvisational skills, while not a requirement, is certainly welcome.
The audition committee will also conduct a short interview of each
candidate. Please contact the major
professor for more information.
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Doctoral Minor The purpose of the
doctoral minor is to add breadth and depth to the D.M.A or Ph.D degree.
To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate
department, a student's advisor, and the Director of Graduate Studies,
and must include courses at the 300-level or above. Typically, a minor
requires 12 credits of work.
Students have a variety of options, including completing an
internal minor within the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. conducting
student who minors in ethnomusicology or a Ph.D. in music theory who
minors in clarinet performance), completing a minor in a department
outside the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. in horn performance who
minors in Women's Studies or a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology who minors in
East Asian studies). Students may, in consultation with the Director of
Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together
courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area
of interest. For example, a D.M.A. student in voice devises a minor in
vocal health that includes courses in communicative disorders, or a
Ph.D. student in musicology devises a minor in Medieval History that
includes courses in art history, history, and languages.
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