MoASTA

All State Orchestra
Audition Excerpts
Set 3

Violin

Scales:

C major – 3 octaves
a melodic minor – 3 octaves

Orchestral Excerpts:

Borodin – Polevetsian Dances, Dance No. 17, violin 1, measures 31 to 40
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1, 1st movement, violin 1, measures 13 to 45
– Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla, violin 1, measure 21 to 51

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Viola

Scales:

D major – 3 octaves
f melodic minor – 3 octaves

Orchestral Excerpts:

Berlioz – Roman Carnival Overture, measures 37 to 53
Mozart – Symphony No. 30 in g minor, K. 550, 1st movement, measures 105 to 122
Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68, 1st movement, measures 321 to 343

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Cello

Scales:

E flat major – 3 octaves
g melodic minor – 3 octaves

Orchestral Excerpts:

Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo, measures 296 to 323
Mendelssohn – Overture to the Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), measures 1 to 21
Brahms – Symphony No. 3, op. 90, measures 1 to 16

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Bass

Scales:

E major – 3 octaves
c# melodic minor – 2 octaves

Orchestral Excerpts:

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, sections labeled A, B and C
Moussorgsky – Pictures from an Exhibition VI, Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
Prokofiev – Lieutenant Kije Suite, Solo from Romance

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