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2008-2009 Symphony Audition Excerpts (click selection to open PDF document)
(Taken from: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.6, Mahler, Symphony No.1, Dvorak, Symphony No.9, Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.5, Debussy, Trois Nocturnes, and Debussy, Afternoon of a Faun.)

STRINGS
( Always play top voice!)
Violin -------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, from measure 55 to measure 106
 
Viola -------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, from measure 34 to measure 62

Cello ------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, from beginning to measure 48

Bass ------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, beginning at rehersal Letter [G] to 4
measures after rehersal letter [L]
 
WOODWINDS
(Always play top voice!)
 
Flute ------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, beginning to rehersal Letter [D]
 
Piccolo -----  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, beginning to rehersal Letter [D]

Oboe ------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, beginning to rehersal Letter [D]
 
Eng. Hn -----  Debussy, Trois Nocturnes - 3rd Movement, beginning 2 before rehersal number 3 to rehersal number 5

Clarinet in A  ------ Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, from beginning to measure 69
 
Clarinet in Eb -----  Mahler, Symphony No. 1, beginning to end of first page

Bassoons  -------  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 1st Movement, beginning to 4 measures after rehersal letter [D]

BRASS
(Always play top voice!) 
Horn ------ Mahler, Symphony No. 1, 1st Movement, 7 measures before rehersal number [25] to end of page

Trumpet ----  Mahler, Symphony No. 1, 1st Movement, beginning to rehersal number [6]

Trombone ----  Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, 1st Movement, from rehersal number [1] to [9]
 
Tuba -----  Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, last movement, rehersal letter [Y] to end

PERCUSSION
 
Cymbals (Pg1) (Pg2) ----- Debussy, Trois Nocturnes, 2nd Movement, rehersal number [13] to rehersal number [ 14]  (Note: requires both pages)
 
Timpani (Pg1)  (Pg2) ----  Dvorak, Symphony No. 9, beginning to Allegro Molto and 3rd movement beginning to rehersal number [1]  (Note: requires both pages)
 
HARP/PIANO
 
Harp -----  Debussy, Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun", beginning to end of 1st page