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Information for New Music Majors In addition to the university requirements for general admission, each prospective student must meet entrance requirements for the Department of Music. These include a performance audition and a diagnostic examination in musicianship. These requirements assist the faculty in assessing the student’s musical background, level of proficiency, and individual strengths and weaknesses. Students who enter the Department of Music with deficiencies will be required to take remedial courses based on the results of these assessments and therefore, will be required to take more than the minimum number of hours indicated to complete degree requirements. All students must complete a performance audition before the music faculty. Auditions will be held immediately prior to the beginning of classes in the fall semester if you have not yet auditioned. It is also a good idea to meet your applied teacher during the registration period. APPLIED STUDY Applied music is an individual instruction on a student’s major instrument or in voice, usually one one-hour lesson per week. Applied lessons culminate in a required end-of-the semester jury examination for all students enrolled in these courses. Such instruction is critical to a student’s musical development. Read below to learn what materials you will need to begin taking private lessons at ASU. In addition, each woodwind and brass student will need to own a metronome and a tuner. Flute: Clarinet: Complete Method for Clarinet (Klose) Oboe: Method for Oboe (Barrett) and Scales and Arpeggios: The Complete Boosey and Hawkes Oboe Scale Book Bassoon: Bassoon Method (Weissenborn) Alto Saxophone: Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1 (Hite) and Scales and Arpeggios: The Complete Boosey and Hawkes Saxophone Scale Book Tenor Saxophone: Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1 (Hite) and Scales and Arpeggios: The Complete Boosey and Hawkes Saxophone Scale Book Trumpet: Complete Method for Trumpet (Arban) Additional trumpet studio information. French Horn: Additional horn studio information. Trombone/Euphonium: Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium (Arban) and Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Book1 (Rochut) Tuba: 43 Bel Canto Studies (Bordogni) and 60 Selected Studies (Kopprasch) Percussion - Each student must have: metronome; sticks and mallets appropriate for concert percussion (snare sticks, tympani mallets, yarn mallets for marimba); practice pad. Students need to spend the summer learning all of the major scales and all 40 international rudiments.
MUSIC THEORY Do you know the note names in treble and bass clefs, including notes using ledger lines? http://www.musictheory.net
AURAL SKILLS Can you sing a simple melody or scale?
MUSIC HISTORY Can you name the six historical periods of music in chronological order and name at least one composer from each era or name and describe the instruments of the orchestra? http://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp
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