Excerpt Survey

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:16 pm

Has anyone ever done a study of the most called for excerpts, on orchestral auditions? I am envisioning a list of all possible excerpts, and a number next to it, representing the total number of auditions that called for it.

Has this been done already, or am I crazy? (really, the two are not mutally exclusive...

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ThomasP · Post by **ThomasP** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:22 pm

There was an article written in the TUBA Journal in the 90s I believe. I don't know the exact volume, but someone surveyed all the excerpt lists from recent auditions and the percentage of how often a certain excerpt appeared. If you have a library with old issues of TUBA Journal, I would spend some time between say 85-00 to find the article. It's in there, I read it, just don't know when exactly, maybe someone can help.

KevinYoung · Post by **KevinYoung** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:29 pm

ThomasP wrote:There was an article written in the TUBA Journal in the 90s I believe. I don't know the exact volume, but someone surveyed all the excerpt lists from recent auditions and the percentage of how often a certain excerpt appeared. If you have a library with old issues of TUBA Journal, I would spend some time between say 85-00 to find the article. It's in there, I read it, just don't know when exactly, maybe someone can help.

I believe Ted Cox is the one wrote that article. You can find him in the Oklahoma City area. He's a great guy and a great player!!!

Good Luck,
Kevin

ThomasP · Post by **ThomasP** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:36 pm

I believe you're right, and I think he's had a job at a university somewhere recently. I remembered recognizing his name some where. Maybe you can help with the volume of the TUBA Journal?

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:45 pm

I just checked out the Tuba Source Book, and it is a great list, but I was looking for something that indicated the actual number of occurances of each excerpt in auditions, or even done in percentages.

Can anyone locate, scan & post the T.U.B.A. article? It might be of interest to many people!

In any case, the information could be updated, so.....If anyone knows the contents of actual audition lists, and would like to post them, I would be willing to work on it.

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:43 am

bloke wrote:1/ Practicing lists of excerpts sucks. It's about the driest-of-the-dry of any sort of practice material.

2/ The only folks who spend much time practicing excerpts are those hoping to be selected and hired by orchestra audition committees.

3/ No survey is going to get them there.

True, but if one wanted to keep the "top ten" on the "back burner", on the off chance that an opportunity might arise sometime in the future, it would be helpful to know which ones are in the top ten....

dwaskew · Post by **dwaskew** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:39 am

by no means complete, here is a list compiled as a "you ought to know these tunes" as a tuba player. Not a practice these excerpts list, a you ought to know these tunes list.....but if you know these excerpts, you're pretty well prepared....

and, they all were in some orchestra audition or another in the past 15-18 years

http://www.uncg.edu/~dwaskew/students.htm#Excerpts

your mileage may vary

D. AsKew

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:48 am

bloke wrote:1/ Practicing lists of excerpts sucks. It's about the driest-of-the-dry of any sort of practice material.

2/ The only folks who spend much time practicing excerpts are those hoping to be selected and hired by orchestra audition committees.

-or-

4/ people who's teachers have assigned them (in lieu of or in addition to etudes which thank GOD my teacher did, or

5/ People who have gigs and either are preparing, preparing in advance, or wishing...