2022 Region Orchestras/2023 All State Orchestra Strings Recording Requirements:

2022 Region Orchestras/2023 All State Orchestra Strings Recording Requirements:

Each student (after announcing name and instrument) will next record all TECHNICAL Etudes listed below and next record the LYRICAL passages listed for their instrument. Finally, Orchestra strings must record the required scales listed for their instrument. See details below.

Violin

• Scales:   G Major 3-octave scale and arpeggio, Bb Major 2-octave scale and arpeggio.

• Etude:     Mazas Etudes Brilliantes, Op. 36, Book II No. 43 mm1-24 (double bar line)

• Excerpt:  Brahams, Academic Festival Overture, mm84 – 137 (cut time)

Viola (the viola excerpts are together in one PDF, scroll down for both)

• Scales:  C Major 3-octave scale and arpeggio, Eb Major 2-octave scale and arpeggio.

• Etude:     Bruni 25 studies #3 (no repeats)

• Excerpt:  Brahams, Symphony #4, MVT IV, mm 41-64

Cello

• Scales:  C Major 3-octave scale and arpeggio, Eb Major 2-octave scale and arpeggio.

• Etude:   Popper Op. 73, Etude #36 mm 1-45

• Excerpt:  Brahams, Symphony No 3, Movement #3 mm 1-39

Bass

• Scales:  G Major and Bb Major 2-octave scale and arpeggio.

• Etude: Bottesini, Method for Double Bass, Part 1. Etude No. 25

• Excerpt:  Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, Movement 2 mm 69-114

Harp (the harp excerpts are together in one PDF.  Scroll down to see both)

• Scales:  A Major 3-octave scale and arpeggio.

• Excerpt 1: Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade Op. 35, Movement 2, Letter Q to 13 before Letter R (Start bracket to End bracket)

• Excerpt 2: Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Movement 2. Un Bal Skip Long Rests