Department of Music

Audition Information

All music scholarships are performance based. If you are interested in consideration for a music scholarship you must be accepted as a student at ISU by February 1, 2008 and you must audition on or before February 10, 2008.

Auditions for music major and minor admissions, transfer student admissions, and scholarships for Fall 2008 will take place on

• Monday, November 5, 2007
  • Music Career Day
• Monday, January 28, 2008
  • Music Audition Day
  •  (scholarship consideration and department admission)
    
• Friday, February 8, 2008
• Music Career Day
• (scholarship consideration and department admission)
• Saturday, February 9, 2008
• Music Audition Day
• (scholarship consideration and department admission)
• Monday, February 25, 2008
  • Music Audition Day
  • (for department admission)
    

Please phone the Department of Music at (812) 237-2771 to set up an audition day and time. If you wish to make other audition plans, please contact us. If you are interested in a music scholarship at Indiana State University you should plan to audition early. Auditions for scholarships may not be available after March 1, 2008.

An entering music major is expected to have developed music reading skills and to have achieved considerable performing skill on an instrument or in voice. These skills are demonstrated to the music faculty through an audition. Those students who wish to pursue a degree in musical performance are expected to display greater proficiency and aptitude than those who are entering other degree programs.

The audition determines:

1. admission to a music curriculum
2. the level of placement in applied music study
3. eligibility for a music scholarship.

Woodwind and Brass Instruments

1. A solo
2. Scales - the student will demonstrate range and styles of articulation through the performance of major scales
3. Sight reading

Piano

1. Click here for piano audition information (pdf file)

Strings

1. Two solos of contrasting styles
2. Major scales in three octaves
3. Sight reading

Percussion

1. Snare Drum
   1. A solo
   2. Rudiments (1-13)
2. Mallets (Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone)
   1. A solo
   2. Major scales
3. Demonstrate proficiency in one of the following:
   1. Timpani
   2. Multiple Percussion
   3. Drum Set
4. Sight reading
   1. Snare Drum
   2. Mallets

1. A classical solo performed from memory on the level of Group I
   (Indiana State Solo Contest List)
2. A brief examination in rhythmic and melodic sight reading as well as music theory (major and minor key signatures)