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DSO Assistant Principal Bassoon Audition Repertoire

The document outlines the audition repertoire for the Assistant Principal Bassoon position at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as of September 2004. It includes a list of required solo and orchestral pieces by various composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky, detailing specific measures to be performed. Additionally, it mentions possible sight reading as part of the audition process.

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DSO Assistant Principal Bassoon Audition Repertoire

The document outlines the audition repertoire for the Assistant Principal Bassoon position at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as of September 2004. It includes a list of required solo and orchestral pieces by various composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky, detailing specific measures to be performed. Additionally, it mentions possible sight reading as part of the audition process.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Assistant Principal Bassoon Audition Repertoire


September 2004

I. SOLO REPERTOIRE
Mozart Concerto in B-flat, K. 191
First Movement Exposition, measures 35-97
Second Movement measures 7-47
Additional Solo of Choice

II. ORCHESTRAL REPERTOIRE


Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Bassoon 1
2nd Movement, pick up to measures 9-25, pick up measure 165-180
5th Movement, 59-74

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Bassoon 3


2nd Movement, pick up to measure 165-181

Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Bassoon 1


Beginning to measure14, 31 after E to 9 after F (measures 330-386)

Beethoven Symphony No. 4, Bassoon 1


1st Movement, measures 65-82
4th Movement, measures 15-25, 184-190, 300-302

Beethoven Violin Concerto , Bassoon 1


1st Movement, measures 18-28
2nd Movement, measures 20-30
3rd Movement, pick up to 13 measures after C to 26 before D (measures 134-158)

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Bassoon 1 and 3


4th Movement, 2 before #52 to 2 after #53
5th Movement, 8 after #63 to 19 after #65, 4 after #83 to #84

Brahms Violin Concerto, Bassoon 2


2nd Movement

Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture, Bassoon 1


Measures 101-123, 139-171, 214-236

- Continued on Reverse Side -


- Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Principal Bassoon Repertoire, Page 2 -

Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter,” Bassoon 1


1st Movement, 7 after A for 10 measures, 3 after D for 8 measures.
4th Movement, B for 21 bars, 40 after C for 19 measures, 9 before F to F

Ravel Alborada del Gracioso, Bassoon 1


#9 through downbeat of #12

Ravel Bolero, Bassoon 1


3 measures after #2 to downbeat of #3

Ravel Piano Concerto in G, Bassoon 1


1st Movement, #9 to #10, #25 for 6 measures
3rd Movement, 5 after #14 to #16, NOTE – please be prepared to play both
first and second parts together and the 1st part only

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Bassoon 1


2nd Movement, opening and cadenzas

Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, Bassoon 1


1st Movement, 9 after A for 7 bars, 7 before D to E, 1 after N to 6 before O
2nd Movement, N to 11 after O

Shostakovich Symphony No. 9, Bassoon 1


4th Movement to A in 5th Movement

Strauss, R. Don Quixote, Bassoon 3


Variation VIII

Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Bassoon 1


Opening Solos to 7 before #13

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Bassoon 1


1st Movement, E for 11 bars, measures 294-299
2nd Movement, 274 to end of movement

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Bassoon 1


3rd Movement, measures 18-72

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Bassoon 1


1st Movement, opening solos, 102-129

Verdi Requiem, Bassoon 1


Nr. 2, #29-#33 (measures 247-313)
Verdi Requiem, Bassoon 3
Nr. 7, 10 after #127 to downbeat of #128 (measures 409-416)

III. POSSIBLE SIGHT READING

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