Juries & Special Exams

Jury Examinations

At the end of each semester of applied study students are required to perform a Jury Examination before the faculty of the particular applied area. Juries are normally scheduled during final exams week. Please speak with your applied teacher(s) in order to prepare for juries.

Following the Jury Examination, the student and applied teacher will schedule a time for the jury comments to be read and discussed. The specific source of any jury comments will not be revealed by the applied teacher to the student.

Well in advance of the examination the student should be preparing the jury form, which is available from the applied teacher or the department secretary. For vocal juries, the completed form, a copy of which should be made for each faculty member who will hear the jury, must be given to the student's applied instructor one week prior to jury. If that date falls during a break from classes, the form must be submitted prior to the break. For instrumental juries, the completed forms should be brought to the jury. The jury comment sheets will be placed in the student's permanent file after the faculty member and student discuss them.

• Jury Form (pdf)

Performance Concentration: Students who wish to enter the performance concentration must perform a jury for the full faculty at the end of the second semester of applied study. This is a special audition to determine the student's readiness to continue at the applied study level of 3 credits required by that concentration

Instruments

• All major and minor scales (and arpeggios on woodwinds and mallet percussion), over the standard range of the instrument, slurred or tongued, in eighth notes at quarter = 144.
• 3 repertory pieces, to be chosen in consultation with instructor, of a level of difficulty corresponding to or exceeding that of
  • a sonata by G.F. Handel (for flute or oboe)
  • Andante and Allegro by Andre Chailleux (for saxophone)
  • Fantasy-Piece, op. 73/1 by Robert Schumann (for clarinet)
  • Sonata for Bassoon by G.P. Telemann.
  • Concerto for Trumpet by F.J. Haydn
  • a concerto for horn by W.A. Mozart
  • Morceau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant (for trombone/euphonium)
  • Introduction and Dance by J.E. Barat (for tuba)
• Percussionists must perform on snare drum (Three Dances for Solo Snare Drum by Warren Benson), timpani (Introduction and Allegro by Saul Goodman), and
  mallets (Rain Dance)

Piano

• All major and harmonic minor scales, hands together, 4 octaves
• Bach Prelude and fugue
• Classical period sonata (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)
• Romantic period composition at least 5 minutes in length by Chopin, R. Schumann, Schubert, Liszt or Brahms
• An Impressionistic or twentieth-century work by Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Prokofiev.