Admission into the performance major requires an advanced development of embouchure, articulation, range, tone, and flexibility than is required for Music Education, and Composition programs. The entrance audition must display a level of development that will allow students to start with the listed repertoire or comparable literature. Live and taped auditions are accepted; however, a slightly longer program of music is suggested for taped auditions.

Euphonium

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves
• Sight-reading
• Etudes. Suggested etudes can be found in Voxman's Selected studies , Bordogni and Rochut's Melodious Studies, Vol. 1, and Arban's Characteristic Studies
• Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Curnow's Rhapsody for Euphonium, Arban's Carnival of Venice and Variations on a Tyrolean Song, DeLuca's Beautiful Colorado or Clinard's Sonata for Unaccompanied Euphonium.

Horn

A program of two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty. Sight reading and major scales in two octaves may be included in the audition.

• Beethoven: Sonata
• Glazunov: Reveries
• Heiden: Sonata
• Mozart: Concertos 1-4; Concert Rondo
• Saint-Saëns: Concertpiece; Romance, Op. 36
• Scriabin: Romance
• F. Strauss: Concerto, Op. 8; Nocturno, Op. 7
• R. Strauss: Concerto No. 1

Trombone

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves
• Sight-reading
• Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Blazhevich Concert Piece No. 5, Galliard Sonatas No. 1-3, Guilmant Morceau Symphonique, Marcello Sonata in F Major, Ropartz Andante et Allegro, Barat Andante et Allegro, Rousseau Piece Concertante, Morel Piece in F-Minor, Lebedev Concerto in One Movement, McCarthy Sonata for Bass Trombone or Hindemith Drei leichte Stucke

Bass Trombone

• Any etude from methods by Alan Ostrander, Kopprasch, Tyrrell, Blazhevich or Grigoriev and one from Bordogni's 43 Bel Canto Studies.
• Perform two contrasting mvts from the following works: Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite, Lebedev Concerto, Lieb Concertino, McCarty Sonata or one of the bass trombone solos of Eric Ewazen.

Trumpet

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves
• Sight-reading
• Perform two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes

Tuba

• Scales. Major scales in two octaves
• Sight-reading
• Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Grigoriev Studies for Tuba , Bordogni Legato Etudes Vol. 1 , Blazhevich 70 Studies for Tuba , Haddad Suite for Tuba , Hindemith Sonata for Bass Tuba , Vaughn Williams Concerto for Bass Tuba (movement 1), Holmes Lento , Wilder Suite No. 1 for Tuba , Marcello Sonata in F-Major or Marcello Sonata in A-Minor