LIVE ROUND SCHEDULE:
Mock Orchestra: 10am-12
Mock Band Tuba: 12-2
Quartet Competition: 2-5
Artist Euphonium: 1-3
Artist Tuba: 3-5
Young Artist Tuba: 12:30-2:30
Young Artist Euphonium: 2:30-4:30
All competition finals will take place on March 9th!
Competition fees:
Solo, Jazz, & Excerpt Competitions: $25
Quartet Competition: $40
Solo Artist Tuba:
Recorded Pre-lim: Capriccio for Tuba and Piano – Rodney Newton (Winwood Music)
Live Final: Concerto for Bass Tuba – Robert Jager (Hal Leonard)
Young Artist Tuba (20 years old or younger as of March 9, 2017):
Recorded Pre-lim: Introduction and Dance – J. Ed. Barat/Smith (Southern Music)
Live Final: Sonata for Tuba – Walter S. Hartley (Tenuto Publications)
Solo Artist Euphonium:
Recorded Pre-lim: Sonata for Euphonium and Piano – Eric Ewazen (Carl Fischer) – Mvts II & III
Live Final: Concierto Ibérico- Tim Jansa (Euphonium.com)- Mvts II & III
Young Artist Euphonium (20 years old or younger as of March 9, 2017):
Recorded Pre-lim: Adagio Cantabile (Lyrica No. 10) –
Giuseppe Tartini trans. Leonard Falcone (Cimarron Music Press)
Live Final: A Caged Bird- Barbara York (Cimarron Music Press)
Mock Band Tuba:
Recorded Pre-lim:
Blazhevich No. 28 (all, not including variation at the bottom of the page)
Them Basses (play the complete march with repeats)
Barnum (m. 99 to m. 115)
The Cowboys (m. 24 to m. 39 and m. 260 to the end, all bottom octave)
Live Final: (Prepare the complete excerpts below, all bottom octave)
Blazhevich No. 28
Them Basses
Barnum
The Cowboys
Basses on a Rampage
Florentiner March
Circus Polka
My Spirit be Joyful
Mock Band Euphonium
Recorded Pre-lim:
Blazhevich No. 28 (all, not including variation at the bottom of the page)
Rolling Thunder (play the complete march with repeats)
The Cowboys (m. 24 to m. 39 and m. 260 to the end)
Russlan and Ludmilla (opening to the end of Number 1)
Live Final: (Prepare the complete excerpts below)
Blazhevich No. 28
Rolling Thunder
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
The Cowboys
El Capitan
Pineapple Poll (No. 1, Opening Number)
Russlan and Ludmilla
Procession of the Nobles
Mock Orchestral Tuba
Recorded Round:
Wagner: Die Meistersinger: Overture; Letter J through L
Wagner: Ride of the Walkyries (B Major)
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5; First Movement; Number 3 to two measures before 6
Berlioz: Overture to King Lear; Third measure of number 21 to eight measures before 23
On-site Rounds to be chosen from:
Berlioz: Hungarian March from “The Damnation of Faust”
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet: Introduction
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Tuba 1)
Berlioz: Overture to “The Corsair”
Bruckner: Symphony Number 7
Bruckner: Symphony Number 8
Mahler: Symphony Number 1; Movement 3
Mahler: Symphony Number 5; Scherzo
Mahler: Symphony Number 6
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture (complete)
Prokofiev: Symphony Number 5
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Revueltas: Sensemaya
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (no mute)
Stravinksy: Petrouchka: Peasant and Bear (revised edition)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger: Overture (complete)
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (B major)
Wagner: Lohengrin: Introduction to Act III (complete)
Possible Sight Reading
Quartet:
Recorded Pre-lim: Ave Maria – Anton Bruckner, trans. Dave Sabourin (Cherry Classics Music)
Live Final: Mille regretz – Joshua William Mills (Apophatic Music Press)
-available from composer: www.joshuawilliammills.com
Jazz Tuba & Euphonium:
Recorded Pre-lim:
Tenor Madness, B-flat
There Will Never Be Another You, E-flat
Play head and two choruses with a live combo/iReal/Aebersold/etc.
Live Final: So What, D minor
Polkadots and Moonbeams, F (Head and one chorus)
Oleo, B-flat
Contemporary Music:
A work or series of works that demonstrates any number of "contemporary" trends in music-making, most especially those trends that are often ill represented at traditional tuba/euphonium conferences: music with electronics, non-jazz improvisatory music, and music that generally questions the Western Art Music status quo.