High School All-County Requirements

2016 - 17 School Year

Students will be asked to perform:

1.  Chromatic Scale - All chromatic scales will be played according to the All-State requirements.

2.  Major Scales - according to the FBA All-State requirements. Twelve major scales, (3 minutes or less), complete with arpeggios, at a minimum tempo of MM quarter note = 120. Scales are to be performed a minimum of 2 octaves where possible. Students who wish to play a 3rd octave may do so. All scales must be performed within the allotted time frame. Scales must be performed in complete octaves. The scale pattern is . The scales are to be tongued ascending and slurred descending where applicable. The students will be asked to perform scales in their transposed form. Scales will be performed in the following order, starting with the concert key of: G, C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb/B, E, A, & D. Scales will be scored based on the quality of performance of the scale.

3.  Prepared Exercises - All Exercises from the Rubank Advanced Method, Volume II, except where indicated. (Percussionists must audition on snare, xylophone, and timpani.) Please note that all tempo indications are suggestions.

4.  Sight-reading - A short sightreading exercise(s) to demonstrate the student’s reading ability. The student will have thirty seconds to study the piece before playing it. Sight-reading will be required on mallets and snare only for percussion students.

Piccolo:
Chromatic: 21/2 octaves from Eb to Bb
Exercise: (flute book) pg. 51, #6; m. 1-32; quarter note=116 / Alto Saxophone:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from F
Exercise: pg. 57, #26; quarter note = 72
Flute:
Chromatic: 3 octaves from C
Exercise: pg. 38, #18; top line, m. 11 - 30, no repeats; quarter note =63 / Tenor and Bari Saxophone:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from F
Exercise: pg. 29, #9, top line, no repeats; quarter note = 66 (tenor sax)
Exercise: pg. 50, #10; m. 1-16; quarter note = 76 (baritone sax)
Oboe/English Horn:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from D
Exercise: pg. 20, #1; top line, m. 1-32 plus one note of D.C.; quarter note = 84 (oboe)
Exercise: p. 41, #20; beginning to m. 15 plus one note; quarter note = 76 (English horn) / French Horn:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from F
Exercise: pg. 21, #2; top line, beginning to m. 23 plus one note, no repeats; quarter note = 96
Bassoon:
Chromatic: 3 octaves from Bb
Exercise: pg. 61; Andante Sostenuto; no repeats; quarter note = 68 (from Weisenborn Method for Bassoon, New Enlarged Version Carl Fisher, Publisher) / Trumpet:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from C
Exercise: page 6, Coronation, m. 1 - 26; quarter note = 90 (from Concert Studies for Trumpet [for Phillip smith] with CD Curnow Music/Hal Leonard, Publisher)
Bb Clarinet:
Chromatic: 3 octaves from E
Exercise: pg. 71, #26, m. 1-16; eighth note = 76
Exercise: pg. 21, #1; top line; half note = 96
(NOTE: this is for Eb Clarinet only) / Trombone, Baritone BC and TC:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from Bb
Exercise: pg. 43, #31; m. 1-21 plus one note; dotted quarter note = 60
(from Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Edited by Johannes Rochut [Book 1] , Ed. by Alan Raph (Carl Fisher, Publisher)
Bass, Eb and Bb Contra Alto/Bass Clarinet:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from E
Exercise; (clarinet book) pg. 32, #10, bottom line, m. 3 - 12; dotted quarter note = 60 (bass clarinet)
Exercise: p. 29, #7, bottom line, m. 1 – 16; quarter note = 100 (all contra clarinets) / Tuba:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from Bb
Exercise: pg. 43, #26,; quarter note = 60
Percussion:
Xylophone:
Chromatic: 2 octaves from Bb
E xercise: pg. 88, Fantasia; m. 1-20; dotted quarter note = 66
Masterworks for Mallets by Beth Gottlieb Publisher: Roff-Off
Snare:
Exercise: pg. 25, Etude 23; m. 1-21, quarter note = 69
Portraits in Rhythm (CR 1966) by Anthony Cirone; Publisher: Belwin Mills
Timpani:
Exercise: Etude #23, p. 34, m. 1-20 plus one note; quarter note = 72
Pedal to the Kettle by Kirk J. Gay; Publisher: Tapspace Pub.
NOTE: Percussionists will sightread on mallets and snare only
SOME OF THE PREPARED EXERCISES DO NOT EXACTLY MIRROR THE ALL-STATE EXERCISES.

NOTE: For piccolo, English horn and Eb Clarinet, the student must obtain membership into the band on flute, oboe, and Bb clarinet (respectively). The students ONLY need to audition on the exercise and chromatic scale for piccolo, English horn and Eb Clarinet. There will be a full audition on the primary instrument (exercise on primary instrument, chromatic scale, major scales, sightreading).