All Region Practice Resources

Symphonic Orchestra
​(10th & 11th & 12th Grades)

Symphonic Materials

1) Scales:
 *3 octave up to 3 sharps & 3 flats & their relative melodic minors.
Basses only 2 octaves no drop scales.
- Quarter Notes = 120 BPM
- Repeat the top note
- Detache bowings
- No Vibrato

2) 2 Etudes:
Violin & Viola - Mazas & Wohlfart 
Cello - Lee & Schroeder/Dotzauer
Bass - Simandl & Simandl

3) Excerpt:
Mozart's Magic Flute

4) Sight Reading:
​(20 sec.)

Concert Orchestra
​(8th & 9th Grades)

Concert Materials

1) Scales:
*2 octave up to 3 sharps & 3 flats & their relative melodic minors only for a, d, & g.
Basses use drop down scales for D & Eb.
- Quarter Notes = 100 BPM
- Repeat the top note 
- Detache bowings
- No Vibrato

2) 3 Etudes:
Scherhezade 
My Old Kentucky Home
March

3) Sight Reading:
(20 sec.)

Cadet Orchestra
​(7th & 8th Grades)

Cadet Materials

1) Scales:
*2 octave Violin D & G
Viola & Cello C & G 
Bass G & D (drop down D scale).
All play a melodic minor 1 octave
- Quarter Notes = 120 BPM
- Repeat the top note 
- Detache bowings
- No Vibrato

2) 4 Etudes:
Jolly Sailor 
Danse Macabre
Listen to the Mockingbird
​La Cucaracha

All State Feb. 2020 Practice Resources

Audition Script

2/7 & 2/8 Schedule

Practice & listening materials 
(all-state at the bottom of the page)

Excerpts  
(Set III for Feb. 2020)

Scale Guidlines

Scale Practice