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Trombone Excerpts

This document lists over 50 orchestral works and excerpts that are commonly requested for bass trombone auditions, as well as solo pieces. The most frequently asked orchestral excerpts include works by Wagner such as the Ride of the Walküre and Tannhäuser Overture. Other commonly requested composers are R. Strauss, Rossini, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. The most frequent solo piece is the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 5.

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Trombone Excerpts

This document lists over 50 orchestral works and excerpts that are commonly requested for bass trombone auditions, as well as solo pieces. The most frequently asked orchestral excerpts include works by Wagner such as the Ride of the Walküre and Tannhäuser Overture. Other commonly requested composers are R. Strauss, Rossini, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. The most frequent solo piece is the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 5.

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Ravel - Bolero

Brahms - Symphony 1
Mozart - Requiem (Tuba Mirum)
R. Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel
Berlioz - Hungarian March (Damnation of Faust)l
Rossini - William Tell Overture
Wagner - Ride of Die Walkure
Wagner - Tannhauser Overture
Brahms - Symphony 4
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
R. Schumann - Symphony 3 ("Rhenish")
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamophosis
Mahler - Symphony 3
Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Overture
R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Wagner - Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Rossini - La Gazza Ladra Overture
St. Saens - Symphony 3 ("Organ")
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Berg - Three Pieces
Borodin - Polovetsian Dances
Brahms - Symphony 2
Hindemith - Mathis der Maler
Stravinsky - Petroushka
Bartok - MIraculous Mandarin
Brahms - Tragic Overture
Schubert - Symphony 9 ("Great C Major")
Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
Stravinsky - Pulcinella
Verdi - La Forza del destino
Beethoven - Symphony 5
Beethoven - Symphony 9
Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture
Mahler - Symphony 5
Tchaikovsky - Symphony 4, 5, 6
BASS TROMBONE ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
(in order of frequency asked)
Wagner - Ride of the Walkure (also a second excerpt)
Kodaly - Hary Janos
R. Strauss - Ein Heldenleben (also a second excerpt, third excerpt and fourth ex
cerpt)
Wagner - Tannhauser Overture
Wagner - Das Rheingold (Scene 2)
Wagner - Das Rheingold (Spear motive)
Wagner - Das Rheingold (Entrance of the gods to Valhalla)
R. Schumann - Symphony 3 ("Rhenish")
Franck - Symphony in d minor (also a second excerpt)
Wagner - Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III
Haydn - The Creation
Beethoven - Symphony 9
Respighi - Fountains of Rome
Mozart - Requiem (Kyrie)
Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin
Respighi - Pines of Rome
R. Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel (also a second excerpt)
R. Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Rossini - William Tell Overture


Rossini - La Gazza Ladra Overture (also a second excerpt and a third excerpt)
Berlioz - Hungarian March (Damnation of Faust)
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Brahms - Symphony 1, 4
Tchaikovsky - Symphony 4,5,6
Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
Prokofiev - Symphony 5
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis
Berg - Wozzeck
Berg - Violin Concerto
Mahler - Symphony 7
Prokofiev - Lt. Kije Suite
Schubert - Symphony 9 ("Great C Major")
Shostakovich - Symphony 5
In addition, the most frequently asked solo piece for bass trombonists at orches
tral auditions is
Bach - Sarabande from Cello Suite 5

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