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Prescreening Recording(audio or video; piano not required): 1. Applicants should prepare repertoire that will show their playing to the best advantage with the most variety possible both instrumentally and musically. 2. Repertoire should display a broad range of styles, genres, and technical abilities, with examples covering the full range of the i...
Prescreening Recording: 1. Applicants should submit scores and recordings of two to three recent works (no more than three will be considered; multi-movement works are suitable) which may be written for different genres or instrumentations and/or electronic media. 2. Composers should upload PDFs of scores, as well as recordings, videos, or external...
Prescreening Recording(video required): 1. Applicants should submit video excerpts that best showcase their orchestral-conducting skills. While no specific repertoire is required, the recording should include at least two contrasting musical styles of standard orchestral repertoire. 2. Submitted videos must have been filmed within the previous twel...
Prescreening Recording for M.M., M.M.A., and Certificate applicants(audio or video): 1. a work by J.S. Bach (prepare the larger movement—the Prelude, or Prelude and Fugue); arrangements of music by Scarlatti, Francesca Caccini, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre; three movements from a Silvius Leopold Weiss suite; or others; 2. a work or two sho...
Prescreening Recording(audio or video): 1. a work by Bach or another Baroque composer including but not limited to Scarlatti (two sonatas of contrasting style) or Handel; 2. a solo work from the standard repertoire, including but not limited to Impromptu by Fauré, Suite by Britten, Légende by Renié, works by Parish Alvars, or Rhapsodieby Grandjany;...
Prescreening Recording: 1. any contrapuntal work by J.S. Bach; 2. two or more French dances from either the seventeenth or eighteenth century; and 3. applicant’s choice: in addition to the abovementioned repertoire, please choose a representative example from either the English Virginalist school, an early seventeenth-century Italian toccata, a son...
Prescreening Recording: Representative works from the major areas of organ literature: 1. a major work by Bach, 2. a Romantic work, and 3. a work by a composer born after 1900. Live Audition: 1. Organ applicants are strongly encouraged, though not required, to perform different works from those on the prescreening recording. However, works should b...
Prescreening Recording (unedited video): 1. a major work composed for either marimba or vibraphone, 2. one piece from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, 3. a solo piece for multiple percussion, and 4. an étude for snare drum. Live Audition: 1. a major work composed for either marimba or vibraphone (examples of acceptable works include,...
Prescreening Recording(audio or video; no concertos): 1. a Bach prelude and fugue or another original work by Bach (not a transcription); 2. a sonata or variations by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert (for the prescreening recording, applicants should provide at least two contrasting movements; for a live audition, applicants should prepare an ...
Prescreening Recording(video preferred, with high-quality audio): 1. one movement of an unaccompanied Bach sonata or partita (A.D., M.M.A., and D.M.A. applicants must provide two movements); 2. first movement of a Mozart concerto; 3. any Paganini caprice; 4. one movement of a Classical (other than Mozart), Romantic, or twentieth-century concerto; a...
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Admission Procedures. Instructions for Application. The Yale School of Music application for the 2018–2019 academic year is available online at http://music.yale.edu. The online application deadline is December 1, 2017. The information that follows will assist applicants in filing the application.
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The institute’s Admissions Committee will consider applications for all degree programs, invite music applicants for auditions and interviews, and then make its recommendations to the appropriate admissions committee of either the School of Music or the Divinity School. Letters of acceptance will be sent to successful candidates on or around ...
