Music Education Major:

Ten Reasons to Choose St. Olaf College for Music Education:

1. You have a passion for teaching and want to become a world-class educator.
2. You would describe yourself as an artist-teacher (you may want performance and education degrees).
3. You value degree choices on your way to licensure
    (St. Olaf has both B.A. and B. M. degree programs).
4. You want a program led by a licensed teacher, a superb teaching team, and practicing master teachers.
5. You value working with professors who know education, composition, music theory, history and music-making, and who are interested in helping you achieve your goals.
6. You want to work with other students who are talented, caring and supportive.
7. You want an excellent program of field studies in a variety of schools.
8. You want professors who know you to supervise your student teaching.
9. You value a student teaching placement where you are carefully matched with a fine mentor and supported throughout the experience.
10. You want a job.

For more information about our music education programs, please contact:

Linda M. Berger, Ph.D.
berger@stolaf.edu
612-242-1471 (cell)

Music Performance Major:

 

Just for Fun:

 

Audition Requirement:

B.A. MUSIC MAJOR and NON-MUSIC MAJOR

Bb clarinet audition requirements:
• The first or third movement from a standard concerto/solo piece
• One slowétude, preferably from Rose 32 Etudes for Clarinet
• Scales — ascending and descending, slurred and tongued in 16th–note
format with quarter note = 96. 
a) Chromatic scale (up to high F)
b) Two of the following: E major, F major, G major (three octaves)
Finalists should be prepared to play any of these scales at live audition.

 

Bass clarinet audition requirements

Two Solo pieces:

- BWV 1008 (Prelude) from Cello Suite II by J.S.Bach

(transcribed for solo bass clarinet, slurred and tongued in 16th notes, quarter = 72.)

- BWV 1009 (Prelude) from Cello Suite III by J.S. Bach

(transcribed for solo bass clarinet, slurred and tongued in 16th notes, quarter = 96.)
Suggested edition: J.S. Bach : Six Suites for unaccompanied cello BWV 1007-1012 by Michael & Kimberly Davenport, Alea Publishing, 2005). , 4th edition, P.10 and P. 18;

(Similar transcriptions can be provided if needed, email music@stolaf.edu for more information)

a) chromatic (up to high F)

b) one of the following: E major, F major, (three octaves)

(finalists should be prepared to play any of these scales at live audition.)

B.M. PERFORMANCE MAJOR
• First or third movement from any concerto by Weber, Mozart, or Spohr
• One slowétude, preferably from Rose 32 Etudes for Clarinet
• Scales — ascending and descending, full range of instrument, slurred and
tongued, in 16th–note format with quarter note = 118
a) Chromatic scale (up to high G)
b) Two of the following: E major, F major, G major (three octaves)
Finalists should be prepared to play any of these scales at live audition.
• Excerpts:
a) Beethoven Symphony No. 6: 1st movement, 2 bars before K to end and
2nd movement, rehearsal D to rehearsal E
a) Brahms Symphony No. 3: 2nd movement, opening through m. 22
b) Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol: 1st movement, all solo passages.
All excerpts and solo are required for CD and live auditions.

 

 

 

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