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High School Band
Audition Excerpts

2025-26

Piccolo
  • The Chimes of Liberty (Edwin Franko Goldman)
  • 25 Studies (Louis Francois Drouet), No. 16
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Flute
  • Divertimento for Band (Vincent Persichetti), "Song"
  • The Black Horse Troop (John Phillip Sousa)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Oboe
  • Four Scottish Dances (Malcom Arnold), Mvt III
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Bassoon
  • Suite in Eb (Gustav Holst), II
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), "Overture"
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Clarinet
  • Overture to "Egmont" (Beethoven), Op. 84
  • Sea Songs (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Bass & Contra Bass Clarinet
  • Appalachian Spring (Copland), "Variations on a Shaker Melody"
  • Lyrical Etude (Carl Baermann), Eb Major
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Alto Saxophone
  • Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) "Horkstow Grange"
  • Danzon No. 2 (Arturo Marquez)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Tenor Saxophone
  • Chester (William Schuman)
  • Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) "Lost Lady Found"
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Baritone Saxophone
  • First Suite in Eb (Holst) "Chaconne"
  • Blue Shades (Frank Ticheli)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Trumpet
  • Variations on a Korean Folk Song (John Barnes Chance)
  • Florentiner March (Julius Fucik)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Horn
  • Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov)
  • Children's March (Grainger)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Trombone
  • The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa)
  • Melodius Etudes (Rochut), No. 15
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Euphonium
  • Melodius Etudes (Rochut), No. 16
  • Colonial Song (Grainger)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Tuba
  • The Planets (Holst), "Jupiter"
  • Overture to Rienzi (Wagner)
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Concert Eb Major Scale
Percussion
  • Snare: Peter and the Wolf, March (Prokofiev)
  • Crash Cymbal: Symphony No. 4, IV Finale
  • Mallets: Colas Breugnon Overture
  • Timpani (4) Rotation No. 3
 
Chairperson
Christopher Barlow
Ellsworth HS
211 W. 11th
Ellsworth, KS 67439
w: 785-472-4471
Important Dates - HS Band
Oct. 29, 2025 - Wed
Audition Upload Deadline — HS Band
$5 audition fee per completed audition
Dec. 6, 2025 - Sat
Mini Convention II
HS Band, HS Choir, NW/SW HS Orchestra, Elem. Choir
Fort Hays State University
$15 participation fee per selected student

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