College of Musical Arts
Percussion Repertoire
Suggested Percussion Repertoire for Graduate Assistant Audition
- Advanced works for Marimba
- 4-mallet works
- Concerto for Marimba – Rosauro
- Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone – Milhaud
- Dream of the Cherry Blossoms – Abe
- Merlin – Thomas
- Michi – Abe
- My Lady White – Maslanka
- Time for Marimba – Miki
- Two Mexican Dances – Stout
- Variations of Lost Love – Maslanka
- Water and Fire – Skoog
- Wind in the Bamboo Grove – Abe
- 2-mallet works
- Concertino for Marimba – Creston
- Tambourin Chinois – Kreisler
- Selected Rags – G.H. Green
- Works for Vibraphone (4-mallet works)
- Ben Vindo – Rosauro
- Mourning Dove Sonnet – Deane
- Selections from Mirror from Another – Friedman
- Selections from Music of the Day – Molenhoff
- Trilogy – Huesgen
- Wallflower, Snowbird and Carillon – Gibson
- Timpani (minimum of 4 drums)
- Eight Pieces for 4 Timpani – Carter
- Four Verses for Timpani – Houllif
- Parita in C for 6 Timpani – Druschetzsky
- 3 Movements for 5 Timpani – Beck
- Snare Drum
- American Suite – Gauthreaux
- 6 Pieces for Unaccompanied Snare Drum – Colgrass
- Three Dances – Benson
- Any work by Mitch Markovitch
- Multiple Percussion or Drumset
- Any work by David Holliden
- Concerto for Solo Percussionist – Suderburg
- Concerto pour Batterie – Milhaud
- Inspirations Diabolique – Tagawa
- French Suite – Kraft
- Orchestral Excepts
- Porgy and Bess – Gershwin (xylophone)
- Colas Bruegnon – Kabalevsky (xylophone)
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Dukas (bell)
- Carnival Overture – Dvorak (tambourine)
- Capriccio Espagnol – Rimsky-Korsokov (snare)
- Lieutenant Kije Suite – Prokofiev (snare)
- Scheherzade – Rimsky-Korsokov (snare)
- Symphony No. 3 – Schumann (snare)
