Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions Double Bass

In orchestras and at the universities forming consists of a practical and easily accessible edition of the orchestral excerpts presented at audition has long needed. The contents of this issue goes back to suggestions of the German Music Council and is based on statistical surveys of theGerman Orchestra Association (DOV) and on the many years of experience of the editors as an orchestral musician and university educators.

Table of Contents

• EXCERPTS AS PER AMEB LIST
• SYMPHONY NO 3 3RD MOVEMENT SCHERZO
• SYMPHONY NO 3 4TH MOVEMENT FINALE
• SYMPHONY NO 5 2ND MOVEMENT ANDANTE
• SYMPHONY NO 5 3RD MOVEMENT ALLEGRO
• SYMPHONY NO 9 4TH MOVEMENT PRESTO
• WOZZECK ACT 2 RONDO MARCIALE
• SYMPHONY NO 2 4TH MOVEMENT ALLEGRO CON SPIRITO
• SYMPHONY NO 4 4TH MOVEMENT FINALE
• SYMPHONY NO 6 1ST MOVEMENT MAESTOSO
• SYMPHONY NO 7 1ST MOVEMENT ALLEGRO MODERATO
• SYMPHONY NO 7 4TH MOVEMENT FINALE
• SYMPHONY NO 40 1ST MOVEMENT MOLTO ALLEGRO
• SYMPHONY NO 40 4TH MOVEMENT ALLEGRO ASSAI
• SYMPHONY NO 41 4TH MOVEMENT FINALE
• MARRIAGE OF FIGARO OVERTURE
• MAGIC FLUTE OVERTURE
• SYMPHONY NO 8 3RD MOVEMENT SCHERZO
• SYMPHONY NO 8 4TH MOVEMENT ALLEGRO VIVACE
• BARTERED BRIDE OVERTURE
• TILL EULENSPIEGELS LUSTIGE STREICHE
• DON JUAN
• EIN HELDENLEBEN
• SALOME ACT 4 SCENE
• DER ROSENKAVALIER ACT 2 ALLEGRO ASSAI
• RIGOLETTO ACT 1 NO 1 CHOR
• LA TRAVIATA ACT 1 SCENE 4
• LA TRAVIATA ACT 2 SCENE 2
• LA TRAVIATA ACT 2 SCENE 7
• LA TRAVIATA ACT 2 SCENE 8
• FORCE OF DESTINY
• AIDA ACT 4
• OTHELLO ACT 4
• FALLSTAFF ACT 3
• DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG
• DIE WALKURE
• SIEGFRIED
• DER FREISCHUTZ
• EURYANTHE
• OBERON
• WOZZECK ACT 3 SOLO PASSAGE
• LULU ACT 1 PROLOG SOLO PASSAGE
• LULU ACT 1 SCENE SOLO PASSAGE
• SYMPHONY NO 3 SOLO PASSAGE
• SYMPHONY NO 1 SOLO PASSAGE
• PALESTRINA ACT 3 SCENE SOLO PASSAGE
• ARIADNE ON NAXOS
• PULCINELLA SUITE
• RIGOLETTO SOLO PASSAGE
• DIE SOLDATEN SOLO PASSAGE

AMEB

Double Bass / Associate / List D

• Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Die verkaufte Braut (Orchester Probespiel)
• Vivo 7th movement from Pulcinella-suite (Orchester Probespiel)

Double Bass / Certificate of Performance / List D

• Allegro molto con brio from Don Juan (Orchester Probespiel)
• Finale 4th movement from Symphony No 7 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Molto allegro 1st movement and Allegro assai 4th movement from Symphony No 40 in G minor K 556 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Euryanthe (Orchester Probespiel)

Double Bass / Grade 6 / List C

• Act IV from Otello (Double bass solo 2 or Orchester Probespiel)
• Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen 3rd movement from Symphony No 1 in D major (Double bass solo 2 or Orchester Probespiel)
• Presto 4th movement from Symphony No 9 in D minor Op. 125 'The Choral' (Double bass solo 2 or Orchester Probespiel)

Double Bass / Grade 7 / List C

• Finale 4th movement from Symphony No 3 in Eb major (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Der Freischutz (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Die Zauberflote (Orchester Probespiel)

Double Bass / Grade 8 / List C

• Allegro con spirito 4th movement from Symphony No 2 in D major Op. 73 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Andante con moto 2nd movement and Allegro 3rd movement from Symphony No 5 in C minor Op. 67 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Molto allegro 4th movement from Symphony No 41 K 551 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Die Hochzeit des Figaro K 492 (Orchester Probespiel)
• Ouverture from Oberon (Orchester Probespiel)
• Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28 (Orchester Probespiel)

Double Bass / Licentiate / List D

• Finale from Symphony No 4 (Orchester Probespiel)