Private Instruction Final Exam Requirements - Woodwind

Levels 1 - 8

The requirements for Levels 1 and 2 are the same for all programs. Beginning at Level 3, there are two “tracks,” one for Performance majors (Performance Track) and one for all other majors (Standard Track). For each level the student must prepare an etude and a solo, in contrasting styles, in addition to the scale and chord requirements. Note: These requirements refer to the minimum expectations.

• All exercises are to be performed using the full range of the instrument (exceptions: modes performed within the octave, arpeggios played in cycles, and exams on a doubling instrument).
• *Range for Doubling Exams: Flute to High G, Clarinet to High F, Oboe to High D

*All exercises should be played in eighth notes with a minimum tempo of eigth note = 180 (quarter note =90).

The number of exam levels you must pass depends on your major:

All Writing Division, Music Technology Division, Music Business, and Music Therapy majors:

• 4 levels on principal instrument (Standard Track)

Professional Music & Music Education majors:

• 6 levels on principal instrument (Standard Track). Levels 5 & 6 have an optional track that may be chosen with the permission of the PI instructor and the department chair.

Performance majors:

• 8 levels on principal instrument (Performance Track)

-All scales and arpeggios are to be played FULL RANGE for EVERY level-

Levels 1 & 2 - All Students

Level 1

• Play all major scales full range using mixed articulations
• Related modes to all major scales, played within the octave, ascending and descending
• All major triad arpeggios played straight and broken (groups of 3’s and groups of 4’s)
• Chromatic Scale (full range)

Level 2

• All melodic minor scales full range using mixed articulations
• Related modes of all melodic minor scales, played within the octave, ascending and descending
• All minor triad arpeggios played straight and broken (groups of 3’s and groups of 4’s)

Level 3

Standard Track

• All harmonic minor scales full range using mixed articulations
• All harmonic minor modes, played within the octave, ascending and descending
• All augmented and diminished triads played straight and broken (groups of 3’s and groups of 4’s)

Performance Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic thirds
• All harmonic minor modes
• All augmented and diminished triads
• Diatonic triads in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys

Level 4

Standard Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic thirds
• Arpeggios (in all keys): major seventh, dominant seventh, minor seventh, minor seventh (b5), diminished seventh, augmented seventh, major sixth, and minor sixth
• Diatonic triads in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys

Performance Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic fourths
• Arpeggios: major seventh, dominant seventh, minor seventh, minor seventh (b5), diminished seventh, augmented seventh, major sixth, and minor sixth in different cycles
• Diatonic seventh chords in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys

Level 5

Standard Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic fourths
• Arpeggios: major seventh, dominant seventh, minor seventh, minor seventh (b5), diminished seventh, augmented seventh, major sixth, and minor sixth in different cycles
• Diatonic seventh chords in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys

Standard Track (Optional)

• Private lesson on doubling instrument (Level 1 Final Exam)

Performance Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic fifths
• Arpeggios: major ninth, dominant ninth, minor ninth, minor ninth (b5), augmented ninth, augmented ninth (b9) in different cycles
• Diatonic ninth chords in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys
• Diminished scales: sharp one, sharp two and both forms of symmetric
• Whole tone scales

Level 6

Standard Track

• Perform 10 minutes of prepared literature with live accompaniment (one chordal accompanying instrument)

Standard Track (Optional Track)

• Private lesson on second doubling (Level 1 Final Exam)

Performance Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic sixths
• Diatonic eleventh chords in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys
• Arpeggios: major ninth (#11), dominant ninth (11), dominant ninth (#11), dominant ninth (#5, #11), minor ninth (11), minor ninth (b5, 11) in different cycles
• Transposing instruments sight transpose from concert, and concert instruments sight transpose various clefs

Level 7

Performance Track

• All major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor scales in diatonic sevenths
• Diatonic thirteenth chords in all major, harmonic minor and real melodic minor keys
• Arpeggiate the following thirteenth chords in various cycles:

1        3        5        7        9       #11        13

1      b3        5      b7        9         11        13

1        3        5      b7        9       #11        13

1        3        5      b7      b9       #11        13

1      b3      b5      b7        9         11      b13

1      b3      b5      b7      b9         11      b13

1      b3        5      b7      b9         11      b13

Level 8

Performance Track

The student should demonstrate knowledge of the following techniques through selected repertoire and/or improvisation.

• Multiphonics
• Altissimo register playing
• Harmonics
• Special effects trills and tremelos