Please review and prepare all requirements thoroughly. Auditions are held in person at NIU in February, unless otherwise determined. Please register for an audition date.
If you are unable to attend NIU's official audition days, contact our music admissions coordinator for permission to schedule an independent audition or obtain approval to submit an unedited video audition. Please bring copies of your music for the adjudication panel.
Questions? Contact Gregory Beyer at gbeyer@niu.edu.
Music minor applicants must perform solo études/works from a minimum of two of any of the following six areas:
Instrument | Composer/Author | Piece/Book |
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Rudimental Snare Drum | John S. Pratt | 14 Modern Contest Solos |
Charley Wilcoxon | The All-American Drummer 150 Rudimental Solos | |
Concert Snare Drum | Anthony Cirone | Portraits in Rhythm |
Jacques Delécluse | Douze Études pour Caisse-claire | |
Two-Mallet Keyboard |
Morris Goldenberg |
Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone |
G.H. Green |
George Hamilton Green's Xylophone Rags |
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J.S. Bach | Any selected movement from solo Violin Sonatas & Partitas or Cello Suites | |
Four-Mallet Keyboard | Nancy Zeltsman | Four-Mallet Marimba Playing, Section 4, "18 Intermediate-to-Advanced Adapted Solos |
Mark Ford | Marimba: Technique through Music | |
Bart Quartier | Image, 20 Children's Songs for Marimba | |
Timpani | Raynor Carroll | Exercises, Études and Solos for the Timpani |
Saul Goodman | Modern Method for Timpani | |
Jacques Delécluse | Trente Études pour Timbales | |
Elliott Carter | Eight Solos for Four Timpani | |
World Music | Michael Spiro | Language of the Masters |
Instrument | Composer/Author | Piece/Book |
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Multi-Percussion | Michio Kitazume | Side by Side |
Eckhard Kopetzki | Canned Heat | |
Alexis Lamb | Familiar | |
Alexis Lamb | Thai | |
David Lang | Unchained Melody | |
David Lang | Anvil Chorus | |
Kevin Volans | She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket | |
Kevin Volans | Asanga | |
Ben Wahlund | Murakami's Empty Chair | |
Ben Wahlund | 1800 and Counting | |
Ianis Xenakis | Rebonds b | |
Ianis Xenakis | Rebonds a | |
Ianis Xenakis | Psappha |