Horn audition excerpts - Piano accompaniment: Volume 4

253 pages.

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This book contains passages for horn from orchestra and opera repertoire which a musician is expected to perform for orchestra auditions. Only the most important and most asked excerpts are included in this book. In addition to the horn scores, this book presents the musical context of the excerpt through the use of piano reductions. The musician can use this book to look up the musical context before or during the excerpt (instrumentation, rhythm, etc.).

Furthermore, these scores can be utilized by piano players as well to accompany horn players during their studies of the excerpts.

The following excerpts are included:

Giacomo Puccini – Tosca

Richard Strauss – Don Juan

• Horn I
• Horn IV
• Tutti I
• Tutti II

Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Richard Strauss – Don Quixote

• Variation I „Adventure at the Windmills“
• Variation VII „The Ride through the Air”
• Variation VIII „The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat”

Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben

• 1. „Der Held – The Hero“
• 3. „Des Heldes Gefährtin – The Hero’s Companion“
• 4. „Des Helden Walstatt – The Hero at Battle”
• 6. „Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung – The Hero’s Retirement from this World and Completion”

Richard Strauss – Salome

Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier

Einleitung – Introduction

• Act 1: „De rigori armato il seno“
• Act 2: Rosenüberreichung – Presentation of the rose
• Act 2: „Wird Sie das Mannsbild da heiraten, ma cousine?“
• Act 3: Schneller Walzer

Richard Strauss – Eine Alpensinfonie

• „Der Anstieg – The Ascent”
• „Eintritt in den Wald – Entry in the forest“
• „Durch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen – Through Thickets and Undergrowth on the Wrong Path”

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1 „Titan”

• 1st movement 
• 3rd movement

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3

• Horn I
• Horn IV

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 4

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5

• 1st movement “Trauermarsch – Funeral March”
• 3rd movement “Scherzo”

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 6 „Tragische – Tragic”

• 1st movement
• 4th movement: Finale

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9

• 1st movement: Horn II
• 1st movement: Horn I
• 4th movement