Orchestral Test Pieces [Probespiel] (Rosin/Pleyer)
This excerpt book contains material for both tenor and bass trombone. It also includes a number of works not available anywhere else (in bold), even in individual part form. Each selection is a true excerpt—a short segment of the music that encompasses the most often required section at auditions. For Tenor Trombone: BARTOK Concerto for Orchestra; BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis; BERG 3 Orchestra Pieces; Lulu; Wozzeck; BERLIOZ Symphony Fantastique; Hungarian March; BLACHER Orchestra Variations; BORODIN Prince Igor; BRAHMS Symhonies Nos. 1 & 2; MAHLER Symphony No. 3; MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana; MOZART Magic Flute; Requiem (2nd trombone solo); PFITZNER Palestrina; PUCCINI Turandot; RAVEL Bolero; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherezade; ROSSINI William Tell; Die diebische Elster; SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; STRAUSS Don Juan; Death & Transfiguration; Till Eulenspiegel; Also Sprach Zarathustra; Arabella; STRAVINSKY Firebird; Pulcinella; VERDI Die Macht der Schicksals; Othello; WAGNER Lohengrin; Rheingold (scale only); Siegfried; Walkure (w/Major & minor Ride). ForBass Trombone: BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9; Missa Solemnis; BERLIOZ Hungarian March; Symphony Fantastique; BRAHMS Symphony No 1; CHABRIER Espana; CORNELIUS Barber of Baghdad; DELIBES Copplia; HAYDN The Creation; JANACEK Sinfonieta; KODALY Hary Janos; LEONCAVALLO Dr. Bajazzo; MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana; ROSSINI William TellSTRAUSS Also Sprach (descending arpeggiated figure); Elektra; Ariadne auf Naxos; Burger als Edelmann; Till Eulenspiegel; VERDI Othello; WAGNER Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Das Rheingold; Siegfreid; Walkure.