{"id":759,"date":"2026-05-13T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/music\/?page_id=759"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:01:11","slug":"saxophone-audition-repertoire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/degrees\/saxophone-audition-repertoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxophone audition repertoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Saxophone audition repertoire<\/h1>\n<h2>Undergraduate and graduate alto and tenor saxophone audition requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>all major scales<\/li>\n<li>two contrasting etudes and\/or a piece from the saxophone literature in which you may best demonstrate tone quality, technique, articulation, phrasing and expression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Example of etudes\/alto saxophone literature:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>48 Famous Studies for oboe or saxophone<\/em>\u00a0by Ferling<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected Studies for Saxophone<\/em>\u00a0by Voxman<\/li>\n<li><em>Bozza,\u00a0Improvisation et Caprice<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Creston:\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dressel:\u00a0<em>Bagatellen<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eccles:\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Glazunov:\u00a0<em>Concerto<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Handel:\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Heiden;\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lunde:\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Maurice:\u00a0<em>Tableaux de Provence<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tull:\u00a0<em>Sarabande and Gigue<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Examples of etudes\/tenor saxophone literature:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>48 Famous Studies for oboe or saxophone<\/em>\u00a0by Ferling<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected Studies for Saxophone<\/em>\u00a0by Voxman<\/li>\n<li>Burkholder:\u00a0<em>Sonata<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Caravan:\u00a0<em>Quiet Time<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Porpora:\u00a0<em>Sinfonia<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Schmidt:\u00a0<em>Sonatina<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vivaldi:\u00a0<em>Sonata in g minor<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Saxophone studio website<\/h2>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/performance-areas\/bands\/saxophone-studio\/\">saxophone studio website<\/a> for more information about the program.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/about\/directory\/\">Jonathan Bergeron<\/a>, Saxophone<\/p>\n<p>Office: Bldg. 37, Room 189<br \/>\nPhone: 928-523-3166<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Jonathan.Bergeron@nau.edu\">Jonathan.Bergeron@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saxophone audition repertoire Undergraduate and graduate alto and tenor saxophone audition requirements all major scales two contrasting etudes and\/or a piece from the saxophone literature in which you may best demonstrate tone quality, technique, articulation, phrasing and expression Example of etudes\/alto saxophone literature: 48 Famous Studies for oboe or saxophone\u00a0by Ferling Selected Studies for Saxophone\u00a0by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"parent":386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":null,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-759","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759\/revisions\/5211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}