DMA applicants should prepare ALL of the items listed above for the MM audition (snare, mallet, and timpani solos and the indicated orchestral excerpts), plus the following additional excertps:
- Snare: Ravel - Bolero, Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnole, Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5
- Xylophone: Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, Kodaly - Hary Janos, Schuman - Symphony No. 3
- Glockenspiel: Respighi - Pines of Rome, Stravinsky - Petrushka (1911), Debussy - La Mer
- Tambourine: Chabrier - España, Tchaikovsky - "Trepak" from The Nutcracker, Bizet - Carmen Suites I and II
- Triangle: Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1, Dvorak - Symphony No. 9
- Cymbals: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2, Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
- Bass Drum: Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
- Timpani: Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 9, Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis, Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra