Orchestral Excerpts for Piccolo

Following the success of “Orchestral Excerpts for Flute,” Theodore Presser Company presents “Orchestral Excerpts for Piccolo.” 36 of the most common orchestral piccolo audition excerpts are represented with solo part, piano reduction, and practice and performance commentary from Jack Wellbaum, longtime piccoloist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and teacher at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Contents:

Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra (Mvt III, bar 12; Mvt III, bar 54; Mvt III, bar 106;Mvt IV, bar 413)
Bartok – Rumanian Folk Dances (Mvt III – complete)
Beethoven – Symphony #5 (Mvt IV, bar 694)
Beethoven – Symphony #9 (Mvt IV, bar 331, bar 843)
Berlioz – La Damnation de Faust, Menuet des Follets (before rehearsal 1 (2 piccolos); before rehearsal 10 (2 piccolos))
Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique (Mvt V, rehearsal 60; rehearsal 63)
Borodin – Prince Igor, Polovetsian Dances (before rehearsal C; before rehearsal K)
Brahms – Variations on a Themes by Joseph Haydn (Variation V – complete; Variation VIII – complete)
Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Variation A; Fugue)
Delibes – Coppelia, #11: Musique des Automates
Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (opening; before rehearsal 52)
Hindemith – Nobilissima Visione, #4 (Mvt 2, opening)
Ippolotov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches, #4 (opening)
Liadov – Eight Russian Folk Songs, #7 (complete)
Mahler – Symphony #2 (Mvt IV, before rehearsal 4; Mvt V, rehearsal 30)
Prokofiev – Lieutenant Kije (Birth of Kije, opening; Troika, before rehearsal 51)
Ravel – Daphnis et Chloe (rehearsal 156; before rehearsal 182)
Ravel – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (opening)
Ravel – Bolero (rehearsal 8 (2 piccolos))
Ravel – Ma Mere L’oye – Mother Goose (Petit Poucet, rehearsal 5; Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes, opening)
Ravel – Rapsodie Espagnole (Malaguena, before rehearsal 13; Feria, opening; Feroa, before rehearsal 9)
Rimsky-Korsakov – Sherherazade (Mvt 4, after rehearsal V)
Rossini – Overture to “La Gazza Ladra” (bar 180; bar 337)
Rossini – Overture to “La Scala di Seta” (before rehearsal 13)
Rossini – Overture to “Semiramide” (bar 128; bar 187; bar 327)
Shostakovich – Symphony #5 (Mvt I, rehearsal 41; Mvt I, rehearsal 45; Mvt II, before rehearsal 53; Mvt II, before rehearsal 69)
Shostakovich – Symphony #6 (Mvt I, rehearsal 8; Mvt II, rehearsal 71)
Shostakovich – Symphony #8 (Mvt II, before rehearsal 53; Mvt IV, rehearsal 118)
Shostakovich – Symphony #9 (Mvt I, before rehearsal 7; Mvt II, rehearsal 48; Mvt III, before rehearsal 50; Mvt III, before rehearsal 61)
Shostakovich – Symphony #10 (Mvt I, before rehearsal 69 (2 piccolos))
Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever (G Major version, Trio)
Stravinsky – Firebird Suite 1919 version (Variations de l’oiseau de feu, complete; Ronde des princesses, from rehearsal 13)
Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker (Chinese Dance, complete)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony #4 (Mvt III, rehearsal E; before rehearsal I)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony #6 (Mvt III, before rehearsal E; rehearsal Bb; before rehearsal K)
Wagner – Die Walkure (Magic Fire Music)