Auditions: Undergraduate - Guitar

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​Applicants pursuing ​Jazz Guitar must submit a prescreen by December 1. ​​Classical applicants do not need to submit a prescreen.

For jazz applicants, please scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Jazz Guitar drop-down box for audition requirements.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Students auditioning on guitar choose to audition either as a classical guitarist or as a jazz guitarist. A classical audition is not required of jazz guitarists, and a jazz audition is not required of classical guitarists. Please note: DePaul School of Music does not offer auditions or instruction in other styles of guitar (such as rock, pop, or contemporary).

Please see the audition requirements below.

Classical Guitar Audition Repertoire

Applicants should choose one piece from three of the following four categories:

• a work from the Renaissance or Baroque period such as a lute (or Vihuela) work by Da Milano, Narvaez, Dowland or Scarlatti, Weiss, and Bach (a single movement from a suite in the latter two cases), or other composers from the same period
• a 19th-century work by Sor, Aguado, Giuliani, Mertz, Tárrega, or equivalent
• an early 20th-century work from composers such as Albeniz, Granados, Falla, Turina or Torroba, Ponce, Villa-Lobos, Barrios and Castlenuovo-Tedesco, or equivalent
• a later 20th-century work by composers such as Brouwer, Britten, Henze, Martin, Rodrigo, Walton, or equivalent​ 
  

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