Orchestral Excerpts

Hi everyone,

In todays post I will be talking about orchestral excerpts.

As you progress through your musical journey you will be introduced to orchestral excerpts; and these are extracts taken from well known orchestral pieces.

Orchestral excerpts can be used as part of the higher music grades, music degrees, and orchestral auditions. There's loads of resources out there to help you to prepare, and these are just my own personal selection of Orchestral Excerpts for the flute and piccolo. You can buy orchestral excerpts for all instruments, and you should be able to find a nice selection for your chosen instrument.

Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions (Peters Edition)

The Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions is required for the technical option for Trinity College London grades 6 - 8, and this is an alternative to doing scales and arpeggios. It's also available for a wide range of instruments.

Orchestral Excerpts for Flute/ Piccolo by Jeanne Baxtresser

This is a series of orchestral excerpts books by Jeanne Baxtresser who is a former Principle Flute for the New York Philharmonic, and what I really like about these books is that Jeanne gives you advice and guidance on how to get the best out of the orchestral excerpts throughout. There's two books for the flute and one for the piccolo.

Orchestral Studies

These books just focus on one or two composers, but this range of books does consist of four books featuring different composers. There's also a glossary at the front of each book explaining the layout of the book and what each symbol means.