Would this work for music auditions?

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<p>I want to be accepted into BU’s music program (mostly cause of the awesome abroad study opportunities at Royal College of Music)</p>

<p>I’m going for music theory, composition, and education.</p>

<p>The piano audition is listed as:

  • Baroque piece
  • Full Beethoven sonata
  • Challenging piece from Romantic period
  • Challenging modern piece (1900-2000)</p>

<p>I was going to use

  • a Fugue from Well Tempered Clavier, or Toccatta and Fugue in E Minor or Chromatic Fantasy (I’m really sucky at chromatics though)
  • Pathetique Sonata (Op. 4, no. 8)
  • Rach’s Prelude in C# Minor or Prelude in G Minor
  • Mephisto Waltz by Listz</p>

<p>The problems I see with this are

  • Pathetique might be too easy
  • Prelude in C# Minor might be too easy
  • Listz is considered Romantic. Even the Mephisto Waltz is SO contemporary.</p>

<p>Any thoughts?</p>

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<p>I meant “even though the Mephisto Waltz is SO contemporary”</p>

<p>Advice would be m/a btw :)</p>

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<p>Why not just apply to the Royal College of Music in the first place? :D</p>

<p>I wouldn’t worry about any of those pieces being ‘too easy’. They’re fine if you can pull them off with convincing musicality. I personally wouldn’t consider Liszt to be ‘modern’ though.</p>

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<p>If you are applying as an undergrad, then you should contact the piano faculty and ask them if there is any flexibility in the requirements. Sometimes they are strict, sometimes they post guidelines. . so ask away.</p>

<p>Also, do you have a private instructor? If so, has this person helped you pick your material? If not, you should be asking them as well.</p>

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<p>Liszt is not 20th century (he died in 1886). Bach also wrote some “modern” sounding pieces, but that doesn’t mean you can count him for a 20th-21st century piece. They mean something like Bartok, though even that could be borderline for these purposes. Look at pieced composed in the 20th and 21st centuries.</p>