Bachelor of Music, Performer’s Certificate, Master of Music, Graduate Performance Diploma, Doctor of Musical Arts
Archlute
- Two contrasting movements by Giovanni Zamboni
- A movement of 17th century Italian music (Falconieri, e.g.)
Baroque Cello
- Two movements from an unaccompanied Bach suite
- Two contrasting movements from an 18th-century sonata
Baroque Flute
- One movement from a sonata by Bach
- One fantasia for solo flute of G.P. Telemann
- A prelude from one of the solo suites of J. Hotteterre
- A movement from a late 18th-century sonata (past 1750)
Baroque Lute
- Two contrasting movements by Silvius Leopold Weiss
- A movement of 17th-century French lute music (Gaultier, e.g.)
Baroque Oboe
- A sonata by Handel or Telemann
- A work by a French Baroque composer
- A work of the applicant’s choice
Baroque Violin
- One movement from an unaccompanied Bach sonata or partita or a Telemann fantasy
- Any solo work by a 17th-century composer
- Two contrasting movements from an 18th-century sonata
Baroque Viola
- Two movements of unaccompanied Bach, either from the violin sonatas and partitas or from the cello suites
- Two contrasting movements from an 18th-century sonata
Harpsichord
- A work by J.S. Bach
- A work by a French Baroque composer
- A work from the 17th century
- A work of the applicant’s choice
Recorder
- A sonata by Handel or Telemann
- A theme and two variations by van Eyck
- Two movements from a French Baroque suite
- A work of the applicant’s choice
Renaissance Lute
- A work by John Dowland
- A work by Francesco da Milano
- A work of the applicant’s choice
Theorbo
- Two contrasting movements of Robert de Visée
- A movement of 17th-century Italian music (Piccinini, e.g.)
Voice
- Pre-screening requirements:
- Undergraduate
- For undergraduate applicants intending to audition in person at Peabody, a pre-screening video with three selections must be uploaded to the Peabody application.
- Of the three classical selections required, at least one should be in English and one in a foreign language. Selections must be memorized, and should show a variety of styles and tempi.
- Graduate
- A short video of two arias and a song (one in English) is required to be uploaded to the Peabody application for pre-screening.
- Requirements follow those of the MM in Voice, except that four or five of the 6 selections must be written before 1800. A Gregorian chant and at least one selection from the Renaissance should be included. Voice requirements for MM can be found here.
Viola da Gamba
- One ricercar from Diego Ortiz: Tratado de Glosas
- One prolusio from Christopher Simpson: The Division Viol (Part III)
- Two contrasting movements from an Abel sonata or similar work
Artist Diploma
AD applicants must prepare a program of no less than 70 minutes duration, including at least two large-scale works.