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State Conference 2025-May 30-31, Oklahoma State University

Band & Orchestral Instruments Requirements

The following guidelines are for District and State repertoire. Students who do not meet these requirements will be performing for “Critique Only.”

  • Memorization is not required
  • Repertoire written with accompaniment must be performed with a collaborative pianist. Teachers may accompany their students. No recorded accompaniments. Performances must be live. Recorded accompaniments are strongly recommended for E-Achievement Auditions.

Acceptable repertoire

  • Memorization is not required.
  • Repertoire must include a minimum of sixteen measures of the solo to be performed. Accompaniment-only measures do not count as performed measures.
  • Arrangements, adaptations, and transcriptions are acceptable.
  • Multi-movements from a multi-movement work will be accepted as one composition.
  • All variations must be performed in the theme and variations work.
  • A group of pieces taken from a collection by the same composer is not considered a multi-movement work and only one piece will be accepted on the entry form.
  • Compositions may not be cut or altered except for dot repeats. First endings may be cut following a D.S. or D.C. repeat.
  • Repertoire written with accompaniment must be performed with a collaborative pianist. Teachers may accompany their students. Recorded accompaniments are not acceptable. Performances must be live.
  • Entrants performing with a collaborative pianist may be allowed to have their collaborative pianist make cuts in lengthy instrumental accompaniment passages to allow for a more continuous performance for the entrant.

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