As you apply to the College of Music at Florida State, memorize music from the Baroque era. The music faculty expects its applicants to choose their first audition piece, then they will choose music from an audition repertoire list that you submit the day of your scheduled audition, according to the Florida State University website.
If you are a non-performance applicant, memorize either a quick tempo movement from a Classical sonata or a baroque piece. Students planning to major in the performance, piano pedagogy and Bachelor of Music should memorize a prelude and fugue from the "Well-Tempered Clavier," composed by J.S. Bach. In addition, applicants should memorize a complete Haydn, Beethoven or Mozart sonata -- do not memorize Op. 49 and Op. 79.
Memorize a piece of music from either of the 19th, 20th or 21st centuries for your piano audition, if you plan to major in a non-performance music discipline. If you do plan to major in a performance discipline, Bachelor of Music or piano pedagogy, work on memorizing music from one of these centuries, says the Florida State University website.
Study and memorize at least two pieces of music for your audition at Meredith State College. Music instructors will listen to your audition, which should include music from the Classic era, a piece from the Baroque era and one composition from either the Contemporary or Romantic eras.
In addition to memorizing and performing these pieces, be ready to play arpeggios and scales. You will also be graded on your sight-reading ability.
Armstrong Atlantic State University gives each music major applicant a wide range of periods from which to choose. The faculty asks each applicant to prepare three contrasting pieces for their auditions.
In the Impressionism period, you have the choice of selecting, practicing and memorizing a piece from Debussy, Ravel or Griffes -- the faculty ask that you select any waltz, character piece or one movement of a multi-movement work from any one of these composers, states the Armstrong Atlantic State University website.
As you complete your application to the music program at Armstrong, you can select music pieces from the Romantic period. Music faculty stipulate that you should choose and memorize a character piece or one movement from a multi-movement composition.
Choose from any Romantic composer or use this list to make your choice: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Hensel, Nielsen, C. Schumann, Rachmaninoff, R. Schumann, Medtner, Albeniz, MacDowell, Brahms, Grieg, Field, Granados, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt or Faure.