USC mUSiC RECITAL PROGRAMME APPLICATION WORKSHEET
  • RECITAL PROGRAMME APPLICATION WORKSHEET

    Please submit electronically along with Recital Checklist Form. This must be submitted once you have successfully passes your hearing, at least two weeks before the scheduled date of your recital.
    • All music majors are required to perform the recital(s) required for the completion of their degree program.  No substitutions (forums/juries etc.) are acceptable for the fulfilment of this requirement.
    • A Junior recital constitutes a minimum of 25 minutes of music and a Senior Recital consists of a minimum of 40 minutes of music as approved by the student’s performance studies instructor.  Guidelines for  studio/non-degree recitals should be approved by the student’s applied music / performance studies instructor.
    • Every music major or minor planning to perform a degree recital is required to pass a recital hearing in which the student must be prepared to perform the complete recital programme.  The student must complete and submit the hearing application form and successfully pass the hearing before being allowed to present the associated recital.
  • Program Information

  • Programme Repertoire

    Include the following information: Title of each piece, Title of larger work (if applicable), Composer’s name, Composer’s dates, and the duration (minutes and seconds) of each piece or song.
  • Examples:

  • 1. Non piú andrai Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

        from The Marriage of Figaro (1756-1791)

        Duration = 3:50


    2. Empty Chairs at Empty Tables Claude-Michel Schönberg

        from Les Miserables (b. 1944)

        Duration = 2:45


    3. Sonatine pour Trombone et Piano Jacques Castérède

        Allegro vivo (b. 1926)

        Andante sostenuto

        Allegro

        Duration = 13:30

  • Instrumentalists and Singers

    List the names and instruments or voice types of other instrumentalists and singers who will be performing in your recital.
  • Translations

    Please ensure that each song is in the same order in both boxes.
  • Example:

    Gretchen am Spinnrade         Gretchen at the spinning -wheel 

    Meine Ruh’ ist hin,                    My peace is gone 

    Mein Herz ist schwer,               My heart is heavy;

    Ich finde sie nimmer                  I shall never 

    Und nimmermehr.                      Ever find peace again.

    Wo ich ihn nicht hab’                 When he’s not with me, 

    Ist mir das Grab,                        Life’s like the grave;

    Die ganze Welt                           The whole world 

  • Programme Notes

  • References

  • All sources must be properly cited using bibliography standards.

    Please see examples below for using Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, 7th edition.


    Citation for a Book:

    Turabian, Kate L., A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: 

    Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, 7th edition. Revised by Wayne C. Booth, 

    Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press Editorial 

    Staff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.


    Citation for an Article from a Journal:

    McLaurin, Donald. “Karel Husa’s Contribution to the Wind Band,” CBDNA Journal 4 

    (Summer 1987): 28-29.


    Citation for a Dissertation:

    Nix, Jamie. “Steven Bryant’s Ecstatic Waters for Wind Ensemble and Electronics: 

    Compositional and Performance Perspectives for Conductors.” DMA diss., University of 

    Miami, 2010.


    Citation for a Dissertation accessed Online:

    Holliday, Guy M. “Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Wind Ensemble: Musical analysis and 

    considerations for conductors.” DMA diss., Claremont Graduate University, 2013. In 

    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses,

    http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.calbaptist.

    edu/pqdtft/docview/1352757564/142E9B06E003197BEC6/1?accountid=9830

    (accessed January 11, 2014).


    Citation for a Website:

    Bryant, Steven. “Symphonic Works.” Steven Bryant, http://www.stevenbryant.com/

    symphonic.php (accessed January 11, 2014).

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