Jenkins, Mark - Euphonium Excerpts for Band

Of all the instruments in the concert band, the euphonium plays one of the most diverse and challenging roles.  In addition to being an occasional solo voice charged with playing countermelodies or solo lines, the euphonium is also frequently used as somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades – doubling different instruments, augmenting timbres, and filling out various musical textures. These range from the standard low brass section playing, to the delicate doubling of woodwinds.  Regardless of the role assigned in any given piece of music composers and arrangers have throughout the last century required euphoniumists to be extremely versatile in terms of technique and style.   It’s this versatility that audition panels look for in selecting candidates for employment with any professional concert band. In preparing excerpts for an audition, a player should begin by asking a basic question: Is this passage soloistic or is it sectional?  Or, to put it another way: Is the euphonium the primary