# Why a repertoire list for DMA applicants? In addition to other qualifications, incoming DMA Candidates are expected, at minimum, to possess **an elite level of skill** across the primary "classical percussion" mediums such as Snare Drum, Keyboard, and Timpani. While other skills (e.g., world percussion, drum set, etc.) are crucial and welcome, the DMA program at UNLV is geared toward **Collegiate Percussion Pedagogy.** In other words, you are working to credential yourself to be a percussion professor at the university level. Thus, your abilities in the primary instruments used in university percussion education must meet a minimum proficiency to be deemed appropriate for entrance into a terminal degree program. Regardless of preference, ideology, or otherwise, college percussion pedagogy has settled in the last 80 years into the "big three" noted above. Therefore, you are expected to produce knowledge and performance among these instruments at the highest level **in order to be a competitive candidate for university percussion searches.** Our DMA program is not designed to remediate one's abilities across nearly any area of percussion. Rather, it is to challenge and refine to an extreme degree one's understanding of their own technical and artistic knowledge behind their instruments. In conjunction with extremely rigorous coursework in Pedagogy, History, Journalism, Theory, and your culminating Document, your playing *must already* be at a level that is of the highest order of magnitude. The following list illustrates the level of playing expected upon *entering* our program. ## DMA Audition Repertoire List ## Snare - coming soon... ## Keyboard - coming soon... # Timpani - coming soon...