<p>Hey! So, I was thinking of submitting a music supplement, but was puzzled as to what I should include. I'm submitting things for flute, saxophone, and composition, and know that they only want two submissions of each. </p>
<p>I was wondering, though, would it be best to submit one slow piece and one fast piece? My dilemma comes from the fact that I already have a fast, technical piece down very well (specifically, Ibert's Concerto pour Flûte et Orchestre) and I wanted to submit the Mozart concerto, but I didn't want to overload my submission with too many technical pieces. Advice?</p>
<p>I'd say go with your original fast one, then pick an expressive or 20th century piece probably in the opposite (either major or minor) of the first piece. I'm not submitting for Yale, but for my other school I am submitting a sonatina (major) and a piece by mendellsohn(minor) as well as a contemporary persian piece.</p>
<p>are you applying EA or no? The reason is that admissions officers often say that they have the time to listen to the supplement in depth, and send it to the correct music professor, etc in early, and in RD, they occasionally just have to give it a quick listen and make a judgement. Its not that one's better, its the tradeoff of what will have a good stunning jaw dropping effect on the first time listen to, or what will excel in a analysis by more than a adcom. </p>
<p>I mean, or you can just ask your music teacher for advice.</p>
<p>oh. well, I guess its just a whatever feels best thing then, my music teacher theorizes that it is best to, like in essays, pick a piece that starts very strongly. But then again, Im a jazz trombonist, so take what i say with a grain of salt.</p>
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<p>This is not true of Yale (and several other highly selective colleges). Admissions officers do not listen to your supplement at all. Assuming your application gets past the first hurdle with respect to grades, curriculum, and scores, the admissions office will send your supplement on to the appropriate department for review and ranking. That is the case whether you apply SCEA or RD.</p>
<p>What I'm doing (at the request of my music teacher) is sending in a selection of pieces on my CD and then noting which ones are "officially" part of my supplement. That way, they can listen to my two pieces (which are only somewhat contrasting) and if they really want to see breadth, they can also listen to a Bach elsewhere on the CD.</p>