For a comprehensive list of the most commonly requested extracts with measure numbers, and instructions on how to practice them, I recommend Orchestral Excerpts for Flute by Jeanne Baxtresser [Theodore Presser Company] and Orchestral Techniques for Flute and Piccolo: An Audition Guide and an Inside Look at Symphonic Performance Traditions by Walfrid Kujala [Progress Press].
The following is a short list of frequently asked principal flute orchestral excerpts that I encourage my students to practice and memorize:
| Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3 | flute part | score | |
| Beethoven: Symphony No.3 | flute part | score | |
| Bizet: Carmen - Entr'acte | flute part | score | |
| Brahms: Symphony No.1 | flute part | score | |
| Brahms: Symphony No.4 | flute part | score | |
| Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | flute part | score | |
| Dvořák: Symphony No.8 | flute part | score | |
| Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis | flute part | score | |
| Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream | flute part | score | article |
| Prokofiev: Classical Symphony | flute part | score | article |
| Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf | flute part | score | |
| Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé | flute part | score | |
| Rossini: William Tell Overture | flute part | score | |
| Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - Volière | flute part | score | article |
| Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version) | score | ||
| Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks | flute part | score |