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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:39 pm
Well, not yet, but sometime towards the end of the school year, I will be auditioning for the fine arts academy for choir in the school I am moving to.
Here's the audition process:
1. Prepare and perform a memorized vocal solo with piano accompaniment. Students need to provide their own accompanist. No cassettes or recorded accompaniment will be allowed. Standard contest literature is desired. Pop or show tunes are not acceptable. Bring three copies of the solo for the selection committee with numbered measures.
2. Sight-sing a short excerpt provided by the selection committee at the audition.
3. Sing one tonal memory pattern provided at the audition.
I don't even know if I can sight sing.. I haven't really tried it before..
and what's a tonal memory pattern?!? 0.o;; I'm so lost!!
I'm totally stressing over it too, 'cause I gotta write an essay and everything and it's like a smaller version of collage or something >.<
but I'm only a sophomore in high school!!
eeeps... >.< help?
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:21 pm
that audition process sounds similar to the audition i had to do for the highschool show choir i am in right now (except you dont have to dance and the song selection is different) tonal memory pattern is (i think) when they play a short pattern of notes and then you have to sing they notes while they are playing some harmonies and such. I think it helps them determin if you can sing your part while other parts are being sung.
as for the sight singing. that just takes practice. try finding some vocal pieces you have never heard of, play the first note on the piano, then attempt to sing the notes. then afterwards play the notes on the piano to see how close you are to the actual notes.
just practice and you'll probably do fine. i know it's hard when you have never really sight read before cuz thats what i had to do last year. (i am now a freshman in highschool)
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:02 pm
dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now..
Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:44 pm
Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. ok. good luck!
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:18 pm
yeah thats basically what you have to do to be involved in the choral system of my school at all. Some people slip through the cracks on lower level ensembles if they can't but we have to teach ourselfs a part in an SATB piece without any outside help, and then perform that part combined with the one person form the three other vocal parts, and seperatly, as well as sight sing a bit of a piece ( last years audition piece was in latin btw 0.o)
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:25 pm
Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. thats one of few things I love about my school. The fine arts wing has 8 rehersal rooms with pianos ^^
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:56 pm
LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. thats one of few things I love about my school. The fine arts wing has 8 rehersal rooms with pianos ^^ lucky >.< my school gets nothing for fine arts. In fact, they're considering cutting fine arts alltogether. (Which is one reason why I'm not moping around about moving)
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:59 pm
Minnie.Mousie. LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. thats one of few things I love about my school. The fine arts wing has 8 rehersal rooms with pianos ^^ lucky >.< my school gets nothing for fine arts. In fact, they're considering cutting fine arts alltogether. (Which is one reason why I'm not moping around about moving) The only reason we have that stuff is because the fine arts kids fundraise like mad honestly. My school district is in the lowest funding bracket in the state of michigan and most of the extra-curric. funding goes to sports crying
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:06 pm
LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. thats one of few things I love about my school. The fine arts wing has 8 rehersal rooms with pianos ^^ lucky >.< my school gets nothing for fine arts. In fact, they're considering cutting fine arts alltogether. (Which is one reason why I'm not moping around about moving) The only reason we have that stuff is because the fine arts kids fundraise like mad honestly. My school district is in the lowest funding bracket in the state of michigan and most of the extra-curric. funding goes to sports crying DARN YOU SPORTS!!! *shakes fist* DARN YOU TO NEBRASKA!! Any fine arts kids from nebraska, I suggest you move. ANYWAY... I love my chorus. *sob* I don't want to move away from them!
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:11 pm
Minnie.Mousie. LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. LiannaMythre Minnie.Mousie. dangit.. >.< I need to get a hold of a piano somehow now.. Oh well. I'll probably ask my choir teacher for help after school on tuesday. She's awesome like that. thats one of few things I love about my school. The fine arts wing has 8 rehersal rooms with pianos ^^ lucky >.< my school gets nothing for fine arts. In fact, they're considering cutting fine arts alltogether. (Which is one reason why I'm not moping around about moving) The only reason we have that stuff is because the fine arts kids fundraise like mad honestly. My school district is in the lowest funding bracket in the state of michigan and most of the extra-curric. funding goes to sports crying DARN YOU SPORTS!!! *shakes fist* DARN YOU TO NEBRASKA!! Any fine arts kids from nebraska, I suggest you move. ANYWAY... I love my chorus. *sob* I don't want to move away from them! I loved the group I was in last year at the middle school here, but I can't wait until semester auditions so I can try to get in one of the upper level emsembles from where I am now. There are so many people in my ensemble now that are there to be there not to work for it, and it's kinda sad I can say my middle school ensemble compleatly dominated my highschool one.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:14 pm
that is kinda sad.. confused I wasn't in chorus in middle school, so I can't say much about that.
in fact, I barely sang any before the mistake in my schedule made me take chorus. now I lurveh it!! :p
I think the administration is psychic 0.o;;
but then again, no I don't, 'cause then they wouldn't cut fine arts.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:17 pm
My old group had alot more way dedicated people. sweatdrop Everyone cried at the end of the year when we had to leave ( including our director who said he was seriously questioning continuing to work there without us). It was like leaving a family for some people. crying
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:24 pm
LiannaMythre My old group had alot more way dedicated people. sweatdrop Everyone cried at the end of the year when we had to leave ( including our director who said he was seriously questioning continuing to work there without us). It was like leaving a family for some people. crying I know what you mean. The other chorus' aren't that tight, but the honors ensemble is so close with each other, it's kinda scary :p
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:27 pm
Thats part of why I love choir. It's great when an ensemble gets really tight.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:30 pm
LiannaMythre Thats part of why I love choir. It's great when an ensemble gets really tight. it's really great when you hear the crowd applauding like crazy... and when more people attend the choir performance than the basketball game that night.
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