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Choice School
VOCAL MUSIC
AUDITIONS
Choice School Auditions
Parent Informational Meeting
Sunday, December 15, 2024 • 3pm
Stewarts Creek High School Theater
Parents and students are welcome to attend.
Enter through the North/Gym entrance.
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Student Audition Workshops
Monday, December 16, 2024 • 6-8pm
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 • 6-8pm
Stewarts Creek High School Theater
Parents and students are welcome to attend, or parents can drop off students and pick them up at conclusion.
Enter through the North/Gym entrance.
Instrumental students should bring instruments.
Theater students should wear comfortable clothing appropriate to move.
All students should bring notebook with paper and pencil.
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Students can apply/audition for a Choice School seat even if they cannot attend an Audition Workshop.
Students do not have to attend both Workshops; the same material will be presented at both.
However, attending both Workshops is recommended if possible.
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Audition Dates
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Stewarts Creek High School
Parents and students are welcome to attend, or parents can drop off students and pick them up at conclusion.
Enter through the North/Gym entrance.
Instrumental and Vocal students should wear audition-appropriate clothing (no jeans, no sneakers).
Theater students should arrive in comfy clothing for a dance audition, then bring a change of clothing for their performance audition.
Students will sign up for an individual audition time.
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SIGN UP FOR YOUR VOCAL MUSIC AUDITION TIME HERE
VOCAL MUSIC
The Vocal Music audition is an in-person audition that consists of four different elements:
Prepared Solo
Vocalise
Sightreading
Pitch Memory
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PREPARED SOLO (35% of score)
All students will sing Insert Title Here individually as a solo.
Choose your voice part below to hear a recording (with voice and with accompaniment only) in the key you will sing at your audition. Students can choose any voice part for your audition - this does not mean you will remain on that voice part in high school (choir directors hold voice placement interviews regularly throughout the school year).
Students can learn the piece with the Voice Recording, but will audition with the Accompaniment Only recording.
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Soprano
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Alto
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Tenor
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Bass
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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VOCALISE (35% of score)
All students will sing a vocalise that consists of
An ascending major scale
A descending major scale
Choose your voice part below to hear a recording (with voice and with accompaniment only) in the key you will sing at your audition. Students can choose any voice part for your audition - this does not mean you will remain on that voice part in high school (choir directors hold voice placement interviews regularly throughout the school year).
Students can learn the vocalise with the Voice Recording, but will audition with the Accompaniment Only recording.
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Soprano
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Alto
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Tenor
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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Bass
Sheet Music
Recording - Vocal Model
Recording - Accompaniment Only
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SIGHTREADING (10% of score)
All students will sightread two short examples - one rhythm and one melodic.
The rhythm excerpt will be in 4/4 and will contain
whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, dotted half and dotted quarter notes, and eighth notes
half rests, quarter rests, dotted half and dotted quarter rests
Practice "Rhythm Only" LEVEL 2 at SightReadingFactory.com to prepare
The melodic excerpt will be in 4/4 and will contain
whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, dotted half notes
quarter rests
in the key of C Major, G Major, or F Major
Stepwise only
Practice "Voice Family" LEVEL 1 at SightReadingFactory.com to prepare
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Not a strong music reader? That's ok! We'll help you prepare at our Audition Workshops and we'll teach you all about music reading when you get to high school! (plus, the sightreading is only 10% of your audition score)
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PITCH MEMORY (20% of score)
At the conclusion of your audition, all students will complete a Pitch Memory exercise, which consists of echoing back basic patterns you hear; a teacher will play a few notes on the piano and you sing them back on 'nah.'
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There is really no way to prepare for this portion of the audition. This 60-second exercise is designed to assess how your brain already hears musical patterns.
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