2024-2025 Junior Festival Vocal Audition Information
Solo:
"Dona nobis pacem" is sung as a round with the recording. Choose the key that best suits your singer. The singer enters at measure 9 and sings the round TWICE through.
Sight Reading:
The sight reading excerpt will meet these criteria:
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It will be in a comfortable range for each voice part.
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It will be in a major key, in 4/4 time.
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It will begin and end on the tonic.
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It will consist almost entirely of scalar motion; any leaps will be to the tonic.
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Rhythms may include whole, half, quarter and eighth notes.
Here are examples of comparable difficulty.
All methods of sight singing are acceptable (solfege, numbers, neutral syllables, etc.).
Scales:
Singers will be asked to sing a major scale (quarter notes, 100 BPM, ascending and descending) in the following keys:
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Soprano: F
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Alto: C
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Low Voice: E
If you have any other questions, contact Margaret Wall at mwall@hwrsd.org.