Click the link below to access practice tracks for the 2020-2022 All-State Choir music!!!
Important Information:
To check for rehearsal notes to mark your music, go to www.tmea.org/divisions-regions/vocal/audition-material
To listen to recordings of all the music, go to this youtube playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spwq6JDS9-g&list=PLKJrr5AVj_QGecd85_ndOCYV5sg87aCaK
Here are some audition details
Pre-Area and Area Sight Reading Criteria
To check for rehearsal notes to mark your music, go to www.tmea.org/divisions-regions/vocal/audition-material
To listen to recordings of all the music, go to this youtube playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spwq6JDS9-g&list=PLKJrr5AVj_QGecd85_ndOCYV5sg87aCaK
Here are some audition details
- There are four rounds of auditions: District on September 18th (we are hosting this at our school!!!), Region on October 16th (this is during our Fall Break), Pre-Area on December 2nd (unlike the other auditions, this is on a Thursday evening), and Area on January 8th.
- All auditions will be live (no pre-recorded stuff this year). You will sing in front of a curtain for five judges... like the good ol' days.
- Pre-Area and Area rounds of auditions will have Sight-Reading (see information below).
- You will only sing certain parts of each song for auditions (we call those parts cuts). You will learn the cuts the morning of your auditions.
- Beautiful, musical, and completely accurate singing is CRUCIAL. The top ranked singers in each room are the singers that not only sing correct pitches, rhythms, and words, but sing all of their cuts with musical and smart nuance.
Pre-Area and Area Sight Reading Criteria
- The sightreading audition shall be 20% of your total score - the other 80% is your cuts.
- The sightreading exercise will be written in one of the following key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, F, B-flat, E-flat or A-flat. There will be no modulations (key changes) or altered tones (like 'fi' or 'te').
- The sightreading exercise will be written in one of the following meter signatures: 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4, and approximately 8 measures in length.
- The sightreading exercise may include the following rhythmic devices: half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, sixteenth notes, quarter rests, eighth rests, and simple syncopation.
- The sightreading exercise will include a minimum of 30 notes.