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Sight-Reading Elements

To help directors and students prepare for CMASC auditions, the composition criteria for audition sight-reading has been provided below.

Both sight-reading excerpts will be...
  • 4 to 5 measures long.
  • in common time.
  • in a major key.
    • The exact key will vary by voice part, but stays constant from year to year. See our practice resources page for specifics.
  • completely diatonic.
  • beginning and ending on the tonic.
  • mostly stepwise.

Additionally, Sight-Reading #1 features...
  • skips within the I chord.
  • all quarter- and half-note rhythms.
  • at least one rest.

Meanwhile, Sight-Reading #2 includes...
  • more skips than Sight-Reading #1, including a possible skip within the V chord.
  • slightly more challenging melodic material.
  • mostly quarter-note rhythms, with possible eighth notes.
  • at least one dotted quarter note and/or a tie across a barline.


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  • All State 2022-2023
    • Acceptance Forms & Fees
    • Festival Repertoire
    • Rehearsal Tracks
    • Itinerary & Important Info
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    • Hotel Information
    • Graduate Credit
  • Audition Info
    • Audition Information
    • Audition Submission
    • Eligibility
    • Orientation
    • Audition Practice Resources
    • Selection Process
    • Sight-Reading Elements
    • 22-23 Audition Materials Access
  • Clinicians
    • 2023 CMASC Clinicians
    • Past Clinicians
  • Pictures and Programs
    • Past Programs
    • 2020 CMASC Pictures
    • 2019 CMASC Pictures
    • 2018 CMASC Pictures
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    • 2015 CMASC Pictures
    • 2014 CMASC Pictures
  • Board
    • Board Members
    • Meeting Dates
    • Meeting Minutes
    • By-Laws
    • Judging
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