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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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Audition Submission
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Orientation
Audition Practice Resources
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Sight-Reading Elements
23-24 Audition Materials Access
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