In order to help students adequately prepare, CMASC has created the following guidelines to help directors and students understand what may be expected on the audition sight-reading.


Sightreading # 1 will contain... 
• 4-5 measures.
• major tonality (key will vary depending on voice part, see practice scripts for specifics)
• mostly stepwise motion
• skips within the I chord, with one possible skip within the V chord
• all quarter note/half-note rhythms
• at least one rest
• 1st-scale degree first note
• diatonic notes only (no chromaticism)
• 4/4 time signature

Sightreading # 2 will be similar, but will be designed to be more challenging. Here are the differences: 
• more skips than SR 1
• slightly more challenging melodic material in general
• at least one dotted quarter-note/eight-note combination and/or tie across a barline
• possible eighth-notes (overall rhythm will still be mostly quarter notes)