What to Expect at Your Allegro Choir Audition
Allegro Choir (ages 10-13) Intermediate
Level
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- Sing My Country ’Tis of Thee (America)
- Sing Jubilate Deo in Latin
Pronunciation: yoo-bee-lah-teh deh-oh, ah-leh-loo-yah
Sing and repeat "alleluia" from the way it appears in the song
while director sings the whole song. This is called an ostinato.
- Pitch Matching:
- Director plays 3 note pitch patterns in key of D, F, and G (mostly
pentatonic and diatonic patterns and simple triads within I, IV, V chord
structure).
- Child sings them back on loo or la
- This tests tonal memory and pitch accuracy.
- Child may be asked to read a simple rhythm consisting of quarter notes,
eighth notes, rests, dotted notes, and sixteenth notes (groups of 4 only).
- If the child has no previous experience, the director may clap a pattern
to be repeated by the singer, or read the patterns to the child on rhythm
syllables and child reads them back with accuracy.
- This tests rhythm reading level and beat competency.
- Child may be asked to look at three melodic patterns.
- Director will play one of the patterns and the child will point to the
pattern that he/she thought was played.
- This tests melodic contour.
- Director will play all three patterns randomly with singer pointing to
correct pattern.
- Director will ask singer to sing back each pattern as best as he/she can
- This tests tonal memory and reading ability.
- Singers can sing patterns on loo or in solfege.
- Sing a scale using solfege: do re mi fa so la ti do' within singer’s
range.
- Singers will sing a scale mid-range to lowest note and mid-range to
highest note on AH to determine singer’s range and voice
assignment. This is done with director’s assistance.
