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All audition information for the 2020 NJ Elementary and Junior High All State Choir Festival will be posted on this page. Below is the basic information about what will need to be prepared. As the due date gets closer, there will be explanations about how to upload your audition information onto this website.

Audition Timing:

All materials are due by Saturday, January 11, 2020

Ensembles:

Elementary Honors Choir – Grades 4-6

Junior High Honors Choir – Grades 7-9

Materials Needed for Audition:

One mp3 recording for each student that contains the two vocalise/scales and the solo. Please note that a director can only submit 16 auditions per school/organization for each ensemble.

One Student Form filled out (on this website) for each student which includes basic information such as:

  • Student’s name, grade, and voice part
  • Parent’s name, phone, and email

One Director Form filled out (on this website) which includes basic information such as:

  • Personal information – name, address, phone, email, etc.
  • School information – name and address
  • Your NAfME or ACDA membership cards that will need to be scanned and uploaded onto this site

There is an audition fee of $8.00 per student. Directors are to mail one check made out to “NJMEA” for the combination of all of the student audition fees to the appropriate manager. For example if a director has 4 students auditioning for Elementary, they would write out one check to NJMEA for $32.00. If you have 4 students auditioning for Elementary and 4 students auditioning for Junior High you would write out one check to NJMEA for $64.00.  Please print and include this All State Check Form with the mailed in check.

Once accepted, students will need to pay $25.00 for an application fee.

Music Information:

Each student is required to record two vocalise/scales and a recording of the solo, which this year will be the beginning of “Loch Lomond”.  The student may be given the starting pitch, but each section of the audition should be sung unaccompanied.  There MUST be at least a one second pause between the starting pitch and singing.  Overlapping the starting pitch with the voice will result in a disqualified audition.

They should use the following script when creating their audition recording:

  • “Hello, my name is_____, I am in the ____ grade and I am auditioning for the voice part of ______. “
  • My starting pitch for my first vocalise/scale is ______.”(*Give pitch*) (*One second pause*)(SING FIRST VOCALISE/SCALE)
  • My starting pitch for my second vocalise/scale is _________.”(*Give pitch*) (*One second pause*)(SING SECOND VOCALISE/SCALE)
  • My starting pitch for “Loch Lomond” is ______.”(*Give pitch*) (*One second pause*)(SING Loch Lomond)
Each section of the audition may be recorded separately and combined into a single track on a software program such as Garageband.  However, an individual section must be recorded in a single take (For example: The first vocalise cannot have an edited portion within the singing segment.  However, vocalise 1 and vocalise 2 can be recorded separately.)  Evidence of splicing or audio enhancement effects in the middle of a single singing section will result in disqualification.

Below are the starting pitches for each voice part. C4=Middle C
Elementary Honor Choir Starting Pitches (5 Note Vocalise, PDF attached below)

Vocalise Treble I

  • E above middle C
  • C5 (one octave above middle C)

Vocalise Treble II

  • D above middle C
  • B above middle C

Vocalise Treble III

  • Middle C
  • Bb above middle C

Solo: Loch Lomond

Part I: Starting Pitch = E flat above middle C

Part II: Starting Pitch = Middle C

Part III: Starting Pitch = B flat below Middle C

Junior High Honor Choir Starting Pitches (Complete Major Scale on an “ah” vowel, PDF attached below)

Scales for Soprano I

  • E above middle C
  • A above middle C

Scales for Soprano II

  • D above middle C
  • G above middle C

Scales for Alto

  • A below middle C
  • E above middle C

Scales for Tenor

  • E below middle C (may be sung descending first)
  • G below middle C

Scales for Bass I

  • B a 9th below middle C (may be sung descending first)
  • D below middle C

Scales for Bass II

  • G 11th below middle C (may be sung descending first)
  • C an octave below middle C

Solo: Loch Lomond

  • Soprano 1 – Starting Pitch = F above middle C
  • Soprano 2 -Starting Pitch = E flat above middle C
  • Alto – Starting Pitch = B flat below Middle C
  • Tenor  – Starting Pitch = E flat below middle C
  • Bass 1 – Starting Pitch = B flat below C3
  • Bass 2 – Starting Pitch = G2

Sound Files and Notation of Music

Elementary Honor Choir

Vocalise  (Transpose as directed)

Treble I

Treble II

Treble III

Junior High Choir

Vocalise  (Transpose as directed)

Vocalise for Junior High 2020

Soprano I

Soprano II

Alto

Tenor

Bass I

Bass II

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