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Bethany College offers performance awards for students participating in music.
You don’t have to be a music major to receive a music performance award! Please fill out a Music Questionnaire to get the process started.
In general, performance award winners are required to:
•participate in a large ensemble (band, concert choir, chapel choir, orchestra)
•take private lessons in that performance area.
•Pianists have another option as well (see piano).
For a summary of requirements for the different performance areas - see below.
Voice
Instrumental
String
Woodwind / Brass
Percussion
Keyboard
Organ
Piano
Vocal Audition Requirements:
• Please prepare two selections that are “classical” in nature—similar to what one would
prepare for district or state solo contest.
• They should be contrasting in character (one slow, one fast, etc.).
• Having one in a foreign language is preferred but not required.
• Memorization is strongly recommended.
• You may bring your own accompanist, or one can be provided for you if we receive the
music two weeks in advance.
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Strings Audition Requirements:
• All major scales
• Solo or etude (accompanied or unaccompanied)
It is best if the student performs an etude which demonstrates the student's abilities in a variety of styles: excerpts from orchestral or chamber literature.
Wind Instrument Audition Requirements:
• Chromatic scale
• Any two of the following:
1) Solo (either with or without accompaniment)
2) Etude
3) Excerpts from band/orchestra literature
4) Excerpts from small ensemble literature
* No sight reading required
Percussion Audition Requirements:
• Prefer audition to include two or more instruments (snare, timpani, mallets, set)
• Snare
1) Solo
2) One/two etudes
• Timpani
1) Solo
2) One/two etudes
OR
3) Excerpts from band/orchestra literature
• Mallets
1) Solo
2) One/two etudes
OR
3) Excerpts from band/orchestra literature
• Set
1) Examples of patterns (sixteen bars) in various styles (swing, salsa, rock, funk)
2) Examples of fills within above patterns (one, two, three and four count fills)
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Organ Audition Requirements:
• Please prepare the following:
1) Two selections from the standard organ repertoire. These selections should vary in character (one that demonstrates technical facility, one slow and melodic). Examples include one of the Eight Little Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach, a prelude and fugue by Dietrich Buxtehude, a trio by Josef Rheinberger, to name a few.
2) You will be asked to sight read a hymn using manuals and pedal.
• Placement will be based on the quality of your performance at the audition.
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Piano Audition Requirements:
• To audition on piano please prepare two selections:
1) One memorized solo from the standard repertoire;(meaning piano selections that have stood the test of time, from composers such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Bartok, Debussy, Prokofiev, etc. This excludes method teaching pieces or pop arrangements).
2) Another solo selection (memory encouraged). This can be a contrasting selection from the standard repertoire (preferred). This is a chance to show your versatility as a performer, so most any selection is appropriate, such as a hymn transcription, pop or jazz arrangement, etc.
• Your audition rating is determined by your performance of the above two solos.
• More information will likely be sought on your involvement on piano at school, or at church.
• As a way to further support your rating, you will likely be asked to sight read and play some scales.
Students receiving performance awards for piano are required to:
1) Enroll in private lessons
2) EITHER
a. Participate in a large ensemble (band, concert choir, chapel choir, orchestra)
OR
b. Accompany students in private lessons, usually four students a semester.
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