General Information
The Concert Choir features primarily Juniors and Seniors, and is an auditioned ensemble. The Concert has traveled to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Nashville, and Memphis. The Concert Choir features literature ranging from Renaissance to Modern and Multicultural works. The Concert Choir features a rigorous rehearsal and performance schedule, featuring studies in music theory, ear training, the biology of singing, and rehearsal technique.
Link to the Concert Choir Blog
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ILMEA Audition Info
Each Fall, around Columbus day, ILMEA (Illinois Music Educator's Association) has auditions for its district (and subsequently All-State and All-State Honors) choir. To audition, you have to sing short excerpts from two prepared selections, scales and triads, and sight singing. Each school in district 1 is permitted to have 4 students per section (S1, S2, A1, A2, T1, T2, B1, B2) audition.
Below are linked practice recordings for the scales and triads. The recordings give four "clicks" on the starting note, then play the scale or triad. They proceed as major scale, natural minor scale, harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale, major triad, augmented triad, minor triad, diminished triad. There is also a pdf linked below for how to use solfege for each of these.
For more information about the auditions, please click here.
The scales and tracks for The Ground and Mungi Ni Pendo are below. For Ezekiel and Muusika click here.
Mungi Ni Pendo- arr. Robert Gower
**please have students learn the following when it divides into 3 parts **
Treble Clef - S1 top, S2 middle, A1&2 bottom
Bass Clef - T1&2 top, B1 middle, B2 bottom
SSA- I Will Be Earth- Gwyneth Walker (m74 divisi standard 4 part, m81-85 as indicated, m86 alto 1 on E, alto 2 on F#)
Below are linked practice recordings for the scales and triads. The recordings give four "clicks" on the starting note, then play the scale or triad. They proceed as major scale, natural minor scale, harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale, major triad, augmented triad, minor triad, diminished triad. There is also a pdf linked below for how to use solfege for each of these.
For more information about the auditions, please click here.
The scales and tracks for The Ground and Mungi Ni Pendo are below. For Ezekiel and Muusika click here.
Mungi Ni Pendo- arr. Robert Gower
**please have students learn the following when it divides into 3 parts **
Treble Clef - S1 top, S2 middle, A1&2 bottom
Bass Clef - T1&2 top, B1 middle, B2 bottom
SSA- I Will Be Earth- Gwyneth Walker (m74 divisi standard 4 part, m81-85 as indicated, m86 alto 1 on E, alto 2 on F#)
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