ARKANSAS SOUTH REGION ORCHESTRA JUNIOR HIGH STRING AUDITION MATERIALS ~ SET II (2018) There are two junior high erforming grous at the South Region Orchestra Clinic. The to layers in each section according to rank earn a seat in the Concert Orchestra, and the second highest grou of layers is invited to join the String Orchestra. CONCERT ORCHESTRA: This first-tier grou utilizes 16 Violin I, 16 Violin II, 10 Viola, 10 Cello, and Basses TBD, as well as a full comlement of winds, brass, and ercussion for a full symhonic orchestral exerience. The difficulty of the music is tyically what students might encounter in their third year of laying. STRING ORCHESTRA: This second-tier grou uses the same number of string layers er section as the Concert Orchestra but is a string-only ensemble. The difficulty of the music is tyically what students might encounter in their second year of laying. **REMINDER: Individual String alicants must be registered members of ASBOA BEFORE they will be ermitted to articiate in any ASBOA-sanctioned event. For more information on this, see the document titled Information for Individual String Alicants, also located on the ASBOA website. AUDITION MATERIAL: All rinted fingerings and bowings are required. All instruments have the first two ieces listed in common. The third iece is a solo or orchestral excert secific for that instrument. SET II (2018) 1) An Evening Song 2) Peretual Motion 3) Violin: Mozart: Symhony No. 40 in G Minor 1 st Mvt. Viola: Borodin: Polovetzian Dances Cello/Bass: Berlioz: March to the Scaffold from Symhonie Fantastique SCALES Required scales are those with key signatures three shars through three flats. All scales are to be layed as detaché (smooth and connected) quarter notes at 80 beats er minute with the to note reeated, NO VIBRATO, and only in the octave(s) designated on the scale sheet. Only one major scale and one minor scale will be chosen from the following list: o Major Scales TWO octaves: A, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb o NATURAL Minor Scales ONE octave: f#, b, e, a, d, g, c SIGHTREADING All students will be required to sightread as art of their audition. Students will have 20 seconds to look over the sightreading material, during which they may not make any sound on their instruments. At the conclusion of the 20 seconds, the judge will ask the student to lay the excert. Students are only allowed one attemt at the sightreading material. For more information about audition rocedures or the South Region Orchestra Clinic, lease reference the aroriate documents osted on the ASBOA website, www.asboa.org.
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