All choir students at GHS are placed in the Tiger Choir, which provides students to collaborate with all students in choir. This is a great process and allows students to get to sing a variety of music that better suits a large choir. Students are then placed into one of two choirs: concert choir or chamber choir. This placement allows for students to be involved in a direct learning environment and sing music that is better suited for smaller choirs. During these two choirs, students will work on music literacy skills, vocal technique, collaboration, and rehearsal skills. By auditioning students into seperate choirs, students are able to perform a wide variety of music, have more targeted learning goals, and take leadership roles at all grade levels. The Concert Choir is our non-audition choir and is geared towards delevoping skills as singers, musicians, and leaders. The Chamber choir is a small audition choir and is determined by the skills that have already exceded proficiencey. The amount of students selected for the Chamber Choir is determined by audition scores and a limit of 4 to 8 students per voice part.

All students who will audition with the following:

• Voice Range Checks

  • Singing Do-Sol-Do up the scale on neutral syllables to check upper range

  • Singing Sol-Do-Sol down the scale on neutral syllables to check lower range

• Sight Readings

  • Melodic Reading

    • Students will be given one of six melodic sight reading examples

    • Must be sung on Solfège

    • Students have 30 seconds to look over the exercise and right in Solfège

  • Rhythmic Reading

    • Students will be given one of four rhythmic sight reading examples

    • Must be sung on Ta-Ka-Di-Mi syllables

    • Students have 30 seconds to look over the exercise and right in Ta-Ka-Di-Mi

• Tonal Recall

  • Students will be given a pattern of notes, always starting on the same tonic

    • Students may sing either on neutral syllables or Solfège

• Music Learning

  • Only required for those interested in being in the Chamber Choir

  • Students will learn a song on their own time and perform their part by themselves and while Mr. Ironside plays another part

    • This will be a song Chamber Choir will learn in the fall

  • Music will be provided in advance with practice tracks available for assistance

  • Students will sing through the example three total times

    • Once with Mr. Ironside playing along on their part

    • Once without Mr. Ironside playing any part

    • Once with Mr. Ironside playing a different part

• Other Considered Factors

  • Rehearsal skills observed throughout the year

  • Schedule (how many trimesters a student will be enrolled in choir the next year)