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2025-2026 Audition Information
2025-2026 Audition Information
What do I need to do for auditions?
What do I need to do for auditions?
For the 2025-2026 School Year all auditions will be video recorded and evaluated by a variety of music teachers from HEBISD to determine the final outcome of the new members.
IN THE AUDITION ROOM:
Students will echo and repeat variety of rhythm and body percussion exercises.
Students will echo and repeat short musical phrases on xylophones and drums.
Students will echo and match pitch vocally.
Many of these exercises have already been taught in music classes and will be lead by Ms. Rodriguez.
Ms. Rodriguez will also communicate with homeroom teachers about grades and behavior
and take each students report card grades into account.
We are a no pass no play group.
F.A.Q. about Music Club
F.A.Q. about Music Club
What is Music Club?
When does Music Club Practice?
Music Club is an Elementary Orff Ensemble where students play various xylophones, drums, and other percussive instruments. Students also have the opportunity to dance and sing should the repertoire require those skill sets.
Mondays and Wednesdays after school 3:05-4:30pm
How much money does it cost?
How do I sign up?
This year prices will look different due to the high profile field trip that our group will be attending this year in February. All information will be available in the group's contract that will be handed out during auditions.
Students must audition for music club with Ms. Rodriguez. Everyone who applies for an audition will receive a ticket for the day of their audition, and a contract. A parent/guardian must sign the ticket and contract in order for a student to attend auditions.
What is Orff?
Not a what but a WHO! Carl Orff is well know for his composition of Carmina Burana, but did you know that he was also one of the founders of an approach to teaching music to kids?
Sing - Say - Dance - Play, is the common description of the Orff-Schulwerk approach to making music. This participatory approach combines song, speech and drama, creative movement and dance, as well as instrument playing in an infinite variety of experiences. The combination of these activities engages all of the participant’s senses in the musical “moment” and is intended to free the music-making process from excessive theorizing. Such an approach takes advantage of the young child's natural instinct to experience music and movement as a whole. It also allows individuals (students and teachers) with different abilities and interests to find means of expressing themselves through music. The primary characteristic of the Orff-Schulwerk process is a progression from teacher-directed (imitative or rote) experiences to student-directed experiences (improvisation). In the Shady Oaks music room my ideal style of teaching elementary music follows the methodology of the Orff-Schulwerk approach. This is an initiative I have been working on along with other elementary music certifications since my first year of teaching.
- Ms. Rodriguez
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