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Member Professional Development Days are specially designed for Chorus America members. If you're not currently a member, we'd love to welcome you to this event, and into the Chorus America community! Visit our membership page to learn more about becoming a member of Chorus America, and please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions at membership@chorusamerica.org.
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*Replays with captioning will remain available for registrants to watch until November 1, 11:59pm EDT.
Registration Type | Price |
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Individual Session | $30 each |
All Four (4) Sessions | $110 |
*Replays with captioning will remain available for registrants to watch until November 1, 11:59pm EDT.
Member Professional Development Days are specially designed for Chorus America members. If you're not currently a member, we'd love to welcome you to this event, and into the Chorus America community! Visit our membership page to learn more about becoming a member of Chorus America, and please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions at membership@chorusamerica.org.
For many choral singers, sight-singing is the scariest part of an audition. But with a little practice, you can get better at it. Here are some ideas to try before your next audition.
Use an organizational system that acknowledges the hierarchy of scale degrees and the relationships between them. Solfege is an effective system because it gives each pitch an identity that makes pitch selection in sight-singing less arbitrary.
The seven syllables commonly used for this practice in English-speaking countries are: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, and Ti. In other languages, Si is used for Ti--the seventh scale tone.
You can also use number scale degrees--Do is 1, Re is 2, and on up the scale. Note that while this system defines the individual identity of pitches, it conflicts with our need to use numbers for rhythm.
If you are unfamiliar with solfege and want to develop that skill, here are some things to try:
Do-Sol-Do. This emphasizes the tonic/dominant relationship. Tonic is the first scale degree, or Do. The dominant is the fifth scale degree, or Sol.
Do-Mi-Sol-Mi-Do. The familiar tonic triad can help orient you in the key of your sight-singing excerpt.
Do-Re-Do-Ti-Do. This strengthens the "tendency tones," Re and Ti, which have a magnetic pull towards Do.
The conductor is asking you to sight-sing to gain information about your musicianship. You can demonstrate that, even before you begin to sight-sing, during your brief preparatory period. Don't be afraid to do some targeted prep work before singing the example. It will show the conductor that you have a thoughtful system of learning the music. And who doesn't want a singer like that in the choir! Here are some tips:
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All experienced singers (even those who use an organized system like solfege) sight-sing with an integrated and intuitive approach. Some of us use familiar songs to remember certain intervals. Others may draw on instrumental experience. Still others may just "wing it". These approaches can be successful. But unless you have around a 90 percent accuracy rate, the lack of a system may fail you in the higher-stress audition setting. If you are strongly opposed to an organized approach to sight-singing, at the very least know what key you're in.
Happy Singing!
See Crash Course on Music Theory on this website.