EAST TENNESSEE SCHOOL BAND AND ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

Dr. Jack Stamp, Blue
Ms. Paula Thornton, Red
Dr. Debra Sheldon, Green
Dr. Christian Zimbower, White

School Auditions Lists

• Only students submitted on the online registration list will be accepted, no substitutions and/or add-ons are accepted.


• Each student who auditions must be enrolled, participating, and attending daily in the representative school’s band or orchestra program at the time of the event.


• If a student is auditioning on more than one instrument. Enter their name for each instrument. Fill out the mulitiple insturment form and give to me the day of auditions.


• After you hit the submit button, you will have a screen that will prompt you to print out your results. Send a copy to me with one check, payable to ETSBOA, enclosed for the total tryout fee. Keep a copy for your records.


• We are still going to submit a hard copy with enclose payment that must be postmarked by the November 30, 2007 deadline.


• Deadline for Online submission and hard copy submission, with payment, must have a Friday, November 30, 2007 USPS postmark. Send to Steve Taylor at Farragut High School. This may mean that you have your school check cut a week ahead of time!


• No entries will be accepted after this point.


• Faxes, phone calls, or e-mails will not be accepted as entries at any point.

1. Scales will be memorized and performed on a pass/fail basis. Wind students will begin their audition in their respective scale room. A student not passing the scales portion of the audition will not be allowed to continue.
2. Students passing the scale portion of the audition will be awarded up to 200 points per judge - 20% of their total score.
3. Prepared and Sight reading will each be worth 400 points per judge for a total of a possible 2000 points.
4. 200 points - scales (20%)
   400 points - prepared (40%)
   400 points - sight reading (40%)
5. Scales will be performed in complete octaves. Time and minimum range requirements will remain the same.
6. The student’s audition ends if the scale portion is not played in the accepted time. The student must pass the scale portion of the audition to proceed to the Prepared and Sight-Reading parts of the audition. The student will have three minutes to satisfactorily complete the scale requirements. (as voted on at the fall 2005 General Meeting)
7. Scale performance will be adjudicated using the following rubric:



All State	Blue	Red	Green	White
160 - 200 points	120 - 159 points	80 - 119 points	40 - 79 points	0 - 39 points
Student performs all scales at tempo faster than the minimum requirements; student goes beyond minimum range requirements on every scale possible on their respective instrument.	Student performs the majority of their scales going beyond the minimum requirements of range and tempo.	Student meets the minimum scale requirements of range and tempo.	Student meets the minimum scale requirements with few or minor range or technical issues.	Student meets the minimum scale requirements with range or technical issues on a minority of scales, but it is evident student knows all 13 required scales.

(as voted on at the Fall 2007 Meeting)
8. Students who cannot perform all 13 required scales fail the scales portion of the audition, and may not complete the audition.
9. Tone quality may be addressed within the scope of the 40 points per descriptor.
10. Prepared music for 2008 is #2

Percussion Audition Requirements

1. Preparation of the 26 standard snare rudiment.
2. Prepared etude for all three instruments, snare, mallet, and timpani.
3. Timpani tuning.
4. Mallet scales.
5. Sight Reading for all three instruments.

String Audition Requirements

1. Scale requirements are major scales (C through 5 sharps and 5 flats) and melodic minor scales (A through 4 sharps and 4 flats). Students will demonstrate one scale at quarter note = 60 and one scale at quarter note
   = 120. Scales performed three octaves will receive a maximum of 125 points while scales performed two octaves will receive a maximum of 100 points. String scales should not be slurred and must be from memory.
2. Prepared material is Number ONE from the string rotation of music.
3. Sight Reading.

Reminders

• Directors of participating students must be paid members of the ESTBOA, TMEA, and MENC.
• Directors of participating students must be present to assist in auditions. Students who do not have a director present will be allowed to audition, but will not be considered for a position in any of the clinic groups. Please realize that in order to assist one must be present at the specified times.
• Prepared wind and percussion etudes are taken from the NEW rotation adopted from the Winter 2000 General Meeting, Set No. 2. Copies were made available on the ETSBOA web site.

Please Contact the Band Chairman if you have any questions.