I would say, borrow the actual books from your teacher, making sure that you give clear copies marked with anything specific you add in (ie ritards, or specific tempo markings) to the accompanist. I know I didn't get any practice time with the accompanist, so make sure you tell him anything specific you want beforehand.
As for music, I agree, no musical theater. At all. I found that picking two english songs, and two foreign language songs work very nicely. Also, be prepared to do sightsinging, it's not too bad.=D
Hello, I also had my audition last year in late January.
I agree with the two previous commenters about your music selections; two English arts songs and 2 foreign language songs is the standard. I had 3 foreign language songs (two German lieder and one Italian from 24 Italian Songs & Arias) and one English piece. Unless you're auditioning for the BM-Musical Theatre degree.
Most likely, you will not get to rehearse with your accompanist, so have any music markings written in, and make sure your accompanist knows where they are beforehand.
I didn't bring the real copies of the music, but if you have books, that's fine. As long as you have music.
Okay...absolutely no musical theatre and opera. You will be crucified for singing opera, bc honestly, no one in highschool should even be studying that. (I got butchered for that during my audition, along with about 50 others in my class). Bring copies of your music, not the actual books (who wants the disaster of the pianist not being able to properly play your music bc the book is falling off of the piano, or closing up and such.) Just copy the music from the book, make very clear markings on the copies for your pianist, and the best thing to do honestly is to put them in a binder, with your chosen piece first and tabs with the titles on the rest of the music so the accompanist can easily find the peices the faculty may choose, inside clear page protectors (helps for easy page turning). As the others said above, definately two english, two foreign languages. Also, I'm pretty sure that you are supposed to have some sort of headshot. I know that I had to bring one, and they keep it in my permanent folder. Nothing fancy though,
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I should have specified that I'm a transfer student, and I've had experience singing arias. Actually, a dear friend is a voice minor at UF (I know, I know) and she knows my voice well and we were picking peices and SHE told me I should sing my strongest peices I was most comfortable with. Which means one of my Mozart arias (Voi Che Sapete, which every soprano and her mother has probably sung), a German leider I sang during a recital a few semesters ago that did smashingly well, a French folk song (one of Weckerlin's Bergerettes, about half of which I've sung in the last few years of lessons. NO ONE here has heard them.), and something in English. I don't do a lot of Enlish peices, because I enjoy singing languages and my teacher seems to think I can handle it. Which I can, which is good
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I would say, borrow the actual books from your teacher, making sure that you give clear copies marked with anything specific you add in (ie ritards, or specific tempo markings) to the accompanist. I know I didn't get any practice time with the accompanist, so make sure you tell him anything specific you want beforehand.
As for music, I agree, no musical theater. At all. I found that picking two english songs, and two foreign language songs work very nicely. Also, be prepared to do sightsinging, it's not too bad.=D
Good luck, and hope I could be of help!
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I agree with the two previous commenters about your music selections; two English arts songs and 2 foreign language songs is the standard. I had 3 foreign language songs (two German lieder and one Italian from 24 Italian Songs & Arias) and one English piece. Unless you're auditioning for the BM-Musical Theatre degree.
Most likely, you will not get to rehearse with your accompanist, so have any music markings written in, and make sure your accompanist knows where they are beforehand.
I didn't bring the real copies of the music, but if you have books, that's fine. As long as you have music.
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