<p>So I posted about this earlier but included information that belonged in theatre/drama so I decided to split it up, Though i'm unsure how to delete my previous one.</p>
<p>So for my Fredonia audition there will be an aural and notational skills test. This is the only school i'm auditioning for that has this in their audition and I wanted to know if anyone had information on it. I'm not very skilled in that department, I'm working on it but i'm very beginner. Does anyone know whats involved in it and how much it weighs on my acceptance? Is it more for placement upon entering or if I do badly will they choose not to accept me?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any information on this?</p>
<p>I just remember that my D had to sit in a computer room and take a multiple choice test. You left when you finished! I think she had an hour. Fredonia was the one nightmare audition; she had the one pianist who had never even heard of her song, and messed it up bigtime. I could hear through the door. As my D was much less experienced then than she is now, she freaked and had a horrible singing audition which threw off all else. She couldn’t get out of Fredonia fast enough. But my hubby and I loved the school and were impressed with the professor who spoke with families and answered questions!</p>
<p>As a comment on something in post #3 (I realize it is not the original topic), an audition accompanist usually will not have heard of every song sung at an audition and doesn’t need to. A good accompanist is excellent at sight reading music. My daughter is accompanying for MT auditions for a professional theater in NYC next week as a job, for example, and I am sure there will be some songs sung that she doesn’t know, even though she has very broad knowledge of the MT canon. But the key is to be very good at sight reading. </p>
<p>As far as the OP’s question, I honestly don’t know if that part of the audition day weighs as part of the admissions decision and if so, how much. At some schools, that may be just for placement purposes. I would ask directly at the school. You don’t even have to give you name to ask such a question.</p>
<p>For those who are not about to audition immediately and are reading this, it is very important if you want to go into the field of MT, to have some Music Theory under your belt, be able to read music, and ideally be able to play piano. Even if this is not part of the actual admissions process, these are skills necessary to succeed in this field. Never too soon to begin!</p>
<p>soozievt, as I remember back 4 years ago (ACK!) the weather was horrific and one of the accompanists had gotten stuck somewhere and so they used someone ffrom the music ed program who had taught for many years (I am not sure if it was instrumental or vocal)but classical was her forte. It was her first audition experience and my D sang Popular, of which she had never heard! It was somethin else! And my D had had a CD with her that they didn’t let her use. I think everyone has ONE OF THOSE auditions once!</p>
<p>Yikes, that is too bad. Being an accompanist for MT auditions is really a different sort of thing that classical piano playing (though classical piano is in my D’s background…sorta how ballet is in the background of any good dancer of any style).</p>
<p>[this post is in response to the one below but the post order is messed up technically]</p>
<p>For some reason, the posting order is messed up (this has happened on CC before) and my post #5 was in response to snoggie’s post which is now #6. Oy.</p>
<p>Ha! It must be a program “of a certaiin age”, because my mind gets mixed up just like that!!! :)</p>