Vocal Overview

Vocal Students with their notes

Vocal students will learn to sing using healthy vocal technique for the young adult voice. This is a performance class and students will be expected to sing alone for the instructor and the class, and with others in small and large ensembles. The vocal literature performed will be comprised of folk songs, musical theater songs, jazz standards, classical songs, and contemporary or self-composed songs. Music notation, diction, choral technique and sight-singing will be studied and practiced.

  • Vocal technique: introduction to the vocal mechanism; posture; breathing; vowel and consonant production; vocal flexibility.

  • Music reading/functional harmony/beginning song writing.

  • Performance: solo and small/large ensembles.

Vocal students will explore the ways music enriches our lives. Through listening, performing, researching, and creating, students will investigate the many ways humans express themselves through the language of music. Students will be exposed to a wealth of information regarding the fundamentals of music, how music is created, various genres of music and the relationship of music to other cultures and curricular areas.

Vocal Donation Requests

  • Sheet Music fund - money to purchase sheet music licenses.

Vocal Audition Information

Application

Complete the online application before the deadline. The current application link will be posted early in the calendar year for the upcoming school year..

Audition

  • The Vocal Arts interview-audition is a one-round process  

  • Please prepare one classical, folk, or contemporary song to perform

  • Classical musical theatre will also be accepted

  • Selections may be sung in English or in the original language

  • Audition material should be appropriate to the student’s vocal range and ability

  • An accompanist will be provided at the interview-audition, or you can bring your own accompanist. Please bring clean sheet music for the accompanist

  • CD or iPod track accompaniment is acceptable but not preferred

  • Candidate will be asked to sight-read a notated rhythm example and notated melodic example as well as a pitch recognition exercise

  • Please bring a current wallet size photo to the interview-audition

  • Dress in audition attire

  • Auditions are15 minutes in length