Undergraduate Audition Requirements
Amplified Voice majors can choose between two primary genres for their voice lessons: Jazz/Contemporary Styles or Musical Theatre. Your degree also requires participation in ensembles that focus on jazz or classical repertoire. Regardless of your chosen genre for lessons, you can audition for both classical and jazz ensembles (e.g., Amplified Vocalists can audition for Concert Choir, and Classical Vocalists can audition for jazz choir).
Choose the genre that best fits your experience and academic goals, and follow the audition requirements below.
Amplified Voice, Jazz or Contemporary Music styles:
- Sing major scale (unaccompanied, eighth notes, in any key using either solfege or neutral syllables)
- Rhythmic and melodic sight reading
- Prepare 2 contrasting pieces from memory:
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- Jazz Composition: Please sing 1 of the compositions below in a proper key for your particular vocal range. You should sing the song through twice: once as written, and a second time interpreting melody (with some changes to original or rhythm show your own interpretation.
- Bye Bye Blackbird by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon
- Centerpiece by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks
- It Could Happen to You by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen
- Night and Day by Cole Porter
- Corcovado by Antônio Carlos Jobim
- One contrasting piece that shows the style of music you’re most comfortable with. This can be jazz, R&B, gospel, pop etc.
- Jazz Composition: Please sing 1 of the compositions below in a proper key for your particular vocal range. You should sing the song through twice: once as written, and a second time interpreting melody (with some changes to original or rhythm show your own interpretation.
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If you have questions about jazz/contemporary music auditions, or you need help knowing how to prepare, please email devon.russo@uri.edu.
Amplified Voice, Musical Theater:
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- Sing major scale (unaccompanied, eighth notes, in any key using either solfege or neutral syllables)
- Rhythmic and melodic sight reading
- Prepare two contrasting pieces from memory:
- One up-tempo and one ballad
- One of the prepared songs must be from Golden Age Musical Theatre (pre- 1965) and one from Contemporary Musical Theatre (post-1965)
If you have questions about jazz/contemporary music auditions, or you need help knowing how to prepare, please email Hannah Martin or Devon Russo.
Did you know? URI currently offers two vocal tracks: Classical and Amplified Voice. The Classical Voice track primarily studies Classical Music in addition to Folk Songs, African-American spirituals, and classic Musical Theater repertoire. If you think that might be right for you, please click here to see the audition requirements.