Solo and Ensemble Festival Proficiency Information and Guidelines Realizing that all home school education is directly under the supervision and responsibility of the parents, these guidelines are provided for you and your student to make the best decision in placement for examination. The following categories are open for all students. Keep in mind that the grading was created For these levels of students 10th grade — Proficiency 111th grade Proficiency I 12th grade ~ Proficieney IIL Event Information: LOCATION: IMPORTANT DATES: CONTACT INFORMATION: JAHE Home School Music ¢/o Spring Arbor University 106 E Main Street Spring Arbor, MI 49283 JAHEhomeschoolmusic@gmail.com Smith Music Center @ Spring Arbor University Main Campus Event Date: April 2,2016 Entry Deadline: March 14 A. Schedule Each event is allotted a 15 minute segment. Participants should report to the registration table 30 minutes prior to their scheduled performance time. Please make every effort to observe the reserved times. B. Medals 1. When you receive your rating you may retrieve your comment sheets and medals in the office (room 113). Allow 30 minutes for processing. Please be patient with our Student Teachers, 2. Medals are also available forthe Proficiency Examination section. Students who reccive a score of 21-27 are entitled to a red profieieney medal, and those whose score is 28-35 are entitled to a blue proficiency medal C. Performances: 1. Itis recommended that each soloist, ensemble and chamber ensemble event provide the adjudicator an original score with each ‘measure numbered 2. Solos need not be memorized 3. The Solo and Ensemble representative will check each adjudication sheet for correct correlation between final rating and letter grades cor numbers before the rating is released. Any sheet marked incorrectly willbe retumed to the adjudicator and corrected immediately. Once a rating is posted and the sheet released, the rating is final and cannot be changed. D. Proficiency Exams: ‘Wind and String T. Seales 25 points 2 Sight Reading 25 points 3. Prepared Solo 35 points Snare Drum T. Stick Control 25 points 2. Sight Reading 25 points, 3. Prepared Solo 35 points, Timpani T. Sight Reading 25 points 2. Prepared Etude (Proficiency IIL ‘Students must prepare both Etudes 1 and I) 25 points 3. Prepared Solo 35 points Melody Percussion Mixed Percussion 1, Seales and Aspeggios 15 points 2. JS Bach Invention/Fugue 15 points 3. Sight Reading 20 points 4. Prepared Solo 35 points 1. Seales and/or Four Mallet Chord Progressions 25 points 2, Sight Reading 25 points 3. Prepared Solo 35 points, Soloists will play proficieney requirements 1 and 2 on either snare, mallets, or tympani 1. Rudiments 25 points 2. Sight Reading 25 points 3. Prepared Solo 35 points 1, Seales: (Note: these appear in an additional document) The student wil be prepared to play the seales listed for his/her instrument in the rhythm and tempo indicated. Seales will be ‘memorized. Articulations for winds will be all slurred or all tongued, as directed by the judge. Strings use bowings on String Proficieney page. Melody percussion only roll the last note. 2, Piano Invention or Fugue: (Piano Solo events only) The piano invention or fugue does not have to be memorized. The adjudicator's copy of the Bach Selection will be provided. Piano entries play the seale and arpengio as a unit and are rated on them as one item. 3. Prepared Solo The student may prepare a solo of any length, the guideline is not less than one minute for Jt. or not less than two minutes for Sr. Canis not a requirem ). The judge shall have ight to start and stop the student in the solo as he/she desires, The judge should be furnished an ORIGINAL (*), numbered copy of the solo, other than the one used by the student, for adjudication 4, Sight Reading a. Sight reading will be graded according to the Proficiency level. 1b Sinty secuncle will be allowed foe sinsly of proficiency aight reasling. Following this, the siadaut will bain to play.