Audition Date:
November 22, 2025
Audition Location:
King Philip High School, Wrentham
2025-2026 Audition Metrics & Cut-Off Scores
- Audition Registration Portal
- Senior Audition Times – See Registration Portal for your audition time
- Audition Time Change Request – Directors Only
- Adjudication Forms
Audition Procedures
- Registration will be open from October 1 – November 18. Late registrations will be accepted November 19-20, with a $20 late fee.
- Each School will be assigned a time that will be known by your group director.
- All requirements and regulations for auditions are listed on the District Web Site in the Handbook for directors to be printed out for students.
- After the portal closes, any changes must be made at the Registration Table on the day of auditions.
Fees:
- The Audition Fee per audition will be $20. Checks should be made out to: Southeastern District – MMEA
- After that, a Late Fee of $20 will be assessed along with your $20 fee at the auditions site for a total of $40.
Scales and Sight-Reading
All Instruments will have a sight-reading requirement
VOCAL SIGHT READING
- Vocal sight-reading for 2025 is F Major, 4 measures long
- Will start and end on the tonic
- Will include all pitches of the diatonic scale as they fit the range of the voice part
- Will include steps and intervals of a third
- Could include whole, half, quarter and eighth notes, including rests and dotted rhythms
- Bass sight-reading is in bass clef.
SCALE INFORMATION
- All-State Scale Concert Band Scales Folder
- Mallet Percussion Scales
- All State String Scales Folder
- Scales are now required for all vocalists. See the Attached Vocal Scale Sheet
- Minor Scales are not required.
- All scales are to be performed from memory.
Percussion Requirements
Multi-Percussion Requirement (required for all percussionists):
- Multi-percussion excerpts aligned with the Senior Auditions Rubric are available on the full audition list.
(Thank you to Western District for the use of their selections!) - All Multi-Percussion instruments will be provided.
Snare Drum Rudiments
Students should bring their own drum and sticks.
- Moderately closed roll with dynamics (ff > pp and pp < ff)
- 5 and 9 stroke rolls alternating
- 7 stroke roll, left hand
- Flam accents #1 and #2
- Single and double paradiddles
- Ruff
- Triple ratamacue
- Flamacue
Timpani
Students should bring their own mallets.
- Single stroke roll with dynamics (ff > pp and pp < ff)
- Tuning timpani to required pitches
Vocal
Notice for Senior Auditions Vocal Piece.
There are two errors in the Soprano part on the purchased vocal tracks.
1) At m.61 the notated pitches are C-Bb while the voice on the recording sings E-D.
2) At m.70 the notated pitch on the first beat is a G while the recording sings an F.
Vocal judges will be instructed to accept either the notated pitches or the pitches on the track without reduction to a singer’s score.
“Write On My Heart” – David Childs, SATB
Santa Barbara Music Publishing – SBMP 1753
**From pickup to m. 49 – m. 71 ONLY! (Accompaniment track starts in m. 47)**
STUDENTS WILL AUDITION WITH THE VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT TRACK ONLY!
🔈 Link to Accompaniment Tracks
All Sopranos will sing the Soprano 1 part for the audition.
All Altos will sing the Alto 2 part for the audition.
All Tenors will sing the Tenor 1 part for the audition.
All Basses will sing the Bass 2 part for the audition.
*Please note that the tracks included are intended to assist students in learning pitches/rhythms only. We strongly encourage students to work with their school music teachers, and/or private lesson teachers, to develop characteristic tone quality and musicality appropriate for the audition.
MMEA Southeastern District 