Audition Date:
November 21, 2026
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 17. Late registrations will be accepted November 18-19, 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 2026 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
You Do Not Walk Alone by Elaine Hagenberg
Recording will begin at m 89. Students will sing from m. 92-135
CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR: Students will sing with all parts minus their track. Students singing Soprano should sing S1. Students singing Bass should sing B2.
STUDENTS WILL AUDITION WITH THE VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT TRACK ONLY!
🔈 Link to Accompaniment Tracks
*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 