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Vocal and Instrumental

Vocal and Instrumental Sections – General Conditions

  1. Nominations can be submitted on the official nomination form at the Conroy Hall on Friday 17th June from 2 pm-6 pm. Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for receipt and competitor’s ticket. IF posted, nominations must be in the hands of the secretary by Friday 17th June 2022. Please allow several business days for Australia post delivery.
  2. All pieces are to be own choice for all vocal and instrumental sections, within the guidelines appropriate to each section.
  3. Competitors are not permitted to repeat a performance of the same item in these sections.
  4. Own choice material to be handed in on Monday 1st August or Tuesday 2nd August at the TYTO Gallery between 8am – 5pm. PLEASE DO NOT POST. If OWN CHOICE WORK is not submitted on time, the competitor will be disqualified.
  5. FAXED COPIES will not be accepted.
  6. NO changes will be accepted after the cut-off date.
  7. Please clearly mark on the top right hand of the first page of the manuscript as follows:

    Section Number……………
    Competitor’s Number…………..
  8. Age Groups – Age Groups for all sections will be determined by the committee after the receipt of entries.
  9. Original copies of material must be collected from the foyer table, immediately after the completion of the section.
  10. No BACKING TRACKS TO BE USED FOR ANY VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL SECTION OTHER THAN ‘POP VOCAL’.
  11. Popular vocal solo – Please advise on nomination the type of accompaniment you will be using. Eg backing track, piano accompaniment.
  12. IF UNABLE TO COMPETE ON THE DAY OF PERFORMANCE – PLEASE NOTIFY THE COMMITTEE A.S.A.P. No section will be held up waiting for performers.

Vocal and Instrumental – Sections

  1. CLASSICAL PIANO SOLO – [Composed before 1900]
  2. PIANO SOLO – 20th/21st Century (including Jazz, Blues, Boogie, Ragtime)
  3. WOODWIND/BRASS SOLO – Non-electric (includes Recorders)
  4. UKULELE SOLO
  5. GUITAR SOLO – Non-electric
  6. BOWED STRINGS SOLO – Composed before 1900
  7. BOWED STRINGS SOLO – 20th/21st Century (including Jazz, Blues etc.)
  8. ELECTRIC GUITAR SOLO
  9. PERCUSSION SOLO (Tuned or Untuned)
  10. SOLO FOR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT
  11. J.S. BACH SOLO – Any instrument. Secondary
  12. PIANO DUETS
  13. INSTRUMENTAL DUETS – Two players – Any instrumental combination including piano
  14. INSTRUMENTAL TRIO – Three players – Any instrumental combination
  15. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE – 4 to 10 performers
  16. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE – 11+ performers
  17. POPULAR VOCAL SOLO – Composed from 1980 onwards – Use of microphone is compulsory. Accompaniment may be either CD/USB, piano or guitar. Please advise on nomination form accompaniment choice. Competitors are responsible for organising their own form or mode of accompaniment, keeping in mind the set-up time of 1 minute. The committee will not be responsible for any equipment used. Music score, not lyrics only must be submitted with own choice.

    Other Vocal and Choral Sections (excluding Folksong) – piano accompaniment only.
  18. SACRED VOCAL SOLO – Own choice.
  19. VOCAL SOLO – from any A.B.C. Songbook (costumes optional)
  20. VOCAL SOL0 – AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER Classical/Art Song, not Contemporary Works
  21. VOCAL SOLO FROM ANY FILM, MUSICAL, MUSICAL COMEDY/OPERETTA – To be performed in costume
  22. VOCAL DUO
  23. CHORAL PRIMARY CHOIRS – SMALL SCHOOLS – (A School having up to 60 students)
  24. CHORAL PRIMARY CHOIRS -VOCAL PRIMARY GROUP – 4 to 12 voices
  25. CHORAL PRIMARY CHOIRS – UNISON
  26. CHORAL PRIMARY CHOIRS- TWO/THREE PART
  27. CHORAL PRIMARY CHOIRS – FOLKSONG – (Definition of Folksong from Grove Dictionary, p.693 vol.6 -“Folksong music being from rudimentary beginnings by a community uninfluenced by popular and art music and it can likewise be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten living tradition of a community.”) Simple props, costumes and movement optional. Choral Primary Folksong may be sung unaccompanied, accompanied by piano or any combination of traditional instruments.
  28. CHORAL SECONDARY CHOIRS – FOLKSONG
  29. CHORAL SECONDARY CHOIRS – UNISON
  30. CHORAL SECONDARY CHOIRS -TWO/THREE PART
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