TO: REGION XII MIDDLE SCHOOLS FROM: KIM GARZA — REGION XII MS BAND COORDINATOR SUBJECT: REGION XII MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND AUDITION, CLINIC AND CONCERT INFORMATION PLEASE DO NOT PASS OUT MUSIC UNTIL MONDAY, AUGUST 28". This is the first day of school for the last district to start the school year. All Region XII middle schools are invited to participate in the Region XII Middle School Bands. Only those students who can commit to the Clinic and Concert on December 8" and 9, 2017 should audition. A student who misses more than 2 hours of rehearsal will be replaced by an alternate. A student who misses rehearsal after 12:00pm on Saturday, December 9", 2017 will not be allowed to perform on the concert. Patches will only be given to the students who perform at the concert. Directors should contact me as soon as possible concerning any conflicts with the Clinic and Concert. The 2017-2018 Region XII Middle School Band Audition will be divided into two zones. The Region XII Middle School Band 1 will be comprised of students from each zone, alternating chairs. The odd chairs will be from Zone 2 (North Zone) and the even chairs will be from the Zone 1 (South Zone). This system will alternate each year. Each Zone will also have a band comprised of students from that zone. The zones were grouped geographically as well as the high school each school feeds. Each Zone should have approximately equal number of students auditioning. Students will also be recognized at the district level with a District Patch. This group will not participate in the Clinic and Concert. AUDITION ENTRY FEE — All schools wishing to participate MUST register online before October 28, 2017, by midnight. Go to the TMEA website to register. Instructions are enclosed and can also be found on the TMEA website. (Track is MS, Time is None, Classification is “ALL”.) Be sure to list all assistant directors with the instrument they play on the TMEA web site entry. The entry fee of $9.00 per student and a hard copy of the summary entry must be postmarked no later than October 28, 2017. Please check the spelling of each student, as these entries will be used to create the clinic/concert program and souvenir items. Please double check your entry to make sure no one has been left off — there will be no exceptions for late entries. Please make checks payable to TMEA Region XII. Fees and the Summary Entry will be sent to: Kim Garza/Lopez MS 23103 Hardy Oak Blvd. San Antonio, TX 78258 (210) 356-5046 (school) (210) 860-8973 (cell) kgarzal@neisd.netPlease include on your hard copy of the summary all possible judges from your Middle School and High School. ELIGIBILITY — University Interscholastic League rules for middle school eligibility will apply to all students wishing to audition for the TMEA Region Bands. Remember that participating students may only be certified for auditions and events by an ACTIVE member of TMEA and you must include a copy of your current TMEA membership card with your entry. Students may audition on flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, french horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, and percussion. Students may not audition on more than one instrument. The Zones are as follows: Zone 1 (South Zone) Zone 2 (North Zone) Alamo Heights Bush Barnes Canyon Bradley Church Hill Briesmeister Goodnight Driscoll Lockhart Ed White Lopez Eisenhower Miller Floresville New Braunfels Gamer Oak Run Harris Smithson Valley Jackson Spring Branch Krueger Tejeda Nimitz Tex Hill Wood AUDITION DATE & SITE - Auditions will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2017. The Zone 1 (South Zone) auditions will be at Harris MS, Marianne White. The Zone 2 (North Zone) auditions will be at Oak Run MS, Anna Zientek. Three bands will be selected. CLINIC/CONCERT DATE & SITE — The Region Band Clinic/Concert will be held on Friday and Saturday, December 8" and December 9", 2017 at Johnson HS. Please be sure to let students/parents know ahead of time that they are required to fulfill all obligations if chosen for the All-Region Band.Band Organizer: Rey Benitez Percussion Organizer: Vicky Watson Band 2 — Zone 1 (South) Band 2 Zone 2 (North) inician: Nate Nuegent Clinician: Andy Post Band Organizer: Louie & Heidi Blancarte Band Organizer: Steve McGrew Percussion Organizer: Liz Landry Percussion Organizer: JUDGING — All band directors and assistant directors from schools sending students to audition for the Region Band will be placed on a judging panel for the audition on Saturday, November 11, 2017. If you cannot judge, you MUST find a Region XII Band Director to take your place and pay them yourself if they are not in the region. In addition, please ask the directors at your high school to help as well. In turn, please give your commitment to judge your high school’s district band in November/December. We must help one another in order to keep down the costs involved in hiring outside judges. We will use 5 person panels for all instruments. ALL DIRECTORS LISTED ON YOUR REGISTRATION FORM WILL BE ASSIGNED TO A JUDGING PANEL. PLEASE INDICATE ALL DIRECTORS ON THIS LIST THAT WILL BE ABLE TO JUDGE. AUDITION MUSIC — Copies of the audition etudes are included in this packet. The scales are not, so please download/print them from the Region 12 MS Band web-site at region! 2band.weebly.com. The major scales — Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, G, C, and F Concert — must be played tongued up and slurred down as written. A scale sheet will be provided on the music stand in each audition room at the contest as students will NOT be required to memorize scales. The number of octaves varies according to the instrument. Please refer to the scale sheet and inform your students to play only the number of octaves required for this audition. The chromatic scale must also be played as written, tongued up and slurred down and NOT from memory. In the audition, two of the seven major scales will be picked by a consensus of the judging panel on the day of the audition. The chromatic scale will be mandatory and piayed by all students. The etudes for each instrument are clearly marked. ALL STUDENTS MUST PLAY ALL ETUDES LISTED FOR THEIR INSTRUMENT. IN ADDITION TO SCALES, ALL INSTRUMENTS HAVE TWO ETUDES EXCEPT PERCUSSION. PERCUSSION WILL NOT PLAY SCALES. PERCUSSION WILL ONLY PLAY ONE SNARE, ONE MALLET, AND ONE TIMPANI ETUDE. Each instrument has one lyrical and one technical etude to perform. Please screen your students prior to the audition so that only students that are prepared come to the audition, as to not waste both judges and students time. MUSIC SHOULD NOT BE PASSED OUT UNTIL THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR THE LAST DISTRICT TO BEGIN SCHOOL, WHICH IS MONDAY, AUGUST 28"!!! Please let me know of any erratas as soon as possible so that I may let everyone else know in a timely manner and so we may post on the Region 12 MS Band website.Region XIl MS Band Audition Etudes - Year B Flute: Etude No. 1 - Selected Studies for Flute-Voxman Pg. 12 Quarter note=65. Play from beginning to line 6. Etude No. 2~Selected Studies for Flute-Voxman Pg. 23 Eighth note=138. Play from beginning to line 7, measure 2. Oboe: Etude No. 1 — Selected Studies for Oboe-Voxman Pg. 8~ Eighth note=100. Play first five lines only. Etude No. 2~Gekler Method for Oboe, Book II Pg. 19, #26 — Quarter note=112. Play from beginning to line 6, measure 4. Bassoon: Etude No. 1~ Studies and Melodious Etudes for Bassoon by Paine/Ployhar P. 12, Etude No. 9. Dotted quarter note=54-60. Play all. Etude No. 2 Second Book of Practical Studies-McDowell/Hovey Pg. 10, #68 — Quarter note=100. Play all. Clarinet: Etude No. 1 ~ Selected Studies for Clarinet by H. Voxman Pg, 2, CMajor. Quarter note=80. Play to first note of Line 5, Etude No. 2~ Selected Studies for Clarinet by H. Voxman Pg, 3. Quarter note=90. Play from beginning to end of Line 6. Bass Clarinet: Etude No. 1~Transposed from Bassoon etude no. 1 Etude No. 2—Transposed from Bassoon etude no. 2 Saxophone Etude No. 1~Twenty Seven Melodious and Rhythmical Exercises-J L Small Pg. 24, #16 - Quarter Note=64-68. Play from beginning to fermata. Disregard all grace notes. Etude No. 2- Twenty Seven Melodious and Rhythmical Exercises-J L Small Pg. 23, #15 — Dotted half note=56-66. Play from 6" line last measure (m. 35) to very last 1e, 1* note of last measure (downbeat of m. 60)‘Trumpet Etude No. 1-The Complete Solfeggi-Giuseppe Concone/transcribed by John Korak Pg, 88, #3 — Quarter note=60. Play beginning to whole note in m. 29. Etude No, 2 - Second Book of Practical Studies for Comet and Trumpet-Robert Getchel/Hovey Pg, 50, #98 - Dotted quarter note=50-60. Play all. French Horn: Etude No. 1 - Second Book of Practical Studies for French Horn by Robert W. Getchell Pg, 13, #89 — Dotted quarter note=50. Play all Etude No. 2 Preparatory Melodies to Solo Work-Max Pottag, Pg. 5, #10 - Quarter note=100. Play all. ‘Trombone, Baritone, Tuba Etude No. 1—Rubank Intermediate Method for Eb or BBb Bass Pg. 38, #2 Variation 1. Quarter note=74-80. Play all. Play Legato. Etude No. 2~ Rubank Intermediate Method for Eb or BBb Bass Pg. 28, #5 — Technical Etude, Quarter note=50-60. Play all. Percussi Snare Etude ~ Intermediate Snare Drum Studies-Mitchell Peters Pg. 29, #17. Quarter note=112-120, Play all. Mallet Etude - Masterpieces for Marimba, arr. by Thomas McMillan Pg. 5, Sonatina. Quarter note=96-104. 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