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Select Your Major *
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What is your primary area of performance? *
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What is your area of interest? *
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Dance Audition Requirements
Prepare an audition following the instructions below:
• Attire (Females): Ballet shoes, black leotards, pink tights and hair secured in a bun
• Attire (Males): Ballet shoes, white T-shirt, black tights
• Please prepare: a ballet barre, ballet center work and a modern or contemporary phrase
o Complete ballet barre, demonstrating placement and technique
o Ballet center work, demonstrating work in adagio with leg extensions, turns, small jumps and leaps
o An additional technique (modern dance preferred, may be jazz dance or other): a dance phrase highlighting technique and performance ability.
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Musical Theatre Audition Requirements
o Please prepare/memorize 1 sixty second monologue and 32 bars of a musical theatre song (please use accompaniment. No acapella)
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Worship Leadership Audition Requirements
o Candidate must sing a worship song preferably self-accompanied on keys or guitar.
o If the student is unable to accompany themselves, worship auditions may also be a cappella, with an accompanist, or with a backing track.
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Commercial Music Requirements
Demonstrate skill through an instrument or vocal audition, submit an EBM (electronic body music), submit a solely produced music recording, submit a video demonstration of them working in music production (ex., Video running a soundboard, etc.) or other music production skills approved by the department.
• Vocal Auditions for Commercial Music- Two memorized commercial songs, no originals. Styles include: Jazz, Country, R&B, Folk, and Pop/Light Rock. Maximum 1 song per style. *Genres do not include Musical Theatre
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Music Audition Requirements (Piano)
o At least one composition from each stylistic period: Baroque (J.S. Bach, Handel, etc.), Classical (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc.), Romantic (Schumann, Chopin, etc.), and 20th Century (Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, etc.) Memorization is required of performance majors but is preferred for all other majors.
All major scales with both hands simultaneously in sixteenth
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Music Audition Requirements (Organists)
o Organ- Three or four compositions from standard organ literature of various periods (Bach, Franck, or Mendelssohn); or play piano audition.
o Piano - At least one composition from each stylistic period: Baroque (J.S. Bach, Handel, etc.), Classical (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc.), Romantic (Schumann, Chopin, etc.), and 20th Century (Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, etc.) Memorization is required of performance majors but is preferred for all other majors.
All major scales with both hands simultaneously in sixteenth
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Music Audition Requirements (Singers)
o One song in a foreign language (Italian, French, or German); two additional compositions in contrasting styles and periods. Songs found on State Music Contest lists are acceptable. (Must have accompaniment)
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Music Audition Requirements (String Players)
o A movement from a Bach solo sonata or partita; a first movement from a concerto; and another work of your own choosing; a 2-octave major and minor scale of student’s choice M.M. 80
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Music Audition Requirements (Guitar)
o Must demonstrate guitar aptitude. Knowledge of open chords, major/minor scales, and bar chords in several positions. Must have a basic fret board knowledge (0-12th fret) and be able to play the ionian, mixolydian and aeolian (natural minor) scales. A finger style classical piece could be substituted for the above qualifications. A demonstration of fingerpicking is a plus.
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Music Audition Requirements (Percussion)
o Three selections of contest repertoire; an exercise inclusive of rudiments; solo selections to include use of mallets. (A drum set audition does not meet percussion audition requirements. Music Production is the only major that accepts drum set as a primary instrument)
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Music Audition Requirements (Wind & Brass)
o Three selections of contrasting styles from the standard repertoire (sonatas, concertos, solo pieces of contest quality); a 2-octave chromatic scale, a 2-octave major and minor scale of student’s choice, M.M. 80-120
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Theatre Audition Requirements (Classroom & Community)
• Please prepare/memorize 1 sixty-second monologue & prepare a portfolio/slideshow of photos & descriptions from your previous theatre work. (may include work from Church productions, ministries, missions, after-school programs, outreach programs, children’s theatre leadership experiences, Fine Arts, etc.)
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Theatre Audition Requirements (Production & Design)
Portfolio/Video:
• Please prepare a portfolio/slideshow of photos and descriptions from your previous theatre work (may also be work from Church productions, Fine Arts, etc.)
• Be prepared to share one of your theatre experiences and explain why you want to pursue a degree in theatre production & design at ORU.
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Theatre Audition Requirements (Theatre Performance)
• Please prepare/memorize 2 sixty-second monologues, 1 comedic and 1 dramatic OR 1 sixty-second monologue and 32 bars of a musical theatre song (accompaniment required. No acapella, please)
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Art Portfolio Requirements
Create a digital portfolio with a minimum of ten (10) examples of your best work. Recommended sites for
no-cost portfolio hosting include Carbonmade and Behance.
Write a letter stating why you want to major in art at ORU. Please mention any awards or honors you have
received. Please limit your statement to 500 words.
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Digital Submission (Optional)
If you would like to share a video or portfolio in advance, you can upload it to a shareable platform such as YouTube, Dropbox, or Vimeo and provide the URL in the box below.
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