PENNSYLVANIA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
STUDENT APPLICATION FOR HARPISTS

Student's Name_____________________________________Phone (____)_______________________

Address___________________________________________Age______Grade____________________

City/Town_______________________________________________________Zip_________________

Name of Parent/Guardian (Print)_________________________________________________________

  Parent's Signature_________________________________________________

  School____________________________________________Phone (____)_______________________

Address_____________________________________________________________________________

City/Town_______________________________________________________Zip_________________

  Name of Principal (Print)_______________________________________________________________

  Principal's Signature___________________________________________________________________

  Orchestra Director's Name (Print)________________________________________________________

Address_____________________________________________________________________________

City/Town_______________________________________________________Zip_________________

MENC I.D. #_______________PMEA District #_____________PMEA Region #__________________

 

Orchestra Director's Recommendation:

  (1) Briefly assess applicant's musical strengths__________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

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  (2) Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 as strongest)

 

PENNSYLVANIA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
HARP TRYOUT PROCEDURE FOR DISTRICT, REGION, ALL-STATE

Amended by the Executive Board, January 1997 and July 1998

  TRYOUT COMMITTEE: Appointed by the President

To be eligible to perform in ANY festival&emdash;district, regional, or state a harpist must:

(1) Submit an application and a tape at the district level to the District President by November 10 whowill arrange for judging all harp tapes for the district. The District Presidents will send the top tape to the

PMEA Executive Office, which will send them on to the appointed judge(s) for ranking by November 24.

  (2) Be a member of his/her school orchestra if one is in existence.

The tape should consist of a prepared solo taken from the suggested list or a solo of obvious greaterdifficulty. This tape should be submitted to the District President and should be postmarked two weeks prior to the scheduled tryout date. (Rationale: this will ensure the judging will be completed by the tryout date and music can be given immediately to the first-place harpist in each district).

The appointed judges for the state are responsible for ranking all tapes which must be clearly marked as per district. The judges will notify the PMEA Executive Director of the rankings, who will then notify the All State Orchestra host so that music can be sent to the top harpist.

If a harpist submits a solo tape at the district level, but does not participate in the district festival because there were no harp parts in the festival program, the same ranking would hold for regional orchestra. If no harp parts are needed for regional, the same ranking would hold for all-state orchestra in the event a harpist is needed for the all-state programs

 

The following is the suggested list of harp tryout solos:

Medium Difficulty
"Gavotte" from Suite of Eight DancesCarlos SalzedoLyra Music
"Bourree" by J.S. Bach, transcribedCarlos Salzedo Lyra Music
"Song in the Night"Carlos Salzedo (Last prelude in Method for Harp) Salzedo-Lawrence
"Giga"A. Correlli, transcribed Carlos SalzedoLyra Music
"Rumba" from Suite of Eight DancesCarlos Salzedo
  Difficult "Dance Sacred" from Dances Sacred and Profane, 1st danceClaude DebussyLyra Music
"Theme and Variations"trans. Z. Schott G. F. Handel(Tema con Varizioni)
"Sonata in D Major"(Ed. David Watkins) Parry 1st MovementAnthology of English Harp Music, Volume 3
Lyra Music&emdash;International Music Service
Box 66, Ansonia Station, New York, NY 10023
The following criteria will be used by the appointed judges in their determination and ranking procedure: