• Music Scholarship

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North Greenville University offers professional degrees within a strong liberal arts setting in church music, performance, and music education.  Scholarships are awarded on the basis of auditions and are renewable each semester depending on satisfactory academic and music progress. 
 

The audition is an opportunity to display your talent, ask questions about North Greenville's Music program, and meet the faculty. It is required that all prospective music majors audition for acceptance into the Cline School of Music. It is asked that students seeking music scholarships submit a letter of recommendation from their music teacher to the Chair of the College of Fine Arts prior to the audition. You should arrange your audition by completing the attached audition application form and returning it to the Dean of The College of Fine Arts at least one week prior to the requested audition date. Students are encouraged to bring their own accompanist. One will be supplied if requested. The School of Music will inform you of the results of your audition as promptly as possible. 

1. A movement from a sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven.
2. A selection from Bach's Two or Three Part Inventions, Suites, Partitas, Toccatas or the Well-Tempered Clavier.
3. A composition from the Romantic, Impressionistic, or Modern Era.
4. Major and minor scales, two hands, four octaves.
5. Pianist should play auditions from memory.

Voice: 
 

1. Perform from memory two pieces of contrasting style, selected from sacred song, art song, oratorio, or opera literature.
2. Each person auditioning may be required to vocalize and to demonstrate musical memory.
3. Taped accompaniments are not allowed. An accompanist will be provided if needed. 

Brass, Woodwinds, Strings:

1. Play two compositions in contrasting styles from the standard literature.
2. Play scales or technical etudes suited to the individual instrument.
    

1. Demonstrate ability in at least tow of the following areas:

   • Snare drum (rudimentary and/or concert solo or etude)

   • Keyboard (2 or 4 mallet solo or etude)

   • Timpani (concert solo or etude)

   • Drumset (basic styles and improvisation)

2. Students should be prepared to sight-read and play rudiments and scales

Please click here to download the NGU Percussion Handbook.

No organ background

Play major and minor scales and one of J.S. Bach's Two or Three Part Inventions, a Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, or works of similar difficulty.

Organ Background

Play two pieces of differing styles.