The sight-singing test is one of the important contents of the entrance examination for music majors in colleges and universities. Through sight-reading and singing, the candidate's sight-reading, intonation, rhythm and musical expression are examined. Understand the candidate's other musical qualities. In recent years, the scale of college entrance examinations has continued to expand, and the number of candidates has increased dramatically. At the same time, sight-singing examinations are also seeking efficient and high-reliability examination methods. However, judging from the format and difficulty of the test questions, there is almost no change in the content of the test. This is restricted by the characteristics of the sight-singing major and the overall level of the candidates.

Facing the annual music college entrance examination, how should many candidates better cope with the audition exam? How to fully grasp the audition questions in hand? The following is an analysis of the sight-singing test questions and examination formats in college music recruitment examinations in recent years, and proposes coping strategies for everyone.

1. Content analysis of test questions:

Sight-singing test questions do not have several different questions like music theory test papers. Each question is relatively independent. It is usually a song. Or two short songs.

The knowledge points included in the sight-singing test questions are:

1. Rhythm and beat: including notes and rests of various commonly used time values ??(half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note, thirty-second note); basic rhythm patterns, syncopated rhythm patterns, dotted Rhythm pattern, triplet; commonly used beats: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8.

2. Melody: including the fourteen commonly used natural intervals, variations, scales and arpeggiated progressions.

3. In terms of keys and modes: Western major and minor keys in two sharps and two flats and Chinese pentatonic modes.

4. In terms of music terminology markers: there are speed terms, intensity terms, expression terms and other markers.

5. Two kinds of musical notation: five-line musical notation and simplified musical notation.

6. Test question length: Generally, it is eight bars of a square piece of music, but varies from eight to sixteen bars in individual colleges.

Not all test questions in each college are a combination of the above content, but the sight-singing questions in most colleges have the above characteristics 1, 2, 3, and 5. Some colleges' test questions are excerpts from a certain work, and some are from a certain sight-singing book, but more colleges choose to carefully design their own test questions.

2. Analysis of exam format:

The sight-singing exam is conducted using an interview method. It is similar in form to dance, vocal music, piano and other academic exams, but the sight-singing exam has its own test paper. In addition to their own test centers, many colleges and universities also have test centers in other provinces. After the candidate enters the examination room, he or she will take out a test question from the test question bag containing the audition questions, take about two minutes to prepare, and then sing the test question to the judges for on-site scoring. Not all colleges use pianos to give notes during exams. Some colleges use pianos to give the pitch of the first note in order to provide a yardstick for pitch accuracy.

3. Exam coping strategies:

1. Necessary "hot voice" exercises should be done before the exam

The sight-singing exam is a test that converts symbols into sounds in a short time. To a large extent, the sight-singing test uses sound to express the test content just like vocal music. The flexibility of the vocal cords affects the performance of pitch. Before the exam, you can sing the ascending and descending scales of major, minor, and pentatonic modes; several simple arpeggios; fulcrum scales, etc. We call these scales "voice training songs" for sight-singing and ear training. Note: When singing these "vocal training songs", you should sing the relationship between each interval accurately by tapping the time with your hands. You can choose a speed of 60/minute. The first two notes are played in one beat, and the last four notes are played in one beat. once. Practice has proven that doing this preparation is of great benefit to the sight-singing exam.

2. The format of the sight-singing test is an interview for the candidates

The sight-singing test uses a "singing" method to answer questions. The test is "whether you can convert musical symbols into sounds in a short time." In terms of the test format The interview method is used, which not only has the characteristics of a general interview, but also has its own professional requirements. It requires harmony and beauty between the objective external image and the subjective external image. Objective external image mainly refers to: height, shape, appearance, etc.; subjective external image includes: temperament expression, dress and professional requirements, etc. It is difficult to create a new objective external image in a short period of time, but subjectively we can adjust our external temperament.

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First, overcome nervousness psychologically. Being fully prepared can help you calm yourself. Deep breathing is one of the fastest and easiest ways to regulate your emotions. Maintaining confidence is a magic weapon for overcoming stage fright.

b. Dress appropriately and generously, make up in a light and natural way, and try not to wear casual clothes or slippers, so as not to leave a too casual impression on the interviewer and affect your test scores.

c. When registering for the exam, you should try your best to speak Mandarin. When singing the exam questions, you should use the correct posture: stand naturally, keep a certain distance from the judges, hold the music with your left hand about 20 centimeters in front of your chest, and beat the beat with your right hand slightly lower than the left hand. The volume should be moderate. , the tone should be tactful.

3. You must have an overall grasp of the sight-singing test questions in your hand.

When preparing for test questions, you should quickly browse the test questions and grasp the difficulty of the test questions from a macro perspective. You should do six things: check whether it is a music score that you often practice, familiarize yourself with the roll call; look at the beats number, select the beat pattern that matches it; look at the note value of the rhythm, select the speed; look at the highest and lowest notes of the mode, choose whether to transpose and determine the range of the singing score; see if there are continuous wide intervals or complex Intervals (note: this is a difficulty for all candidates), if you are really unsure, you can avoid these two notes to avoid affecting the entire exam; look at the mode category to grasp the musical style of the mode.

4. It is necessary to grasp the integrity of the sight-singing examination.

The so-called integrity of "singing" means that the expression of the test questions is complete and has good musicality. This is also a critical step, because the test score will be completed the moment the candidate finishes singing the test questions. The scoring of sight-singing test questions is not like the objective scoring of music theory test questions. The scoring of sight-singing exams is based on objective standards and subjective judgments. The judges' scoring of test questions mainly considers two parts: basic points and performance points. The basic points are used to measure the accuracy of the candidate's grasp of pitch and rhythm. The performance points are mainly used to measure the candidate's understanding and expression of music. From this point of view, if the candidate sings the test questions completely without any pauses or wrong notes and the music is expressive, then his score will be high; otherwise, his score will be low.

Due to the differences in the nature of training and the requirements of each major between professional colleges and ordinary colleges and universities, the difficulty of the sight-singing test questions is also different. What we are analyzing here is the general sight-singing test for music admissions in ordinary colleges and universities. We will not analyze the test questions for sight-singing, ear-training, composition and other majors in professional colleges, and the requirements of each college are also different. If candidates want to apply for these majors, they should understand the examination requirements of each institution in advance.

In summary, a comprehensive grasp of the sight-singing exam is of great significance to improving candidates' competitiveness in the music college entrance examination. However, the sight-singing test is still part of the music recruitment examination. Only by handling every subject of the professional examination can candidates truly enter the ideal university.