Adult Registration

This page is for Altos, Tenors, & Basses ages 18+ (for children and youth registration, click here)

Application Instructions

**All adult participants must have two people submit reference forms on their behalf. If you are a choir director, please have your clergy person and one other unrelated adult complete the form on your behalf.

We are often asked what skills are required of adult participants. While we believe that everyone benefits from participation in a choir, adults at RSCM DC will be most successful if they are comfortable with the following basic skills.

(RSCM RED RIBBON EQUIVALENT)

1. Be able to sing a hymn acapella

2. sing a psalm to Anglican/Plainsong; sing 4 verses acapella

3. Sing an anthem: such as Byrd, Ave verum corpus; Bruckner, Locus iste; Wesley, Blessed be the God and father

4. Sing a Magnificat from the standard repertoire, such has by Howells, Stanford or Brewer; or sing a solo for worship: such as Rutter, All things bright and beautiful

5. sightread a hymn

6. sing back 2 bar phrases

7. sing intervals: 2nds through 6ths

8. know your way around a score: time and key signatures, dynamics, note names, other musical terms

9. know how to interpret the text and style of a piece and know its context

10. be a regular member of a choir