UIL CONCERT/SIGHTREADING CONTEST
This
is the staple competition for UIL, occurring every year in the spring
in all 33 regions of the state. Bands prepare a concert program of
three pieces chosen from the Prescribed Music List and perform for a
panel of three judges who rate the bands with one of five
ratings, 1-Superior, 2-Excellent, 3-Good, 4-Fair, 5-Poor. The judges
cannot confer about their ratings and the FINAL rating is a consensus of
the three NOT an average. For instance, a I, I, V is a ONE. A V, V, I
is a FIVE, etc. Theoretically,
EVERY band can get a I=superior or a V= poor. The competition is NOT
among the bands themselves but against a standard of excellence that has
been established through the many decades of this competition.
Immediately following the concert, bands move to another room to
sightread a piece of music chosen to be read by all the bands within a
class statewide! The music for sightreading is composed specifically
for the contest and addresses certain fundamentals that are aligned with
the curriculum for each classification. This is the musical
equivalent of a statewide achievement test for Band.
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