Choirs and Ensembles – Classes 1 to 37
Class 1 – Choirs – Mixed Voices
For choirs in which the majority of members are aged 19 and over. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 2 – Choirs – Upper Voices
For choirs in which the majority of members are aged 19 and over. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 3 – Choirs – Lower Voices
For choirs in which the majority of members are aged 19 and over. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 4 – Choirs (non-competitive)
For choirs not performing in classes 1-3 and 5-32. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 5 – Church Choirs
For choirs connected with churches, singing in three or more parts. The Presbytery of Glasgow Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 6 – Church Choirs (non-competitive)
For choirs connected with churches and not performing in classes 1-5 and 7-32. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £40.00
Class 7 – Youth Choirs (under 19)
For choirs singing in three or more parts and comprising singers aged 18 and under, ineligible for classes 19-25. The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 8 – Boys’ Choirs (under 19)
For choirs comprising boys aged 18 and under, ineligible for classes 21-25. The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 9 – Youth Choirs (under 16)
For choirs comprising singers aged 15 and under, ineligible for classes 19-25. The Herald Challenge Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces:
- (a) All things bright and beautiful (2 part) John Rutter (OUP)
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 10 – Youth Choirs (non-competitive)
For singers aged 18 and under, not performing in classes 7-9 and 11-18, and ineligible for classes 19-25. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 11 – Junior Choirs (under 14)
For choirs comprising singers aged 13 and under, not performing in class 12 and ineligible for classes 19-32. The Herald Challenge Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces:
- (a) A Clare Benediction (to be sung in unison) John Rutter (OUP)
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 12 – Boys’ Choirs (under 14)
For choirs comprising singers aged 13 and under, ineligible for classes 19-32. The Herald Challenge Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 13 – Junior Choirs (under 10)
For choirs comprising singers aged 9 and under, ineligible for classes 26-32.
Test Pieces:
- (a) Water-melon Seller (Pick’n’Choose) Aubrey Beswick (Universal)
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 14 – Junior Choirs (non-competitive)
For singers aged 13 and under and not performing in classes 7-9, 11-13 and 15-18, and ineligible for classes 19-32. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting items.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 15 – Youth Choirs – Scots Song (under 19)
For choirs comprising singers aged 18 and under, ineligible for classes 19-25.
Test Pieces:
- (a) Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any song arrangement from the New Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Oxford Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Saltire Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press) or The Saltire Two Part Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press).
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any arrangement of a Scots song in two or more parts. If a song is to be sung in Gaelic, a literal translation of the words must be provided for the adjudicator.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 16 – Junior Choirs – Scots Song (under 14)
For choirs comprising singers aged 13 and under, ineligible for classes 19-32.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two song arrangements from the New Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Oxford Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Saltire Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press) or The Saltire Two Part Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 17 – Youth Choirs – Hymn Singing (under 19)
For choirs comprising singers aged 18 and under, ineligible for classes 19-25.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting hymns.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 18 – Junior Choirs – Hymn Singing (under 14)
For choirs comprising singers aged 13 and under, ineligible for classes 19-32.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two contrasting hymns.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 19 – School Choirs – Mixed Voices
For choirs singing in three or more parts and comprising singers from a school (see regulation 9). The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 20 – School Choirs – Girls
For singers from a school (see regulation 9). The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs, one of which must be a part song.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 21 – School Choirs – Boys
For singers from a school (see regulation 9). The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs, one of which must be a part song.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 22 – School Choirs (S3 and under)
For singers from a school (see regulation 9) not performing in classes 19-21. The Herald Challenge Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs, one of which must be a part song.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 23 – School Choirs – Scots Song
For singers from a school (see regulation 9).
Test Pieces: As for class 15.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 24 – School Choirs (non-competitive)
For singers from a school (see regulation 9) not performing in classes 19-23 and 25. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs. If a song is to be sung in Gaelic, a literal translation of the words must be provided for the adjudicator.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 25 – School Chamber Choirs
For choirs comprising 18 to 30 singers from a school (see regulation 9) and singing in three or more parts. The Anne Wiseman Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 26 – Primary School Choirs
For singers from a primary school (see regulation 9). The Wood Memorial Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces:
- (a) You spotted snakes C Armstrong Gibbs (Novello)
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 27 – Primary School Choirs – Boys
For singers from a primary school (see regulation 9) not performing in classes 26 and 28. The Wood Memorial Trophy Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 28 – Primary School Choirs (P5 and under)
For singers in Primary 5 and under from a school (see regulation 9) not performing in class 26.
Test Pieces:
- (a) Callers Arthur Benjamin (Boosey & Hawkes)
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 29 – Primary School Choirs (P1 and 2)
For singers in Primary 1 and 2 from a school (see regulation 9) not performing in classes 26-28.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 30 – Primary School Choirs – Hymn Singing
For singers from a primary school (see regulation 9). The Ian Barrie Certificate may be awarded.
Test Pieces:
- (a) All things bright and beautiful (tune: Royal Oak), to be sung in unison.
- (b) Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of one contrasting hymn or sacred song.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 31 – Primary School Choirs – Scots Song
For singers from a primary school (see regulation 9).
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any two song arrangements from the New Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Oxford Scottish Song Book (OUP), The Saltire Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press) or The Saltire Two Part Scottish Song Book (Hardie Press).
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 32 – Primary School Choirs (non-competitive)
For singers from a primary school (see regulation 9) not performing in classes 26-31. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Pieces: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of two contrasting songs. If a song is to be sung in Gaelic, a literal translation of the words must be provided for the adjudicator.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 33 – Action Songs (non-competitive)
For performers from nurseries, playgroups or primaries 1 and 2 not performing in class 221. Performers will receive an adjudication but no comparison will be made between performances.
Test Piece: Own choice of song(s) (see regulations 19-25) – not to exceed 4 minutes.
Entry fee: £30.00
Class 34 – Gilbert & Sullivan Vocal Ensembles
For unconducted vocal ensembles with any combination of voices.
Test Piece: Own choice (see regulations 19-25) of any Gilbert & Sullivan ensemble or chorus.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 35 – Vocal Ensembles – Open
For unconducted ensembles of 3 to 16 singers.
Test Piece: Own choice of music (see regulations 19-25) – not to exceed 10 minutes.
Entry fee: £35.00
Class 36 – Intermediate Vocal Ensembles
For unconducted ensembles of 3 to 16 singers aged 18 and under.
Test Piece: Own choice of music (see regulations 19-25) – not to exceed 8 minutes.
Entry fee: £30.00
Class 37 – Junior Vocal Ensembles
For unconducted ensembles of 3 to 16 singers aged 13 and under.
Test Piece: Own choice of music (see regulations 19-25) – not to exceed 6 minutes.
Entry fee: £30.00