It will introduce musical concepts and focus on perceptive listening to music as it exists in the world. This course is designed for music students or anyone desiring to learn the basics of music and to develop or improve skills in reading and noting music. It includes pitch and rhythmic notation, basic keyboard, key signatures, beginning melody and harmonization. Concert Band is dedicated to the rehearsal of a wide variety of music for one-two performances a semester. They may play for athletic events and parades also.
Rehearsals are twice a week.
Concert Choir is dedicated to performing a wide variety of music in one-two concerts per semester. Group rehearsals are three times a week. Understanding of musical elements and the theory of written music. Music notation, rhythm and harmony are stressed. Aural training in sight singing, intervals, melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation.