Interested students should review the Guidelines for Honors Level Credit Music Performance Classes and consult with their instructor prior to enrolling. All courses are valid for fulfilling the Fine Art graduation requirement. The main objective of this advanced course is the development of music literacy. Students experience melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation, keyboard harmony, and sight singing.
Students also learn how to arrange music for various combinations of voices.
The elements of music are stressed through emphasis on music terminology, notation, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, and beginning part writing. Students may prepare for the AP Music Theory exam by special arrangement with the instructor. No audition is required and you may be placed by the director in this choir if you have not acquired sufficient skills to become a member of one of the auditioned groups. Repertoire consists of music from various cultures and styles from moderately easy to more difficult music focusing on learning to maintain individual vocal lines in 3 and 4 part music. This advanced performing ensemble is by audition only.