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Fine Arts
Music Courses
AP Music Theory Chorale
Grades 10-12 Grades 9-12
Course Number 581 Course Number 597
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: Audition
Estimated Fee: AP Test Registration Estimated Fee: None
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical Recommended For: College Bound/Technical
Education Education
Career: A Career: A
With recommendations from and the approval
of the College Board, the Advanced Chorale is an advanced singing group
Placement Music Theory course work models consisting of students with prior choral
a college music class. experience. Entrance into this ensemble is by
In an AP Music Theory course, students are audition or at director discretion. All
required to read, notate, write, sing, and listen performances and rehearsals are mandatory.
to music. Students will learn basic musical This choir works on more advanced musical
language and grammar including note concepts through sight-reading and the
reading, musical notation, harmonic rehearsal and performance of sophisticated
analysis, and part writing which will lead to a musical literature. The Chorale is made up of
thorough understanding of music members who strive to convey a meaningful
composition and music theory. Students will musical aesthetic through themselves for
also recognize the development of music their audiences. This is done through a focus
from a historical and cultural perspective and on the interpretation of texts and the
extend musical awareness beyond music conveying of this meaning through
currently familiar to the student. Students exceptional diction, dynamics, and phrasing.
enrolled in this course are required to take the The choir performs evening concerts in
A.P. exam in May school and the metropolitan area, which may
include competitions and festivals. These
evening commitments are a required part of
the course.
By meeting additional requirements, juniors
and seniors will be able to obtain honors
credit for this course. The various options for
earning the honors credit will be presented to
students in the spring of the preceding school
year.
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