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Fine Arts
Chorale Concert Choir
Grades 10-12 Grades 9-12
Course Number 597 Course Number 592
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course - 1 credit
Prerequisite: Audition Prerequisite: None
Estimated Fee: $10.00 Estimated Fee: $10.00
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical Recommended For: College Bound/Technical
Education Education
Career: A Career: A
The Chorale is Mayfield’s premier singing The Concert Choir is a mixed ensemble
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group consisting of 10 -12 grade students consisting of students singing in a high
with prior choral experience. Entrance into school choir for the first time. Admission is
this ensemble is by audition or by director voluntary on an elective basis, and passage
discretion, and all performances and fulfills the required Arts credit for
rehearsals are mandatory. This choir works graduation. Enrollment is required for any
on advanced sight-reading and musical 9th graders auditioning for the Limited
interpretation through the study of music Edition (LTD) Show Choir. Participation in
theory, history, and performance. The the Concert Choir expands basic knowledge
Chorale is made up of students who love to of music through the performance and
sing and strive to achieve high levels of appreciation of choral music. The ensemble
artistry for performance. The Chorale lays the foundation for exceptional musical
performs evening concerts at the high school performance through focuses on diction,
and the metropolitan area, which may tone production, and vowel formation, as
include competitions and festivals. These well as improving or beginning students’
evening commitments are a required part of ability to read music notation. The Concert
the course. Choir performs in no fewer than two
evening concerts per school year. These
By meeting additional requirements, juniors evening commitments are a required part of
and seniors will be able to obtain honors the course.
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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