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Fine Arts
Music Courses
Introduction to Music AP Music Theory
Theory Grades 10-12
Course Number 581
Grades 9-12 Full Year Course - 1 credit
Course Number 580 Prerequisite: None
Full Year Course – 0.5 credit Estimated Fee: $46.00 and AP Test Registration
Prerequisite: None Recommended For: College Bound/Technical
Estimated Fee: None Education
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical Career: A
Education
Career: A With recommendations from and the
approval of the College Board, the Advanced
Intro to Music Theory is a semester-long Placement Music Theory course work
course designed for students of any musical models a college music class.
background or interest--even with little or no
prior music training. By the end of this In an AP Music Theory course, students are
course, students will be able to: read and required to read, notate, write, sing, and
write basic musical notation; compose, listen to music. Students will learn basic
translate by ear, and play basic chord musical language and grammar including
progressions on the piano; hear and note reading, musical notation, harmonic
transcribe intervals, melodies, and harmonic analysis, and part writing which will lead to
progressions from any genre of music, from a thorough understanding of music
classical to classic rock. The course is composition and music theory. Students
designed to provide students a greater will also recognize the development of
understanding and appreciation for the music from a historical and cultural
creation of music. Those who wish to learn perspective and extend musical awareness
more can continue on to the AP Music beyond music currently familiar to the
Theory course after completion. student. Students enrolled in this course are
required to take the A.P. exam in May
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