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Course Title: Chamber Singers Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 105630 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Prior participation in curricular choir and selection by audition Open to 10, 11, 12
Grades:
Description: Chamber Singers is a highly select ensemble dedicated to choral music written for mixed voices. The course
provides the opportunity for the advanced singer to learn and perform a more challenging and diverse repertoire. Emphasis
will be placed on tone production, musicality, sight-reading, and developing the advanced singer. Attendance at rehearsals
and concert performances is required for those who select this course.
Course Title: Women’s Ensemble Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 105640 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Prior participation in curricular choir and selection by audition Open to 10, 11, 12
Grades:
Description: Women’s Ensemble is a highly select ensemble dedicated to choral music written for treble voices in two,
three, and four parts. This class encompasses a large area of challenging repertoire and sight-reading is essential.
Emphasis is placed on tone production, musicality, and developing the advanced singer. Attendance at rehearsals and
concert performances is required for those who select this course.
Course Title: Harmony & Theory Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 105710 Term(s) Semester
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Ability to read music in both treble and bass clef Open to 10, 11, 12
Grades:
Description: The purpose of Harmony and Theory is to give students a better understanding of the mechanics of music
and to provide special preparation for those students who intend to study music further. A student need not, however, be
planning a music career to take the class. Piano background is helpful but not necessary.
Course Title: Music Technology Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 105720 Term(s) Semester
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Ability to read sheet music Open to 9, 10, 11,
Grades: 12
Description: Music Technology is a course designed to introduce students to the basic programs and techniques used in
the process of creating and recording music. Class activities include software introduction, music composition, recording
and mixing of sounds. Computer and piano background are helpful but not necessary.
Course Title: Beginner Piano Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 105730 Term(s) Semester
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): No prior piano experience Open to 9, 10, 11,
Grades: 12
Description: Piano is a course designed to introduce the student to the proper playing of the piano and simple song
performance. Music notation, hand position and rhythmic accuracy are emphasized. This course is for students who have
had no prior piano experience.
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