Beginning Band Chorus Graded performances required. Graded performances required. Students will begin to use more articulations and This class is open to students who demonstrate bowings, perform scales and music in more musical proficiency in vocal techniques. Students difficult key signatures, demonstrate shifting and must have prior experience in middle and/or high vibrato, and perform music at an intermediate school choral programs. Required activities level of difficulty (VBODA Solo Repertoire, Level include winter and spring performances, 2-4). Ensemble skills will become more developed workshops, and festivals located both at the as students participate in band and orchestral school and outside locations. As a performance settings. Students will describe concepts common class, attendance at all of the previously to music and other disciplines, and will be mentioned events is factored in the student’s involved in discussing various cultures, styles, grade. composers, and historical periods.
Intermediate Band - Concert Band Guitar I Teacher Recommendation Graded performances Graded performances required. required. Students will begin to use more Students enrolled in Guitar I class will learn a articulations and bowings, perform scales and variety of guitar skills. These skills include rhythm music in more difficult key signatures, guitar, melody guitar, bass guitar, guitar demonstrate shifting and vibrato, and perform ensemble skills, arpeggios, scales, bare chords, music at an intermediate level of difficulty power chords, scales and more. No prior (VBODA Solo Repertoire, Level 2-4). Ensemble knowledge of the Guitar is needed for this class, skills will become more developed as students just the desire to learn about the guitar. participate in band and orchestral settings. Students will describe concepts common to music and other disciplines, and will be involved in discussing various cultures, styles, composers, and historical periods. *Not Offered for the 2019-2020 School Year* Advanced Band - Symphonic Guitar II Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation Graded Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation Graded performances required. performances required. Marching Band required. This class is open to Students enrolled in Guitar II will learn a variety students who demonstrate musical proficiency of guitar skills. These skills include Roman on a band instrument (woodwind, brass, or numeral chords, scale skills, first position percussion). Required activities include winter notation, right hand and left hand classical and spring performances as well as participation technique, upper position playing, blues, jazz and in the marching band, which includes a two-week pop studies, music theory and string bending preparatory “band-camp” during the summer, techniques. after-school rehearsals, and performances at all home basketball and football games and parades. As a performance class, attendance at all of the previously mentioned events is factored in the student’s grade. Music Appreciation Percussion Ensemble This course introduces students to the history, Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation theory, and genres of music. The course explores Graded performances required. The Percussion the history of music, from the surviving examples Ensemble is a small musical ensemble consisting of rudimentary musical forms through to of only percussion instruments. Students study a contemporary pieces from around the world. The wide variety of music literature and perform on a course explores the relationship between music wide range of percussion instruments. They and social movements and reveals how the increase their individual sticking technique along emergent global society and the prominence of with learning complex rhythms and ensemble the Internet are making musical forms more balance. It is expected that students will practice accessible worldwide. on a daily basis. *Not Offered for the 2019-2020 School Year* *Not Offered for the 2019-2020 School Year*