Music
The CHS Music program provides students the opportunity to create, perform, and respond to music through a variety of experiences and activities. Music offers unique learning opportunities to explore individual creativity, artistic expression, and a more in-depth understanding of past and present cultures in our diverse world community.
Courses
AP Music Theory
Units
Elements of Music
- Students Identify by sight and aurally and perform all major and minor ascending and descending intervals using solfege and various rhythms in simple and compound meters using number counting.
- Students sing in diatonic major and minor in treble and bass clefs using solfege syllables.
- Students dictate diatonic major and minor tonalities and compound and simple meter melodies in treble and bass clef.
- Students identify by sight and aurally and perform major, minor, and pentatonic scales.
- Students identify by sight and aurally and compose triads and seventh chords in all inversions.
Diatonic Harmony
- Students identify and compose note to note counterpoints and identify and compose various melodic embellishments.
- Students identify and compose chorale style soprano and bass lines and identify aurally basic phrase structure including cadences in SATB style.
- Students identify predominant, dominant, and tonic tonalities.
- Students identify 64 different chords and identify and compose voice leading chords. Students identify and compose SATB style part writing using figured bass and Roman numerals.
Chromatic Harmony and Form
Composition
Choir
Units
Standard Based Learning
- Students sing with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature.
- Students sing music written in four parts with and without accompaniment while demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.
- Students improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts and rhythmic and melodic variations in major and minor keys over given chord progressions.
- Students demonstrate the ability to read an instrumental or vocal score of up to four staves by describing how the elements of music are used.
- Students analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of elements of music and expressive devices.
- Students make informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances.
Enhancement of Vocal Skills
Choral Repertoire for Concerts and Cabaret
- Using all choral concert literature, students identify all dynamic markings and evaluate the text, focusing on how to pronounce consonants with clarity.
- Students apply this knowledge of dynamics and diction through their performance of each piece.
- Students analyze the tempo, meter, and key signatures of choral concert literature.
- Students analyze and identify various key signatures, meters, rhythms, and pitches of choral concert literature.
- Students apply this knowledge through performing sight reading examples. Using all choral literature from the winter concert, students determine the style and time period of each piece through analysis and investigation from various musical sources.
High School Band
Units
- Empowered Citizen - Semester 1 Fall Performances
- Instrumental Band Literature - Semester 1 Concert
- Instrumental Band Literature - Semester 2 Concert
- Empowered Citizen - Semester 2 Performances
Empowered Citizen - Semester 1 Fall Performances
- Students demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Students develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.
- Students demonstrate an understanding of expressive intent by connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.
- Students demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.
Instrumental Band Literature - Semester 1 Concert
- Students demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Students develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.
- Students demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.
- Students explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.
Instrumental Band Literature - Semester 2 Concert
- Students demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Students develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.
- Students demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.
- Students explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.
Empowered Citizen - Semester 2 Performances
- Students demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Students develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.
- Students demonstrate an understanding of expressive intent by connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.
- Students demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.
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