Broadway HS: Grades 9-12 (Melody Mix-must be enrolled in Honors Choir)
Spotswood HS: Grades 10-12 (Chamber Choir)
Turner Ashby HS: Grades 10-12 (TA Singers)
Prerequisite: Audition only
This small select group of singers may perform vocal jazz, pop, and show choir music. They will perform in numerous concerts throughout the year including regional/ state/ national festivals/competitions. Open to the student who successfully completes an audition of sight-reading, aural skills, and a prepared. This choir sings all styles of music that are medium to advanced difficulty. Considered a touring choir, performances are held throughout the year, and this group represents our school in community, county, district, and state events.
Intermediate Level Select Chorus
(Elective) 1 Credit
Broadway HS: Grades 9-12 (Broadway Melodies)
East Rockingham: Grades (Beginning & Adv Choir)
Spotswood HS: Grades 10-12 (Peak Harmony)
Turner Ashby HS: Grades 9-12 (Mixed Choral)
Prerequisite: Audition only
Available to any student who wishes to learn and advance in choral reading. This group will perform many styles of music and participate in numerous concerts throughout the year including regional/state/national festivals/competitions. Open to the student who successfully completes an audition of sight-reading, aural skills, and a prepared piece.
This choir sings in all styles of music that are of medium difficulty. Performances are held throughout the year, and the group may represent the school in county and district events.
Select Advanced Chorus (Elective) 1 Credit
Grades 9-12
Prerequisite: Audition only
Open to the student who successfully completes an audition of sight-reading, performance, vocal warm-ups, and scholarship. This choir sings all styles of music that are medium difficult to difficult in instruction. Considered a touring choir, performances are held throughout the year. Additionally, this group represents our school in county, district, and state events.
Unselect Choirs
Chorus (Elective) 9-12 1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Concentration in music theory, sight-reading, and performance technique. Students will perform a variety of musical styles in several concerts throughout the year. Open to the student who successfully completes an audition of sight-reading, aural skills, and a prepared. This choir sings all styles of music that are medium to advanced difficulty. Considered a touring choir, performances are held throughout the year, and this group represents our school in community, county, district, and state events.
Musical Theatre Ensemble (Elective)
Grade Level: 9-12 1/2-1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Students study musical theatre and its history from inception to present day; the various technical, dramatic, music, and production aspects that go into creating musical theatre; the differences between singing and acting in straight plays, or songs versus the combination of the two.Topics include job requirements of technical theatre including lighting, set design, costume, etc.; student created, staged, performed, video taped, and critiqued musical theatre scenes; effective audition techniques; the art of movement; view recordings of musical theatre performances and perform critiques based on given criteria.
Students will create their own resume, practice the musical theatre elements of movement, drama, and music, articulate an understanding of the collaborative effort it takes to put on musical theatre, and learn about arts administration and the production aspects of a show including ticket sales, scheduling, licensing, programs/printing, sponsorships, fundraising, house management, ushering, etc
Musical Technology (Elective)
Grade Level: 9-12 1/2-1 Credit
Prerequisite: None
Students study music through the use of technology and, conversely, technological programs through the use of
music. Students will define common technological computer terms such as: digital, analog, RAM/ROM, bit/byte/KB/MB, etc.; identify parts of the computer units and their use; define MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) what it does and how it works. Student will create musical works using software programs, identify basic musical concepts such as rhythm, melody, and texture as they pertain to technology, identify different components of the music industry and business, state how the pieces work together to create the industry that serves
the current music world, and identify common software tools and programs and their use. Students will create projects that reflect their understanding of music marketing, music business/legal aspects, such as copyright, for presentation or display within the school and identify various career fields within the music industry and state details of each job description.
AP Music Theory
Grade Level: 11-12 1 Credit
Prerequisite: Music Theory/Adv Band/Choral Ens
In this course, the student will be required to read, notate, write, sing and listen to music. The development of aural skills is a primary objective of the course. The student will listen to musical works attentively and analytically, developing musical memory and the ability to articulate responses to formal, stylistic and aesthetic qualities of the works. Performance, using singing, keyboard, and the student's primary performance media, is also a part of the learning process.
**Financial assistance is available to low-income and needy students to take advanced placement exams.
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