Advanced Chorus

Full Year (19285)
Level
Middle School
Content Area
Arts Education
Grade(s)
8

Students will:

  • Understand and respond to music notation, in both treble and bass clef.
  • Develop the skill to sing an extended range, and with greater part independence, demonstrating these skills as a member of the ensemble.
  • Develop the ability to make refined pitch matching adjustments in a cappella singing of three and four art literature.
  • Create simple rhythmic or melodic improvisations, 4-8 measures in length.
  • Respond to conducting gestures involving changes of tempo, articulation, and style.
  • Demonstrate learning through appropriate performances and presentations of Grade III-IV literature, including solo performance as appropriate.
  • Sight Read two grade levels below concert literature.
Schools
Gunston Middle School
Kenmore Middle School
Dorothy Hamm Middle School
Swanson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Williamsburg Middle School