Intermediate Chorus

Full Year (19274)
Semester (19275)
Level
Middle School
Content Area
Arts Education
Grade(s)
7

<p>Students will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Continue to develop skills fostered in Beginning Chorus.</li>
<li>Understand and respond to music notation in treble clef.</li>
<li>Learn about the adolescent voice change and how to adjust for those changes in range and tone color.</li>
<li>Develop the ability to maintain part independence when singing in two and three-part harmony, cappella.</li>
<li>Develop the ear and voice to tune accurately to a pitch and within a chord.</li>
<li>Create simple rhythmic or melodic improvisations, 2-4 measures in length.</li>
<li>Respond to conducting gesture for fermata, accelerando and ritardando.</li>
<li>Demonstrate learning through appropriate performances and presentations of Grade II or III literature, including solo performance as appropriate.</li>
<li>Sight read at Level I.</li>
</ul>

Schools
Gunston Middle School
Kenmore Middle School
Dorothy Hamm Middle School
Swanson Middle School
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Williamsburg Middle School