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