Intermediate Chorus

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

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