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Mahomet-Seymour Schools

 Curriculum

Music – Honors Band & Chorus

 

Performance

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate a high level of individual pedagogical skill on their chosen instrument, including: beautiful tone, correct breathing, the rise and fall of phrases, correct articulation or diction, correct musical style, and understanding about the musical meaning of the piece on All-State level material.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate a high level of individual music-reading skills at the All-State level including the playing of scales and etudes and the singing of scales, triads, and sight-singing.

 

The learner will be able to perform a solo song or piece of solo music at a high level of musical proficiency for a judge who will give a written and aural critique at the solo and ensemble contest.

 

The learner will be able to give a short (5-8 minute) lecture/presentation about the piece using PowerPoint, stating the following: historical, interpretive, formal and stylistic information about the song.

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Writing and Research

 

The learner will be able to write a 5-8 page research paper, about a musical subject that will be determined by the director, demonstrating properly developed ideas, proper organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate correct citing of quotations and crediting the ideas of others.

 

 

 

 

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Music Theory and Ear Training

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of the basic symbols of music, including: staff, clefs, ledger lines, note names.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of basic concepts of rhythm and meter, including:
note values (whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note); measures; time signature of 4/4, ¾, 6/8, 3/2; rests: whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, sixteenth rest; dots and ties: augmentation dot, tenuto tie; simple and compound meter: duple meter, triple meter, quadruple meter, simple duple meter (2/4), simple triple meter (3/4), simple quadruple meter (4/4), compound duple meter (6/8), compound triple meter (9/8), compound quadruple meter (12/8); odd meter: 5/8, 7/8, 8/8, 10/8, 11/8.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of basic symbols of pitch, including: steps and accidentals: half steps, whole steps, natural, sharp, flat, double sharp, double flat, accidental, enharmonic note.


The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of scales: major scale, natural minor, harmonic minor & melodic minor scales.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of scale degrees: tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading tone, subtonic.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of key signatures.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of intervals: minor intervals, major intervals, augmented intervals, diminished intervals, tritone.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of interval inversion.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of chords: major and minor triads, augmented and diminished triads.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of triad inversion: first inversion, second inversion.

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of Roman Numeral Analysis using the I, I, ii, ii°, iii, III, III+, IV, iv, V, v, vi, VI, vii°, VII.

 

 

 

 

 

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