Bella Voce
Course Description:
Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Prerequisite: audition and at least one year of choir.
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
This choir is an advanced treble ensemble. Placement in this ensemble is by audition. Advanced singing techniques and musicianship will be emphasized through a wide variety of choral literature. This choir will perform 3 or 4 mandatory concerts (fall, holiday, mid winter, and spring) each year as well as various other opportunities to perform. Performance in the evening concerts is mandatory. Fee is $15 per year.
Enduring Understandings:
Essential Questions:
Course Units / Topics of Study:
Varied choral literature, appropriate vocal production, music theory.
Course Description:
Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Prerequisite: audition and at least one year of choir.
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
This choir is an advanced treble ensemble. Placement in this ensemble is by audition. Advanced singing techniques and musicianship will be emphasized through a wide variety of choral literature. This choir will perform 3 or 4 mandatory concerts (fall, holiday, mid winter, and spring) each year as well as various other opportunities to perform. Performance in the evening concerts is mandatory. Fee is $15 per year.
Enduring Understandings:
- Artists communicate sensibility and meaning through visual & performing arts.
- Artists manipulate their medium(s) to construct meaning.
- An artist's ability to listen and interpret affects his or her ability to understand the art form.
- A level of proficiency is necessary to communicate an artist's intent.
- An artist's use of skills and techniques is a continual, repetitive learning process.
- Artists present finished products or performance.
- The critique process can lead to heightened awareness of aesthetics.
- Critiques promote the use of art vocabulary.
- The critique process is a valuable analysis of what takes place intuitively.
Essential Questions:
- How do form, content and context express and influence meaning?
- How do elements (nouns) and principles (adjectives) facilitate the creative process
- How do skill and technique enable the creative process?
- How do we use critique to inform our art?
Course Units / Topics of Study:
Varied choral literature, appropriate vocal production, music theory.
