Gracenotes
Course Description:
Open to freshmen
Prerequisite: none
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
Freshman Women’s Ensemble is a beginning class for students interested in learning how to sing, read music, and become part of the BHS choral program. Students in this ensemble sing in the soprano and alto registers. Fundamental 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 freshmen
Prerequisite: none
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
Freshman Women’s Ensemble is a beginning class for students interested in learning how to sing, read music, and become part of the BHS choral program. Students in this ensemble sing in the soprano and alto registers. Fundamental 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.