Intermezzo
Course Description:
Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Prerequisite: none
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
Intermezzo is an intermediate ensemble for students who sing in the soprano and alto registers and are interested in further developing their ability to sing and read music. 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:
Varied choral literature, appropriate vocal production, music theory.
Course Description:
Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Prerequisite: none
Course Classification: 3 (4 by petition)
Intermezzo is an intermediate ensemble for students who sing in the soprano and alto registers and are interested in further developing their ability to sing and read music. 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?
Varied choral literature, appropriate vocal production, music theory.
