MUSIC APPRECIATION CLASS

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MUSIC APPRECIATION CLASS
Music Appreciation Class is offered as an elective class to both 8th and 9th grade students.*
8th grade students will receive 1 elective credit; 8th grade students will not receive Fine Arts credit
9th grade students will receive 1/2 elective credit and 1/2 Fine Arts credit

Students will study the following music areas:
1) BASIC MUSIC ELEMENTS: pitch - melody and harmony, time - rhythm and meter, timbre - sounds, notation, form
2) INSTRUMENTS - band and orchestra
3) PLAYING INSTRUMENTS - chimes, piano, recorder, guitar
4) AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE - Broadway musicals
5) PERIODS OF MUSIC - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern/20th Century

REQUIREMENTS
GRADES - Basic Music Elements, Instruments of the Orchestra and playing instruments, American Musical Theatre, Periods of Music, Guests, Other 25% - PARTICIPATION in class each day 25% - PRACTICE and PERFORMANCES with instruments 25% - PROJECTS and ASSIGNMENTS both individual and group (includes theory workbook, listening guides) 25% - WRITTEN TESTS
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HOMEWORK / TEXTBOOK LINK
Music Appreciation classes will occasionally have homework assignments. Most class requirements are met during class through listening activities, times of discussion and various writing assignments including tests.

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JANUARY REVIEW OF BASIC ELEMENTS (of Western Music): sound (melody, harmony, timbre), time (meter, rhythm), structure (form, notation, presentation) all of these elements will tie in to AFrican / multi-cultural music; VIDEO - STOMP The Science of Sound; acoustics; physical hearing Classical Music Mozart Projects (January 27, 1756 - Mozart's birthday); TIME IN LAB LES MIS - Musical Theatre Family Music Survey A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA The Lion King, African Children's Choir Back to Top FEBRUARY - BLACK HISTORY MONTH Denyce Graves - opera 3 projects: 1) Required musicians: Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Marian Anderson & Leontyne Price, Quincy Jones 2) Alabama musicians: Nat King Cole, The Commodores, W.C. Handy, 3) Personal selection upon approval: Will Smith, The Temptations, 4) GUESTS: Dyann Robinson from AU Rosephanye Powell from AU Movie - Amazing Grace (John Newton - hymnody, slave trade, slavery today) MARCH - Music in Our Schools Month Faculty Survey; Jazz Studies APRIL JAZZ Studies; AFRICAN studies; "THE LION KING" in Atlanta; hip-hop studies MAY Back to Top
AUGUST - AMERICAN MUSICAL: OLIVER! (A Knight's Tale) PERIODS OF MUSIC: Music of the Middle Ages ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: Pitch, Melody and Harmony MUSIC THEORY: Basic Music Notation (staff, clef, note names) TESTS: Music of the Middle Ages SEPTEMBER - AMERICAN MUSICAL: WEST SIDE STORY PERIODS OF MUSIC: n/a ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: Rhythm, note/rest values; meter; time signatures MUSIC THEORY: Basic/complex rhythms (reading & writing) OTHER: STOMP OUT LOUD video; HAND CHIMES TESTS: Basics of Rhythm OCTOBER - AMERICAN MUSICAL: The Music Man ? PERIODS OF MUSIC: n/a ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: Texture and Form MUSIC THEORY: complete rhythms OTHER: use DSO's emotions in music; Introduction to Instruments of the Orchestra / Band; Wynton Marsalis Video: Sousa to Satchmo; DSO's families of the orchestra; Fantasia 2000; Halloween poems and pictures TESTS: Instruments of the orchestra Back to Top NOVEMBER - AMERICAN MUSICAL: PERIODS OF MUSIC: Baroque ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: Form MUSIC THEORY: Hand chimes OTHER: Pachelbel's Canon DECEMBER Greensleeves MESSIAH; Young Messiah Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker on "Classics for Kids" LES MIS Music Faculty Survey
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