General Music
is a class that is offered for 6th grade exploratory. Students learn
about the notes on a scale, and the different notes the beats get.
Students
learn different pieces, and then get to play them on various percussion
instruments. Students also work in the piano lab.
Chorus is a year long class. Students learn songs and sing them
in concert. Students can audition for solos. There are different levels
of voices they are soprano, alto, base, and baritone. They have concerts
in the auditorium where the chorus can sing the pieces they learned for
friends, family, teachers and anyone else who wants to hear them.
Piano is a class that may be taken as a trimester class, or as
a year long rotation class. In piano, students learn how to read music,
and play it on a keyboard. Students learn some background information
about composers and they're time period. Once the students can read music,
they begin to create their own compositions and play them for the class.