Course Content-2

All areas of course content are taught throughout the year in a developmental continuum, which gradually increases in depth and breadth.

1. Compositions are presented which are of sufficient difficulty to provide challenges for all students. These compositions provide the basis for teaching all of the following content areas:

2. Music theory includes the study of notation, music terminology, ear training, interval recognition, and the piano keyboard.

3. Music history provides the social and cultural setting, which influenced the compositions being sung.

4. Vocal techniques includes the study of breathing, vowel formation, articulation, consonant formation, and application to the compositions being sung.

5. Sight singing is an ongoing process of increasing auditory and vocal acuity, both in melodic and harmonic part singing.

6. Performances decorum and rehearsal discipline provide the basis for a sophisticated, mature, aesthetically pleading presentation of the composition being studied.

7. Ensemble performance techniques include the maintaining of a vocal part and the recognition of the manner in which each part fits with the others with regard to balance, blend, and timbre.

8. The Choir studies between 15 and 30 compositions each year, from a variety of eras and styles.