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COURSE DESCRIPTION

• This full year course offers students instruction in piano keyboard and the fundamentals of music including basic skills in notation, ear training, aural dictation and sight singing.

COURSE OBJECTIVES • The students will be able to

identify, notate and perform (clap, sing and play)

Course Content

Scales and Key Signatures

• Identification and notation of Major and minor scales on the grand staff using accidentals.

• Performance (playing and singing) of major and minor scales

• Performance (playing and singing with solfege syllables) the chromatic scale

• Identification and notation of major and minor key signatures

• Reproduction of the Circle of Fifths

Technology• Students will use the Sibelius notation

software to write, edit and compose music.

• Other software in use: Musition (theory), Auralia (ear training)

Assessment• Dictation• Piano Performance in class• Journal (all written material – tests, projects, research

papers, oral presentations)• Sight-singing• Ear Training • Written Tests & Quizzes• Oral Challenge (student must be able to explain his/her

work)• Original Compositions on Sibelius & manuscript

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