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Music Ensemble

Semester / 0.5 Credit / Grade 9 - 12

Prerequisites:

Basic note-reading proficiency is required and students must be able to read music. Successful completion of Intermediate Instrumental Music or at least two years singing or playing experience on primary instrument to be studied is required for admittance.

This elective course for students in grades 9-12 gives students the opportunity to develop proficiency with their voice or on an instrument with which they have previous playing experience. Instruments may be from the string, wind, brass or percussion families of the concert band or symphony orchestra. Musicianship is developed through study of technical exercises and performance repertoire (music), theory and history. Students enrolled in the course are required to participate in all concert performances. This class can be taken repeatedly.