AP Music Theory

AP Music Theory (Grades 11-12, MUST be concurrently enrolled in choir, band, orchestra, OR taking private lessons on an instrument - including guitar and piano)

From the College Board website: The ultimate goal of an AP Music Theory course is to develop a student's ability to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materials and processes of music that are heard or presented in a score. The achievement of these goals may best be approached by initially addressing fundamental aural, analytical, and compositional skills using both listening and written exercises. Building on this foundation, the course should progress to include more creative tasks, such as the harmonization of a melody by selecting appropriate chords, composing a musical bass line to provide two-voice counterpoint, or the realization of figured-bass notation. For more information visit: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-music-theory/course-details

Students who enroll in this course must also be concurrently enrolled in band, choir, orchestra, or taking private lessons on an instrument (brass, woodwind, strings, guitar, piano). It is important that students taking this course have a basic understanding of the following concepts and terms before they enter the class: key signatures, time signatures, rhythmic notation (quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes), and the pitches of the treble and bass staves. In short, students must know how to already read modern music notation. Students will be encouraged, but not required, to take the AP Music Theory Exam in May of that school year.