Beginning Music Courses
923300 - Beginning Band (Optional Offering)
BEG BAND
In Beginning Band, you learn how to play a brass, woodwind, or percussion instrument and develop your music-reading skills. You practice with the class to improve your playing, focusing on your individual skills. Throughout the year, you perform with your class in concerts, demonstrating the skills you have learned as a group. This course leads to the intermediate or advanced/artist band. There are some after-school practices and performances. Those are required and graded.
928200 - Mixed Chorus
MS MX CHORUS
In Beginning Mixed Chorus, you learn how to sing and develop your music-reading skills. You practice to improve your singing, focusing on your individual skills. Throughout the year, you will perform with your class in concerts, demonstrating the skills you have learned as a group. This course leads to the intermediate or advanced/artist band. There are some after-school practices and performances. Those are required and graded.
924500 - Beginning Guitar (This is offered at Kecoughtan High School)
MS GUITAR I
In Beginning Guitar, you learn how to play the guitar and develop your music-reading skills. You practice to improve your playing, focusing on your individual skills. Throughout the year, you perform with your class in concerts, demonstrating the skills you have learned as a group. This course leads to the intermediate or advanced/artist guitar ensemble. There are some after-school practices and performances. Those are required and graded.
Intermediate Music Courses
923400 - Concert Band
MS CON BAND
In Concert Band, you use your previous experience in middle school or high school band to play more complicated and fun music. Throughout the year, you perform in concerts and special events, showing off the skills you have learned as a group. You will have the opportunity to perform solos, audition for honors ensembles, and move into the advanced/artist band. Students in concert band can also participate in the marching band. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
928300 - Concert Choir
MS CON CHOIR
In Concert Choir, you use your previous experience in middle school or high school chorus to sing more complicated and fun music. Throughout the year, you will perform in concerts and special events, showing off the skills you have learned as a group. You will have the opportunity to perform solos, audition for honors ensembles, and move into the advanced/artist chorus. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
924510 - Guitar II (This is offered at Kecoughtan High School.)
MS GUITAR II
In Guitar II, you use your previous experience in guitar to play more complicated and fun music. Throughout the year, you will perform in concerts and special events, showing off the skills you have learned as a group. You will have the opportunity to perform solos and move into the advanced/artist guitar ensemble. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
Advanced/ Artist Music Courses
923410- Symphonic Band (A student can earn honors credit if all requirements are completed.)
MS SYM BAND
In Symphonic Band, you perform with your school's most accomplished musicians both in the school and the community. You can advance your individual and group skills and work with musicians just like you. You will have the opportunity to audition for principal player, regional orchestra, all-district, all-state, and college scholarships. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
929600 - Percussion (A percussion student playing in the Symphonic Band can earn honors credit if all requirements are completed.)
MS PERCUSS INS
In Percussion, you use your previous percussion experience in middle school or high school to play more complicated and fun music. Students in percussion can play with the marching band, concert band, symphonic band, percussion ensemble, and/or jazz band. This separate course focuses on developing your individual skills and is combined with those groups. You will have the opportunity to audition for principal player, regional orchestra, all-district, all-state, and college scholarships. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
924100 - Jazz Band
MS JAZZ BAND
In Jazz Band, you add the style of Jazz music to your reading and playing skills performing in the school and community. There are opportunities to learn advanced/artist level knowledge and skills in music theory and perform solos beyond what you have learned in Symphonic Band or Percussion. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
N/A - Marching Band
Marching Band is a co-curricular after-school offering. You add marching and leadership to your playing skills and represent your school in the community. You participate in competitions, football games, parades, and other fall community events. Marching Band students also have opportunities to audition for leadership roles and college scholarships.
Marching Band is like a lab to the band class. Students are required to be enrolled in a band class to participate in the marching band. However, students are not required to be in the marching band to enroll in a band class. Middle School music students may march up in the high school marching band with the recommendation of their middle school music teacher. After-school practices and performances are required and included in the band class grade.
928000 - Small Vocal Ensemble (A student can earn honors credit if all requirements are completed.)
MS SM VOC
In Small Vocal Ensembles, you perform with your school's most accomplished musicians both in the school and community. You can advance your individual and group skills and work with musicians just like you. You will have the opportunity to audition for solos, honors chorus, all-district, all-state, and college scholarships. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
924520 - Guitar III (KHS) (A student can earn honors credit if all requirements are completed.)
MS GUITAR III
In Guitar III/Ensemble, you perform with your school's most accomplished musicians both in the school and community. You can advance your individual and group skills and work with musicians just like you. You will have the opportunity to audition for solos and honors ensembles. After-school practices and performances are required and graded.
Non-Performance Music Courses
929680 - Audio Production and Recording I-Beginning Level I
AUDIO PRODUCTION & RECORDING I
This introductory course emphasizes recording, mixing, and mastering sound, with an additional focus on marketing, production, and many other pivotal aspects of music and audio production. Students will explore the physics of sound, learn about job opportunities in audio production, and navigate the legal workings of the music and sound business. The course will provide hands-on experience in digital recording and many other aspects of music and sound production.
929690 - Audio Production and Recording II-Beginning Level II (This includes a performance course. It is double-blocked with a band, chorus, or guitar performance class of the appropriate skill level. See the above performance classes. Students learn the basics of playing or singing and record the ensembles. Speak with the music teacher.)
AUDIO PRODUCTION & RECORDING II
This second-year course builds on Audio Production and Recording I to emphasize recording, mixing, and mastering sound, with an additional focus on marketing, production, and many other pivotal aspects of music and audio production. Students will understand the physics of sound, learn about job opportunities in audio production, and navigate the legal workings of the music and sound business. The course will provide hands-on experience in digital recording, and many other aspects of music and sound production.
929671 - Music Production (This course is offered through the AoH at Hampton High School.)
Music Production is offered through AoH Technology Academy at Hampton High School. This course includes a capstone project along with workplace readiness and certification opportunities. Audio Production and Recording I and II are prerequisites.
Dual Enrollment Music Course
598900 - Dual Enrollment MUS 101 (This semester long course is offered at Bethel High School.)
DE MUS 101 FUND OF MUSIC
In Fundamentals of Music, you will develop the ability to read and identify basic fundamentals of music notation, learn about major and minor scales, chords and basic harmonic progressions, and cover basic ear training and keyboard exercises.
598901 - Dual Enrollment MUS 121 (This semester long course is offered at Bethel High School.)
DE MUS 121 MUSIC IN SOCIETY
In Music In Society, you will explore the language of music through an introduction to basic elements, forms, and styles across time. You will be acquainted with composers’ lives and influential creative individualities, discovering representative works and milestones in Western society. You will develop techniques for listening analytically and critically. You will review historical development and significance of art music within the context of evolving societal structures.
AP Music Theory Course
922600 - AP Music Theory
MS AP MUSIC THEORY
In AP Music Theory, you advance your understanding of how music works by listening to a wide variety of music, reading musical scores, writing music, and singing. The exam will test your understanding of the musical concepts covered in the course units, including your ability to analyze performed and notated music and to sing melodies from a written score (sight sing). You will complete the multiple-choice and written free-response sections on paper, and record your sight-singing free response on a device supplied by the testing school.