AP Music Theory

AP Music THeory Course Description

This course is designed for students who intend to advance their musical knowledge and possibly pursue music as a career. Music Theory is a required class for all music degrees. This course is also designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement Test in May.

Throughout the course, students will learn how music is put together (the fundamentals of music), how aural discrimination (ear training) and visual discrimination (sight singing) will help prepare the student for the world of music, how the application of learned concepts can be applied to performance, and how composition is a learned skill that needs practice and application. While the AP Test places particular emphasis on the style and theory of 18th-Century European musicians, other styles of music will also be explored.