AP Music Theory/Musicianship II

As a musician at University High School, your curriculum includes a four-course series on the historical and theoretical development of music throughout the ages.  This in-depth study will allow you to see the music you perform everyday from the eyes of the composers that created them.  By studying the compositional and performance practices of each Era, you will gain a deeper understanding of how the collaborative art of music functions and remains vibrant in our ears today.

The AP Music Theory course focuses on concepts and skills emphasized within introductory collegiate music theory courses, with the goal of helping students become sophisticated and thoughtful music listeners, performers, and composers.  AP Music Theory students learn to recognize, understand, describe, and produce the basic elements and processes of performed and notated music from the Common Practice Period (18th Century Compositional Practice). To become proficient with these skills, students need to consistently practice applying course concepts through aural analysis, score analysis, sight-singing, dictation, and composition.