PLACEMENT IN THIS COURSE REQUIRES APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR/IB COORDINATOR.
Informed and active musical engagement allows students to discover relationships between lived human experience and specific sound combinations and technologies, thus informing them more fully of the world around them and the nature of humanity. This course fosters curiosity and openness to both familiar and unfamiliar musical worlds.
Students learn to hear relationships of pitch in sound, pattern in rhythm, and unfolding sonic structures. At the standard level, and by recommendation, higher level, this course covers music perception, music creation, solo performance, and ensemble performance. This course provides all students with the opportunity to engage in the world of music as lifelong participants.
