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TITLE
Show Choir
TEXTBOOK
Various choral octavos
DESCRIPTION
This is an elective course for students grades ten through twelve. The class
meets daily for 44 minute class periods. Students in this class will be selected
by an audition that demonstrates their skills in music fundamentals, vocal
technique, and movement. Members are required to be enrolled in Mixed Choir,
Titan Singers, or Music Enrichment. A wide variety of show music will be
studied, as well as, advanced vocal techniques, show productions, and
choreography. The show choir will perform at school concerts, clinics,
competitions, and many community functions. Students are required attend these
performances and to purchase a show costume. Private vocal instruction, solo
performances, and participation in honor choir programs are highly encouraged.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Students will study advanced vocal techniques relating to both small ensemble
and solo performance.
2. Students will demonstrate appropriate performances practices for a variety of
show music, including jazz, Broadway, country, classic popular, and contemporary
popular styles.
3. Students will demonstrate appropriate show production techniques including
stage etiquette, blocking, public speaking, costuming, make-up, transitional
materials, and programming in a variety of public performances, concerts, and
competition situations.
4. Students will perform in fifteen to twenty public performances.
5. Students will create and execute authentic and appropriate choreography and
staging.
6. Students will analyze and evaluate their performances and the performances of
others.
7. Students will demonstrate proper concert performance decorum and audience
etiquette.
8. Students will study the elements of music – melody, harmony, rhythm, tone
color, and form.
9. Students will have the opportunity to perform as soloists.
10. Students will describe the relationships between music, other disciplines,
history, and cultures.
11. Students will demonstrate leadership and citizenship skills in the context
of working cooperatively in a small group to create a successful product.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Students will describe music heard using an appropriate vocabulary.
2. Students will define and use appropriate working music vocabulary.
3. Students will write evaluations of musical performances.
4. Students will present course work in a written portfolio.
MULTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
1. Students will perform music from a variety of cultures as it relates to
contemporary show music.
