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Performing Arts

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6th Grade Chorus

 
Course Description:
Sixth - Grade Choir offers the opportunity to participate in a vocal music program dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in music through performance. Students participate in daily rehearsals. Student perform 3 evening concerts during the school year. 
Enduring Understandings:
  1. The performing arts provide a window to a world of emotional, abstract and creative experiences.
  2. The educated listener or observer is able to critique a performance in terms of the indigenous elements of that particular art form.
  3. The performing arts reflect culture, values, and history.
  4. Becoming a performing artist takes more than talent - It takes perseverance and dedication through intricate training.
  5. Affirmation of a performer’s success is a personal journey.
  6. Breaking existing artistic norms often gives rise to new forms of expression.
 
Essential Questions:  

What elements are required to create a proper vocal sound?

student and conductor play in the musical interpretation of a composition? What musical elements are required to perform a composition as a composer intended?

What roles do the student and conductor play in the musical interpretation of a composition?
 

 

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