Jr. High Music
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Grade 6 Curriculum Snapshot (One semester)
- Continue to refine music reading
skills through singing, instrumental playing and
composition
- Study the major American composers
of the 20th century and their musical styles
- Leonard Bernstein
- Aaron Copland
- George Gershwin
- Ferde Grofe
- Alan Hovhannes
- Scott Joplin
- John Philip Sousa
- Times and
music of one of the above composers
- Continue liturgical sing; participate
as a "choir" at one all-school Mass
Grade 7 Curriculum Snapshot (One semester)
- Study the liturgical year
and its music by examining the church seasons, scriptural
readings and appropriate
music. Construct a liturgical calendar
- Explore the music of the Baroque
period (1600 - 1750); its composers, music and
development of the
modern orchestra
- J.S. Bach
- G.F. Handel
- Jacques Mouret
- Johannes Pachebel
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Begin the study of American
jazz - its origins, instrumentation and musicians
- Continue liturgical sing ;
participate as a "choir" at one all-school Mass
Grade 8 Curriculum Snapshot (One semester)
- Explore
the musical history of church music from its foundations in Jewish worship
practices through the middle ages, the reformation and counter-reformation
period, to
the music of the Vatican II church
- Explore
the major types of music used in church worship: chant masses
and
responses, polyphonic masses and motets, religious hymns of the last five hundred
years, as well as contemporary music
- Study the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Vatican II) and its implications
for
worship today
- Continue
the refinement of liturgical sing; participate as a "choir" at one
all-school
Mass
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