Advance  Placement Music Theory

Course Description and Requirements

        Studies in AP Music Theory will integrate aspects of melody, harmony, texture, rhythm, form, musical analysis, elementary composition, and, to some extent, history and style.  Musicianship skills such as dictation, aural identification, sight-singing, and keyboard harmony are considered an important part of the curriculum.

        The ultimate goal of the course is to develop a student’s ability to recognize, understand, describe, and analyze the basic materials and processes of music that are either heard or presented in a score.  Aural, sight-singing, written, compositional, and analytical skills will be developed through an integrated approach using listening, performance, written, creative, and analytical exercises.

Requirements:

Journal/notebook/portfolio

homework

classwork and listening notes

concert critiques

Project  4-page paper /presentation

Concert Critiques  of live or taped performance, 15 minutes minimum: 1 each semester

Quizzes/Tests/AP exam

Participation

Classwork

Grading:  Quizzes/Tests:        25%

                Homework                20%

               Classwork                35% (includes project and presentation)

               Participation            10%

               Journal/notebook 10%