Dalcroze Musical Arts

Tuesday September 15, 2025 through May 2027 - See calendar on website for more details.

​AD Advanced Placement I:

• Rhythm Skills
• Simple and Compound Meters with all beat values through the 2nd Subdivision and the 2nd Multiple
• Conducting, articulating, and dictating rhythms in Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters (both Simple and Compound)
• Off-beat Syncopation, Metric Syncopation, and Patterns of Syncopation
• Hemiola
• Beat equals Beat and Division equals Division Metric changes
• Augmentation and Diminution in polyrhythmic relationships
• Improvisation of rhythmic patterns
• Dictation of basic level rhythmic patterns and phrases 
• Solfège and Harmony Skills
• All major keys and their scales through 7 sharps and 7 flats (sung and written)
• All minor keys and their scales (natural, harmonic, and melodic) through 7 sharps and 7 flats (sung and written)
• Chord quality and function along with Chord descriptors
• All varieties of triads and their inversions (sung and written)
• All varieties of 7th chords (sung and written)
• Sight-singing that is mostly scalar, arpeggiates the tonic and the dominant with the occasional neighbor tone. We sing using scale degree numbers for function and letter names for pitch. 
• Introductory Harmonic Analysis using Roman Numeral and Figured Bass with music from the standard repertoire and simple 4-part chorales.
• Basic harmonization techniques and chord progressions
• Improvisation of melodic patterns and motifs
• Basic analysis of simple forms: Binary form, Ternary form, Song form