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

Advanced Placement 1 Tuesdays 5:30-6:45pm (Sept 2025 - May 2026)