Chorus

			CHORUS
The vocal music curriculum draws on the nation and the world for its content as it enriches and maintains our cultural heritage. This course of study correlates to the NJ Core Content Curriculum Standards for Visual and Performing Arts and Workplace Readiness Standards. The National Standards for Music Education are also addressed at each level in the Middle School Choral Program.
The choral classroom offers one of the best opportunities for all children to experience musical enjoyment and self-growth, which develop from the ability to produce music, and then to perform music with skill and understanding. During this class, students will learn to meet musical challenges with musicianship, and to take command of musical materials. The program is based on the three “P’s” of Doreen Rao’s Choral Music Experience: produce, practice, and perform. The students produce music with their singing voice, practice musicianship, and perform great music with skill and understanding. A variety of quality, age appropriate choral literature is used at all levels. Performances are given two times a year and highlight some, but not all, of the pieces studied in class.
Students receive homogeneously grouped lessons several times a marking period in order to bring each vocal student to his or her maximum individual performance level. The lesson schedule can be accessed by the link below.
		Sixth & Seventh Grades
Chorus in grades 6 and 7 meets during the Enrichment period. 6th grade meets two times a week, on Monday and Wednesday. 7th grade meets on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. In sixth grade the group starts out as a treble ensemble, and, with the the changing voices of the boys, develops into a mixed ensemble by the end of seventh grade.
		Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade Chorus meets every day as an elective for the entire school year. This schedule allows for challenges that include more advanced 3-part mixed choral arrangements.

	LESSON SCHEDULE			MS MUSIC