Music Theory & Music Technology

Music Theory

Music Theory explores traditional harmony, arranging, composing and analyzing music. It also includes sight reading skills and ear training, and will help the student become a confident, well-rounded musician. Traditional methods of written music theory will be supplemented with computer-based instruction and recordings.

Some specific examples of the kinds of skills that are taught include the following:

Dictation (Listening to music and then writing it down)

Arranging (Taking a melody and writing parts for a full choir to sing)

Composing (Transferring musical ideas to written music)

Sight-reading (The ability to play or sing music as easily as one reads a sentence)

Harmony (Traditional theory; analyzing the way music is put together)

Students who have an avocational interest in music and those that are planning to study music in college will benefit greatly from this.

Music Technology

Music technology is a hands-on creative music course exploring the possibilities of performance, composition and recording made possible through the use of technology.

The course concentrates on the use of computers to digitally record and edit music. Computers are used to sequence and record music.

Computers are also used to create publisher-quality sheet music from notated scores.

Music software learned includes Sonar and Finale.

Students also learn to operate, maintain and troubleshoot sound systems, with an emphasis on proper live sound reinforcement, microphone use and equalization

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