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The North Allegheny Middle School Band program includes instruction in wind and percussion instruments. Band is offered in 6th, 7th and 8th grades with students grouped according to grade level. The North Allegheny Band program follows the National Standards with particular emphasis on Standard #2 (Performing, on instruments, a varied repertoire of music) in providing instruction. Students are not auditioned for inclusion in the program. Each group performs in two formal concerts (Winter and Spring) as well assemblies and other performances throughout the year.

The Middle School Chorus Program

6th grade chorus - first offered as a course in 1999

  • Students usually sing in unison or two parts
  • Emphasis is on reading music and basic singing skills 

7th grade chorus - first offered as a course in 1998

  • Students usually sing in two or three parts
  • Emphasis is on reading more difficult music
  • Reinforces good singing habits and more advanced skills including the changing voice

8th grade chorus

  • Students usually sing in three or four parts
  • Emphasis is on reading more complicated music
  • Reinforces good singing habits and appropriate skills for male and female voices

 

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General Music should be the most universal and constant segment of music education. Its primary function is to provide every student with the key to the musical heritage of all peoples. It is a phase of general education pursued throughout formal schooling and beyond.

The primary result of general music is heightened musical responsiveness so that the students are given the opportunity to develop their aesthetic potential to the highest possible level through expressive experience with music.

General Music is the study of music literature approached by the following means:

1. Understanding many types of music through guided listening, singing, playing instruments and moving to music.

2. Understanding and using music notation.

3. Understanding musical structures and forms by analyzing musical examples.

4. Creating music by improvising, composing and arranging music for voices, instruments, computers and electro-acoustical instruments.

 

General Music develops musical skills and understanding, not readily acquired through ordinary school or social experiences. These skills and understandings have broad applications to the enrichment of living.

 

GENERAL MUSIC TERMINAL COMPETENCIES

Goal I: The North Allegheny School District Music Education will help every student to acquire skills in listening, describing, reading, performing and creating in order to promote aesthetic response.

 

Terminal Competency: High school students who have completed the prescribed sequence of General Music courses should:

 

1. listen to music with understanding.

2. describe music verbally and/or non-verbally.

3. read music notation.

4. perform music.

5. improvise and/or compose music.

 

 

 

In General Music at North Allegheny, we teach to the National Standards set forth in "Goals 2000".

 

 

These standards are:
  1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
  2. Playing instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
  3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
  4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
  5. Reading and notating music
  6. Listening to , analyzing and describing music
  7. Evaluating music and music performances
  8. Understanding the relationships between music , the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
  9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture

At the Middle Schools, General Music includes:

 

 

(click on a particular topic to see its description)

 

Guitar
Keyboard Lab
Opera
Instruments of the Orchestra
American Music - - Jazz
Musical Theater
Program Music
Rock and Roll - - Popular Music