Visions for the Future
Values for a Lifetime
Welcome to Grade 8 Music!
Overview:
Music Theory: We will learn: Intervals, Scales (chromatic, pentatonic, whole tone, octatonic), Chords and arpeggios (7th and other extended chords, bitonal and clusters), and an overview of the twelve tone technique and other 20th century compositional devices.
Music History: 20th Century Music and Beyond (1900-Present). We will explore impressionistic music (Debussy, Satie, Ravel), expressionistic and atonal music (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg), minimalist music (Reich, Riley, Glass), musique concrete (Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Varese) neo-classicism and post modernism (Bartok, Babbitt, Cage, Carter, Copland, Crumb, Gorecki, Ives, Messiaen, Part, Piazzolla, Penderecki, Schnittke, Shostakovitch, Stravinsky and Wuorinen).
Music Technology: Noteflight (Notation Software) and Garage Band (Music Production Software).
Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/NDAyMzY5MDI3NTM5?cjc=txtwwob
Google Meets: https://meet.google.com/eij-faio-djd
Class code: txtwwob