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Goals and Objectives

The Centaurus High School Music Department believes that the quality of a student’s life is uniquely enriched in essential ways by the development of skills and values learned in the creation and/or performance of the fine arts.   Vocal and instrumental music encourage the student to function on multiple intellectual, analytical, thoughtful and expressive levels.

Program Goals:

  1. Sing or perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied
    repertoire of music.
  2. Improvise on melodies, variations and accomplishments.
  3. Compose and arrange music with specific guidelines.
  4. Read and notate music.
  5. Listen to, analyze and describe music.
  6. Evaluate music and music performance.
  7. Understand relationships between music, the other arts and disciplines outside of the arts.
  8. Understand music in relation to history and culture.
  9. Model excellence and discipline through the process of performing music in large ensembles.

Courses

Crs #:

Title:

Level:

Credits:

Prerequisite:

N31 A&B Music Theory
9-12
10
None

N41

Guitar 1 

9-12

5

Student required to provide acoustic guitar

N42 Guitar 2
9-12
5
Guitar 1 and teacher approval

N60 A&B

Concert Choir  (Mixed)

9-12

10

None

N64 A&B

Festival Choir

9-12

10

Audition Only

N38

Popular Music and Sound Recording

9-12

5

None

N68 A&B

Show Choir (Fermata the Blue)

10-12

10

Audition Only

N71 A&B

Band

9-12

10

Previous experience or demonstrated ability

 
 

N75 A&B

Jazz Band

9-12

10

Previous experience or demonstrated ability

N81 A&B

Orchestra

9-12

10

Previous experience on any stringed orchestral instrument

Detailed course descriptions are available in the Course Description Book, linked off the CHS Academics Overview page.

Faculty

Teacher's Name  Extension    Number E-mail Address
Classes Taught
Scott Wickham
7955
Popular Music and Sound Recording
Festival Choir 
Beg. & Intermediate Guitar
Show Choir
Concert Choir
Aaron Vogelsberg
7914
Marching Band
Concert Band
Jazz Band
IB Music Theory
Fred Jewell
7937
Orchestra

Extra Curricular Activities

Please refer to CHS Performing Arts page to see the many ways Centaurus students use their musical talents beyond the classroom.

Online Resources

 

 Documents

Folder: Vocal Music DocumentsVocal Music DocumentsScott Wickham
Centaurus High School Performing Arts Calendar.docCentaurus High School Performing Arts CalendarScott Wickham
CHS Advanced American Literature Summer Reading[1][1].docCHS Advanced American Literature Summer Reading[1][1]Kelly Messenger
Advanced World Literature[1].docAdvanced World Literature[1]Kelly Messenger
Adv. ninth Grade reading list.docAdv. ninth Grade reading listKelly Messenger
course desc 09-10 BVSD_CHS[1].pdfcourse desc 09-10 BVSD_CHS[1]Kelly Messenger
Course description 07-08 SPANISH.pdfCourse description 07-08 SPANISHJay Hart
course desc 07-08BVSD CHS.pdfcourse desc 07-08BVSD CHSJay Hart