Music Theory

• Key signatures – C, F, G, D, A, and E
• Letter names on staff (treble clef for SA, both for T, bass clef for B)
• Rhythm: dotted eight-sixteenth, 6/8 and 12/8 meter, ties/syncopation
• Spelling: be able to spell scales in C, F, G, D, A, and E
• If time, be able to play scales on piano: C, F, G, D, A, E
• Accidentals: be able to identify whether a natural sign means up, down, or neither in keys of C, F, G, D, A, and E

Ear Training

• Intervals: drill & master as much as possible: m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, P5, P8
• Chords: identify and sing Major & Minor
• Scales: identify and sing Major Diatonic and Pentatonic
• Audiating: lots of solfege and hearing pitches.
• Solfege: be able to sing some important patterns from any given pitch (e.g. sing Sol-Mi-Do from this pitch, now from this pitch, etc.)
• Be able to identify and sing Do, Mi, and Sol from any given major chord

Sight-Singing

• Get as far as we can sight-singing on solfege in C, F, G, D, A, and E.
• Probably all diatonic, though maybe get to Fi and/or Si.
• Learn both major and minor
• Applying concepts we’re learning to reading of choral music, and stopping to talk about exactly how we know what to sing based on what we’ve learned.