Location:

Lakeshore High School

Career Opportunities Include:

· Arranger
· Business/Management
· Composer
· Conductor
· Music Education
· Music Performance

GRADES: 11-12

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Class Description

Music Theory is a course designed to develop the students' ability to recognize, comprehend, and describe the musical elements used in music. Students will work to develop their skills in composition, analyzation, dictation, listening, sight singing, and notation. Some concepts covered in this class include, but are not limited to: intervals, scales, chords, rhythm, notation, harmony, form, and history. Music from various styles and periods such as Classical Baroque, Romantic, Jazz, and Contemporary will be studied. This class is aimed at the student who is serious about learning the language of music.

*This course may be available for college credit through Lake Michigan College.

Content Areas

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Career Outlook

Musicians, singers, and related workers play musical instruments, sing, compose or arrange music, or conduct groups in instrumental or vocal performances.

Musicians must be knowledgeable about a broad range of musical styles, but intensely aware of the form that interests them most. This broader range of interest, knowledge, and training can help expand employment opportunities and musical abilities.

Talent alone is no guarantee of success: many people start out to become musicians or singers, but leave the profession because they find the work difficult, the discipline demanding, and the long periods of intermittent unemployment unendurable.

Median annual earnings of salaried musicians and singers were $36,290 in 2002.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,Occupational Outlook Handbook 2004-2005 Edition. http://bls.gov/oco/Berrien County Career/Technical Education