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Dominion High School Orchestra Program

Course Description

• Orchestra members will develop foundational skills on their instrument while ensemble skills are refined. We will focus on advancing rehearsal technique, performance skills, and musicianship.

Goals

• To provide each and every student a positive learning environment to learn, experience, create, perform, and love music.

• To nurture each and every student’s musical growth as well as personal growth through a sense of community.

• To foster a desire in each and every student to be a life-long musician.

Advanced Orchestra [Course Number: 275002]

Credit: 1 (Grades 9-12)

Prerequisite: Teacher recommendation.

Course Description: Technical and expressive skills increase in difficulty as students demonstrate mastery of a variety of articulations, bowings, positions, required scales, and arpeggios. Students at the advanced level perform, discuss, and critically evaluate characteristics of more elaborate musical compositions. This is a performance-oriented class, and students are active in numerous concerts and events. As a co-curricular ensemble, performances outside regular school hours are required.

Intermediate Orchestra [Course Number: 275003]

Credit: 1 (Grades 9-12)

 Prerequisite: Successful completion of LCPS middle school orchestra program, High School level Beginning Orchestra, or teacher recommendation.

Course Description: Students in the Intermediate Orchestra continue to develop proper tone production, style, playing technique, and appropriate ensemble skills while preparing musical selections for performance. As a co-curricular ensemble, performance outside regular school hours are required.