Art
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AP STUDIO/STUDIO ART
Studio Art is an advanced level drawing and painting course offered to students with special talent or interest in art. Students are required to work independently on projects. Instruction takes the form of on-going critiques during and after the projects are completed. It is hoped that each student will find his/her own artistic direction.
The course may be taken for AP credit by students who have an extensive portfolio by the end of eleventh grade and who have spent at least one summer in a special art program. Otherwise, the course is a senior elective and may be taken only as a fifth course.
By permission of the department
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ART HISTORY
This course offers an historical analysis of the development of art into
the twentieth century. The effect on art, in thought and in image, of
the political, economical, scientific, and social atmosphere will be explored.
The aim of the course is aesthetic as well as historic; students are taught
to analyze as well as to recognize. Schools of art to be studied include:
Neo-Classicism (the Academy), Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism,
and the development of American art as the primary moving force in the
art world. Requirements will include at least three critical gallery reports,
a final examination, and a research presentation on one artist. (The material
presented in this course is on a college level.)
This course is also listed under History.
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Music
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AP MUSIC THEORY
The course integrates the study of melody, harmony, texture, rhythm and form while focusing on the following major skill areas: analysis of notated examples; development of aural (listening) skills, sight-singing and keyboard harmony; part-writing and harmonization. The primary emphasis will require each student to develop skills and concepts related to the system of major-minor tonality with a brief introduction to twentieth century techniques and terminology.
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MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
At the turn of a new century we can look back and listen to a hundred
years of revolutions in music, of cross-cultural boundary busting, of
innovations and experimentations in sound, and of sundry musical "isms"
(Impressionism, Expressionism, Minimalism, Neo-classicism, etc.)
This survey course in the music of our time is open to all and involves
serious listening, both in class, at home, and at live concert events
attended as a group. Emphasis is placed on the development of western
concert music of America and Europe, along with influences of world
music, jazz, rock/punk/pop, electronics, the avant-garde, and the aesthetics
of rhythm. Along with gaining an understanding of the creative and formal
aspects of music, we will also discuss the work within the context of
twentieth century arts, history, culture, and society. The seminar will
include both written and oral, individual and group projects.
From Ravel to Reich, Copland to Coltrane, Stravinsky to Sonic Youth,
Bartok to Beatles, Gershwin to Glass... imagine the sound!
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