Overview

Friday, November 17, 2006 :

4:00 A.M.   Buses arrive at School to load luggage and instruments    BUS

423 Fox Chapel Road

Pittsburgh , PA 15238

5:00 A.M.   Group departs from school

TBA   Periodic restroom and dining breaks

2:00 P.M.   Group arrives at Westminster Choir College/Rider College for Choir Clinic (group has arrange for this on their own)

   101 Walnut Lane

   Princeton , NJ 08540

4:00 P.M.   Group departs for hotel in Lyndhurst , NJ    BUS

6:30 P.M.   Group departs for The Big Apple    BUS

7:15 P.M.    Hard Rock Café Dinner

8:45 P.M.   Free time for shopping and exploring at Times Square

10:00 P.M.   Group returns to the hotel    BUS

Saturday, November 18, 2005 :

7:00 A.M.   Breakfast at the hotel

8:45 A.M.   Depart for Lincoln Center    BUS

140 West 65 th St .

** Please call if you are running late/ need more directions, etc.

9:40 A.M.   Arrive at Lincoln Center

NO BACKPACKS/ BAGS ALLOWED ON LINCOLN CENTER TOURS

(purses & cameras OK)

10:00 A.M.    Guided Tour of Lincoln Center

11:00 A.M.    String Orchestra Master Class (pending confirmation)

11:00 A.M.   Rest of the group departs for free time at Midtown Manhattan    BUS

12:30 P.M.   String Orchestra departs for Midtown Manhattan    BUS

1:20 P.M.   Group departs for the Shubert Theater

1:40 P.M.   Group picks up Spamalot Tickets at the Box Office

2:00 P.M.    Broadway Show

4:00 P.M.   Free time for shopping, exploring and dining on own

6:00 P.M.   Group walks over to Mars 2112 for dinner

7:30 P.M.   Group departs for Shops at Columbus Circle    BUS

9:30 P.M.   Group returns to the hotel    BUS

Sunday, November 19, 2005 :

6:30 A.M.   Breakfast at the hotel

8:00 A.M.   Check-out of hotel and Depart for NBC Studios – Tour NOT available for people under the age of 6 – Group will be separated in to groups of 30 – Group MUST arrive no later than 30 minutes prior to the tour to pick up tickets

9:00 A.M.   Group walks over to NBC Studio Store to pick up tickets for the NBC Studio Tour

9:30 A.M.    NBC Studios Tour

11:00 A.M.   Depart for Shady Side Academy    BUS

   423 Fox Chapel Road

Pittsburgh , PA 15238

TBA   Periodic restroom and dining breaks

8:00 P.M.   Group arrives home

Music Theory

Course Expectations

  Music Theory is offered to all SSA students with no prerequisites necessary. It is a classroom elective and earns three credits toward graduation. The course content is based on a college first year theory class with concepts age appropriate to high school students.

  Music Theory is a discipline predicated upon an intellectual understanding of how music is put together. Music is organized sound. In Theory we examine the creative process, and how decisions are made to achieve the desired communication of emotional content in a composition. Course content includes fundamentals of sound, notation, harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, analysis, voice leading, ear training, historical context, and formal structures. By the end of the course a student should feel comfortable discussing an opening movement from a Beethoven sonata in terms of all of those concepts. In addition, there discussions about music from pop culture, and 20 th century compositions.

Grading Policy.

  Students will be evaluated by their progress on nightly homework, quizzes, tests, and projects. There will be a minimum of three major evaluations per term, along with intermittent quizzes. Daily participation discussing homework assignments and new material is critical in determining the final grade and effort grades. A student must complete a minimum of 70% of the homework assignments to pass the class (in conjunction with results of other evaluations).

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