South River High – Honors Apex Arts Ensemble Orchestra 3 \[FY\] 0.5/sem

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course is designed to expand a student’s musical technique and diversify their repertoire. An emphasis is on portfolio development and audition preparation for conservatory and/or higher education opportunities. This course provides violin, viola, bass, and cello students more advanced instruction in the development of individual musical skills with emphasis on ability to analyze cross cultural musical style influences, such as jazz, rap, and hip-hop, and twenty-first century cinematic scores. This course is available at Broadneck High School only. | | | | --- | --- | | | P71 \| Honors Apex Arts Ensemble Orchestra 4 \[FY\] 0.5/sem | | | This course is designed to refine students' musicianship building on the string instrument skills and techniques developed in previous levels. The focus is on original composition, preparing students for | | solo performance and audition for college and career choices. This | P76 \| Honors Apex Arts Vocal Music Performance 1 \[FY\] 0.5/sem Students will strengthen and refine their musical technique by immersing themselves in a variety of intensive performing, listening, creating, and evaluating experiences. Emphasis will be placed on a rigorous development of skills, particularly the ability to perform in an ensemble and as a soloist. Students will also engage in transcribing and arranging music. Correct vocal production, diction, sight singing, and comprehensive musicianship will be emphasized through representative vocal repertoire from historical periods, musical styles and genres. This course is available at Broadneck High School only.