Welcome!

Welcome to 7th grade music!
Are you ready for an exciting new year of discovery and adventure?

In 7th grade music class this year we will be learning many new things about music, building off of everything we learned in 6th grade last year. We will learn how to read music by understanding notes, rests, musical punctuation, and the solfege scale, and we will use this knowledge to compose and arrange our own songs. We will learn to recognize the instruments of the orchestra by sight and by sound. We will follow the development of music during the late Romantic period, learn about the major composers from that era and listen to their masterworks. We will study the voice and how to use it as an instrument to make music alone and with others. We will also have the opportunity to perform in concert with the 4th and 6th graders at the end of the semester. This blog will help keep you updated on what we are learning in music class and will have some materials to help reinforce what we have learned.