• Review and study musical terms pertaining to dynamics, tempo, expression and repeats
• Review and study the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, texture and form
• Learn and perform a march, a transcription, a modern work, an overture, and a slow/lyrical work
• Study the music of Latin America (Mexico, Cuba and Brazil)

A three-year cycle of study as follows:

2016-2017

• Study and perform the music of Gustav Holst, Johann Sebastian Bach, and European marches
• Study and perform the music of Jewish composers and musicians

2017-2018

• Study and perform the music of Percy Grainger, Aaron Copland, and John Philip Sousa
• Study and perform the music of East Asian composers and musicians

2018-2019

• Study and perform the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Leonard Bernstein, and Karl King/Henry Fillmore
• Study and perform the music of African-American composers and musicians

A two-year cycle of study as follows:

2017-2018

• Study, perform, improvise and compose music using blues, modal and ii-V-I progressions
• Study the history of jazz from 1960 to the present

2018-2019

• Study, perform, improvise and compose music using blues, modal and ii-V-I progressions
• Study the history of jazz from 1900 to 1960