Music
DLS Fine Arts…where students discover God’s gifts in the arts and use them to His glory!
Dallas Lutheran School's Music Department prepares students to be literate in the language of music through the use of solmization and improvisation. In addition, student musicians are provided several opportunities to perform throughout the school year in both curricular and extra-curricular performance groups. Student musicians serve as ambassadors of DLS in off-campus event, as well as serving the DLS community at on campus events.
Adolescents Involved With Music Do Better In School
ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2009) - A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematic achievement in early childhood and adolescence.
FAC067, Middle School Choir, 2 units, COURSE DESCRIPTION
No prerequisites. This course will include vocal and choral technique, sight-singing, music theory, music history, and aesthetics. This course is a performance class and will be provided at least one public performance per quarter. The students enrolled will engage in producing music while looking at the theory, history, and aesthetic aspects of that music. The more advanced students will be given the opportunity to participate in a TAPPS and/or TPS-MEA contest.
FAB086, Middle School Band, 2 units, COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisite for this course is at least one year of formal instruction or approval of director w/private lessons. This course will include the areas of instrumental technique and care, music theory, music history, and aesthetics. The course is a performance class and will be provided at least one public performance per quarter. Students enrolled will engage in producing music while looking at the theory, history, and aesthetic aspects of chosen selections. The more advanced students will be given the opportunity to participate in TPS-MEA events.
FAB625, Concert Band, 2 units, COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites for this course are at least one year of formal instruction or approval of director w/private lessons. This course will include the areas of performance, music theory, music history, and aesthetics. The course is a performance class and will be provided at least one required public performance per quarter and compete in TAPPS and TPS-MEA contests individually, in small ensemble, and large ensemble in the second semester. The students enrolled will be engaged in the theory, history, and aesthetics of music through the music they perform in course. A tour in the second semester may be included.
FAC627, Concert Choir, 2 units, COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites for this course are an audition and at least one year of formal instruction. This course will include the areas of performance, music theory, music history, and aesthetics. The course is a performance class and will be provided at least one required public performance per quarter and compete in TPS-MEA events individually, in small ensemble, and large ensemble in the second semester. The students enrolled will be engaged in the theory, history, and aesthetics of music through the music they perform in course. A tour in the second semester may be included.
FAA 670 – Humanities
Students will study the great forms of classical music (musical imaging, theme and variations, sonata, symphony, fugue, chorale, opera) through the major periods of western music. Special attention is given to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Mozart’s 40th Symphony and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
Johann Sebastian Bach
"For the glory of the most high God alone, And for my neighbor to learn from."
JS Bach, epigraph to Little Organ Book, 1717