IB Music
The IB Diploma Program is highly regarded as an integrated, college prep high school curriculum for 11th and 12th grade students. The IB mission is to promote international understanding and responsible world citizenship through high academic standards. Advanced music students are encouraged to take IB Music to deepen their understanding of their own musicianship and music cultures around the globe.
About the Course
Course Description
The IB Music course is designed to prepare students to take the IB Music Exam at the Higher Level. The IB Music program seeks to foster a curiosity and openness to both familiar and unfamiliar musical worlds. Students explore the similarities, differences and links in music from within their own culture and that of others across time and place. This course focuses primarily on Western European and American classical music from the Medieval period through the modern 21st Century. Students reflect and write about music through the elements of music (melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form, timbre, expression, and style) using academic music vocabulary.
IB Music students must be enrolled concurrently in an advanced ensemble, and will be automatically enrolled in the IB Music advisory class that meets once a week on Wednesdays.
Course Outline
Official Course Title: IB Music HL A & B
Credits: 1.0 per year (year-long course)
Grades: 11th and 12th grade students only
Prerequisites: Prior instrumental experience
Students must be enrolled concurrently in an advanced music ensemble
Graduation Requirements Satisfied: Fine Arts, IB Diploma
Class Period: Advisory