Church Music Education Program for the whole year

Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary
Course: MM 361 Church Music Ministry
Professor: Miss Julie Sibucao
Student: Sein Thein
Assignment: Church Music Ministry/Education Program
Date: February 15th, 2008

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Month: January

The Basic Music foundation
The meaning of Music
About theory
a) Learning the names of note (e.g. whole note, half note, etc.)

The History of Music
The history of Instruments
a) The history of Piano
b) The history of Guitar
c) The history of Percussions


Month: February

Sound

Pitch
a) Highness
b) Lowness

Dynamics
a) Decrescendo
b) Diminuendo

Tone
a) Listening Outlines
b) Listening to the tape or CD

Month: March

Performing Media (Voices and Instruments)
Voices
a) Soprano
b) Mezzo-soprano
c) Alto or contralto
d) Tenor
e) Baritone
f) Bass

Instruments

a) String Instruments
b) Woodwind Instruments
c) Brass Instruments
d) Percussion Instruments
e) Keyboard
f) Electronic Instruments

Month: April

Rhythm
1) Beat
2) Meter
3) Accent and Syncopation
4) Tempo

Month: May

Music Notation
1) Notating Pitch
2) Notating Rhythm
3) Notating Silence (Rests)
4) Notating Meter
5) Notating the Score

Month: June

Harmony
1) Consonance and dissonance
2) The Triad
3) Broken chord

Month: July

Key
1) Major Scale
2) Minor Scale
3) Key Signature
4) Chromatic Scale

Month: August

Musical Texture
1) Monophonic Texture
2) Polyphonic Texture
3) Homophonic Texture
4) Changes of Texture

Month: September

Musical Form
1) Techniques That Create Musical Form
a) Repetition
b) Contrast
c) Variation
2) Types of Musical Form
a) Three-part (Ternary) Form : ABB
b) Listening Outline
c) Two parts (Binary) Form: AB

Month: October

Applied Music
1) Discussion about applied Music
2) Practical
a) Piano Lesson
b) Vice Lesson
c) Guitar Lesson
d) Violin Lesson

Month: November

Performance
1) The performer
2) The Conductor
3) Recorder and Live Performance
4) Judging Performance
5) Recital

Month: December

The Renaissance
1) Music in the Renaissance
2) Sacred Music in the Renaissance
3) Secular Music in the Renaissance