Classes Offered

*ALL LEVEL PERCUSSIONIST must sign-up for this class. Advance students receive Honors Credit.

The class focuses on developing music reading, music theory and performance, skills and technique. The class is a 4 year program in which students learn to perform on several types of percussion instruments and specialize in one or several.

 

Percussion Instruments Include: Drumline Instruments (snare, quads, basses and cymbals), Mallet instruments (marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, bells), Keyboards (piano), Drums Set, Guitar and Latin Percussion (congas, bongos), Hand Percussion Instruments (triangle, cymbals, cow bell, wind-chimes)

 

Open to students with no previous instrumental music experience on band instruments. The class focuses on learning to read music notation, understanding fundamental music theory and performance on a band instrument.  Most instruments are available with a yearly maintenance fee.
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone, French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba…

 

 

Open to students with a solid foundation on a wind band instrument and basic music theory fundamentals. Students are placed by director or by audition. The class focuses on further developing music reading, music theory, performance skills and technique. Students represent Mater Dei at local and national music festivals and concerts. Most instruments are available with a yearly maintenance fee. After school rehearsals and performances are mandatory.

Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Saxophone, French Horn, Trumpet, Euphonium, Trombone, Tuba.

 

Participation in Marching Band/Pep Band is required.

UC Approved, 1 year fulfills Arts Requirement
Parent Bingo-Fundraising Participation Required and Fees Apply.

 

Please contact director for more information [email protected]

This class is open to students with at least one year experience on a string orchestra instrument which include Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass. The class focuses on further developing music reading, music theory, performance skills, and technique. Students represent Mater Dei High School at special events and local performance festivals. After school rehearsals and performances are mandatory. Most instruments are available with a yearly maintenance fee.

 

UC Approved, 1 year fulfills Arts Requirement

Parent Bingo-Fundraising Participation Required and Fees Apply

 

Please contact director for more information [email protected]

Open to all students. No previous dance or color guard experience is necessary.

This group combines elements of dance with props and equipment. Students will perform on flag, rifle, saber, and other equipment. This competitive group meets after school for rehearsals and on weekends for most performances. Members perform at home football games and local, regional competitions and events with the marching band during the Fall semester as a part of the Marching Monarch Pageantry Corps. Members perform and compete in color guard competitions during 2nd semester (Indoor Colorguard). Auditions for fall season take place in the spring; auditions for the spring season take place in December.

 

Participation fees apply.

This course is not a UC or CSU approved course.

 

Please contact director for more information [email protected]

 

This is an advanced level course designed to engage students in learning activities that will help them to achieve the outcomes assessed by the College Board’s Advanced Placement Music Theory Examination. The AP Music Theory course is designed to develop a student’s ability to recognize, understand, and describe the basic materials and processes of music that are heard or presented in a score. These abilities will be developed through various listening, performance, written, creative, and analytical exercises. Although this course focuses on music of the Common Practice Period (1600 – 1900), materials and processes found in other styles and genres are also studied. Students are encouraged to sit for the College Board’s Advanced Placement Music Theory Examination. Students who successfully complete the AP Music Theory Examination and plan to major in music in college may be able to enroll in an advanced music theory course, depending upon the individual college’s policy. An AP Test Fee applies.

 

Please contact director for more information! [email protected]

 

This is an elective course for intermediate guitarists with at least 1 or more years of experience on the instrument. Students will continue to learn open chords, power chords, movable chords, single note (melody) playing, accompaniment techniques, and a variety of playing techniques and styles, including both pick-style and fingerstyle approaches to the guitar. The course also includes music fundamentals, theory, songs, performances, listening, improvising, and learning to read standard music notation as well as tablature. In addition, students will be encouraged to perform as soloists, small groups, and collaborate with the advanced level classes on a regular basis.