fine arts credit

[AngieW in Texas]

Of the options for a fine arts credit, my 14yo has chosen piano. We started at the beginning of summer and she has been quite surprised to find that she is actually enjoying it.

 

We are using Alfred's Basic All-in-One Piano course for adults.

http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All---One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_32?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280510085&sr=1-32

 

What do you think she needs to do to get a full credit for piano? Would level 1 be equivalent to a full year of piano or would that be equivalent to just one semester? I think level 1 would be worthy of a full year credit, but I don't know.

 

Should I go just off of hours completed? NARHS uses 160 half-hour sessions to count as a full credit for music. I have been having my dd do 20 minutes, 4x/week for the summer, but I will increase that to 30 minutes, 4x/week for the schoolyear. That should easily give her 80 hours total since she'll have at least 12 hours over the summer.

 

edited to add:

I did find a course outline for a full credit high school piano course using Alfred's Basic All-in-One as the main text along with a Hanon book of exercises for warmup.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/bcchs/departments/music/Piano%20Handbook%202009-10.pdf

Edited July 30, 2010 by AngieW in Texas

[homeschoolva]

We recently did this for theatre and our local high school said to count hours, we ended up with a full credit for technical theatre (170 hours here) and 1/2 credit for production/performance (90 hours). We used titles that compared to what they have, I don't remember exactly what they were.

[Tullia]

I gave my son a full (elective) credit for level 1, but he also attended several performances, prepared for and participated in a music festival which offered different categories of competition based on how long students had been playing. In addition to that, he read several books on the history and technical characteristics of the piano. He also spent a lot of time online, bought and read some books on his favorite pianists and things such as pedaling techniques. I did not have him write a paper on any of those readings but that would be a reasonable thing to do, especially if there's a chance that a dc might major or minor in some form of music.

 

HTH,

Martha

 

Just saw your addition; ds uses Hanon too. They make a good pair of beginning piano texts.

Edited July 31, 2010 by Martha in NM
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