The Bishop Noll Band academic classes offered:
Bishop Noll Beginning Band Class
The BNI beginning band class is designed for students who wish to learn a traditional concert band instrument who have had no previous opportunity to do so. This class is open freshman through senior students. Students are provided with a musical instrument at no cost an all class materials. Students retain the musical instrument they learn as long as they are enrolled in either beginning band or advanced band classes. After students have successfully completed the beginning band class they can move up to the advanced band class and receive honors credit upon fulfilling the requirements for the honors credit.
The beginning band class follows and enforces the Indiana state music standards for instrumental performance:
P 8.12.1 and P 8.12.2.
The BNI beginning band class is designed for students who wish to learn a traditional concert band instrument who have had no previous opportunity to do so. This class is open freshman through senior students. Students are provided with a musical instrument at no cost an all class materials. Students retain the musical instrument they learn as long as they are enrolled in either beginning band or advanced band classes. After students have successfully completed the beginning band class they can move up to the advanced band class and receive honors credit upon fulfilling the requirements for the honors credit.
The beginning band class follows and enforces the Indiana state music standards for instrumental performance:
P 8.12.1 and P 8.12.2.
Bishop Noll Advanced Band Class
The advanced program is designed for students whose skill set allows them to perform pre-college and college level music. Students are offered the opportunity to secure honors status in this class after they have fulfilled the requirements and with the permission of the band director.
The advanced program combines the skill sets of marching band performance in the fall and concert band in the late fall and spring. The program also offers students opportunities to perform in jazz band, mariachi band, string ensemble, wind ensemble and percussion ensemble. The program also offers a true college experience offering opportunities for travel as the band performs at national competitions both for concert and marching band all over the United States. It is the only pre-college level high school band program in the NW Indiana and surrounding Chicago- land area that offers students an honors status credit for the class.
The program follows and enforces the Indiana state music standards for instrumental performance IDOE standards P 8.12.3, P 8.12.4 and IDOE state standards CR 9.12. 1, CR 9.12. 2,CR 9.12. 3, CR 10.12. 1 and standards CR 11.12.1, CR 11.12.2 and CR 11.12.3.
The advanced program is designed for students whose skill set allows them to perform pre-college and college level music. Students are offered the opportunity to secure honors status in this class after they have fulfilled the requirements and with the permission of the band director.
The advanced program combines the skill sets of marching band performance in the fall and concert band in the late fall and spring. The program also offers students opportunities to perform in jazz band, mariachi band, string ensemble, wind ensemble and percussion ensemble. The program also offers a true college experience offering opportunities for travel as the band performs at national competitions both for concert and marching band all over the United States. It is the only pre-college level high school band program in the NW Indiana and surrounding Chicago- land area that offers students an honors status credit for the class.
The program follows and enforces the Indiana state music standards for instrumental performance IDOE standards P 8.12.3, P 8.12.4 and IDOE state standards CR 9.12. 1, CR 9.12. 2,CR 9.12. 3, CR 10.12. 1 and standards CR 11.12.1, CR 11.12.2 and CR 11.12.3.