November 24 Practice 6-8
December 1, 2014 Monday All County Band Auditions at Patrick Henry 5:00
December 4, 2014 Thursday Practice after school
December 6, 2014 Saturday Damascus Parade 10:00 am
December 7, 2014 Sunday Concert 3:00 HHS
December 13, 2014 Saturday All District Auditions at John Battle 8:30 – 12:00
Primary Objective of Instrumental Music:
develop a deep appreciation for Music as an art form
understand musical forms, styles, and acknowledge
major composers of each of the musical periods
develop listening skills
become proficient on his or her instrument
learn to work with and in a group or team
develop musical evaluation skills
What is expected:
Band is a performing ensemble. Attendance at Performances and rehearsals are expected. Students must commit because others in the group are counting on them as a responsible team member. If a student can not attend a rehearsal or performance, the director should be notified in advance when possible. Students are expected to make up missed work with the director before the end of the current grading period.
Grades:
Students will be evaluated on his or her profiencency level, attendance, and class room participation. Students will receive a grade for performances, and extra rehearsals. (If you can not attend: Do The Make Up Work.)
Students may be requested to turn in tapes for evaluation or stay after to play. Students will be expected to audition for All County and All District Events. Band Students will be asked to take an Exam (just like any other class.)
Band Grades are objective to a large degree, But students that have good attendance and make every effort to attend performances and extra rehearsals will be given credit for their merit and effort.
Virginia State Standard of Learning
Instrumental Music
Instrumental Music: Advanced Level
Students at the Advanced Level (VBODA Solo Repertoire, Level 4-5) will participate regularly in an orchestra or band setting. Technical and expressive skills will increase in difficulty as the student demonstrates a variety of articulations, bowings, positions, alternate fingerings, and vibrato while playing the required scales, arpeggios, and rudiments in more complex rhythmic patterns. Percussion students will become more proficient in the use of mallet instruments, timpani, and auxiliary instruments. Advanced instrumental students will perform, discuss, and critically evaluate characteristics of more elaborate music compositions. Students will discuss relationships between music concepts and other disciplines, and be involved in discussing various cultures, styles, composers, and historical periods.
Performance and Production
IAD.1 The student will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.
IAD.2 The student will produce tones that are clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.
IAD.3 The student will adjust intonation and match pitches.
IAD.4 The student will incorporate tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters in materials being studied.
IAD.5 The student will demonstrate a variety of articulations or bowings.
1. Use double-tongue, triple-tongue, and breath attacks on wind instruments.
2. Use spiccato, sforzando, louré, and flautando on stringed instruments.
IAD.6 The student will perform all major scales and selected melodic minor scales with one-octave tonic arpeggios, ascending and descending, in eighth notes (M.M. quarter note = 72).
1. Play e, a, d, g, c, f, b-flat, and e-flat melodic minor scales and one-octave tonic arpeggios on wind and mallet instruments.
2. Play g, a, b-flat, and c three-octave melodic minor scales and one-octave tonic arpeggios on violin.
3. Play c and d three-octave melodic minor scales and one-octave tonic arpeggios on viola or cello.
4. Play e, f, and g two-octave melodic minor scales and one-octave tonic arpeggios on string bass.
IAD.7 The percussion student will perform the 40 Percussive Arts Society (PAS) International Drum Rudiments, open-close-open.
IAD.8 The wind/mallet student will perform a chromatic scale, ascending and descending, in sixteenth notes (M.M. quarter note = 72) throughout the practical range of the instrument.
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Music Standards of Learning
IAD.9 The student will use dynamic contrast and technical skills as a means of expression.
1. Use vibrato, alternate fingerings, trills, and grace notes when performing on wind instruments.
2. Use three-mallet technique when performing on mallet percussion.
3. Use multiple percussion techniques when performing on auxiliary percussion instruments.
4. Use timpani technique on three or four drums, tuning drums to reference pitches and making changes during performance of an instrumental work.
5. Use shifting (violin or viola—up to fifth position; cello or bass—up to thumb position), alternate fingerings, and vibrato when performing on stringed instruments.
IAD.10 The student will demonstrate musical phrasing through the use of dynamic emphasis and tempo modification.
IAD.11 The student will demonstrate ensemble skills.
1. Blend instrumental timbres.
2. Match dynamic levels, style, and intonation.
3. Respond to conducting gestures.
4. Use conducting gestures.
IAD.12 The student will sight-read music of varying styles and levels of difficulty.
IAD.13 The student will sing a part while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
IAD.14 The student will perform music from a variety of cultures, styles, and historical periods.
IAD.15 The student will identify and repair minor problems of the instrument being studied.
IAD.16 The student will demonstrate increased learning through a variety of music activities.
1. Maintain attendance with required materials.
2. Demonstrate completion of assignments and/or practice.
3. Participate in activities such as concerts, performances, marching band, jazz ensemble, chamber ensembles, and All-District, All-Region, and All-Virginia events.
4. Demonstrate concert etiquette as a performer and listener.
Cultural Context and Music Theory
IAD.17 The student will improvise a melody to a I-IV-V-I chord progression.
IAD.18 The student will arrange accompanying harmonies or counter melodies to a given melody.
IAD.19 The student will read and write rhythmic patterns in complex meters, demonstrating technical facility and precision commensurate with VBODA Level 4-5.
IAD.20 The student will research career and avocational options in music, using available technology.
IAD.21 The student will identify, define, and apply music terms and symbols from materials being studied.
IAD.22 The student will compare and contrast materials being studied in its historical and cultural context.
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Music Standards of Learning
Judgment and Criticism
IAD.23 The student will diagnose and correct personal performance errors.
Aesthetics
IAD.24 The student will discuss relationships between music concepts and the concepts of other disciplines.
1. Identify how the characteristic qualities of sound, visual stimuli, other stimuli, movement, and human interrelationships can influence the fine arts.
2. Describe interrelationships between music and other disciplines.
IAD.25 The student will demonstrate concert etiquette as an active listener.
IAD.26 The student will articulate expressive qualities of music.
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