Middle School Band

Middle School Advanced Band will meet on A days during the last half of second period. This class is for continuing instrumentalists at least in their second year of playing.

Solo & Ensemble Festival - Saturday, Oct. 4 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Concert 7:00 p.m. - Everyone is invited

Ping Pong Polka - accompaniment track
Processional- accomaniment track
Elegy - accomaniment track
Rigaudon - accomaniment track
Rondo for Trumpet - accomaniment track

This year we will increase our playing abilities, sight reading skills, and understanding of music theory.

Students will:
a. perform on at least one instrument accurately and independently, alone and in small and large ensembles, with good posture, good playing position, and good breath, or stick control
b. perform with expression and technical accuracy a varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some solos performed from memory
c. perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed
d. play by ear simple melodies on a melodic instrument

Students
a. read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4 , 4/4, 6/8 , 3/8 , and alla breve meter signatures
b. read at sight simple melodies in both the treble and bass clefs
c. identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression
d. use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others
e. sightread, accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6

And we'll play lots of new music!

 

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