Oct. 1-5 Happenings

5th Grade

Objectives:

• Student group lessons
• Continue individual lessons

Music Rehearsal:

1. High Brass
1. Refresh on hand position/posture
2. Refresh tonguing
3. Begin reading from book 
1. Encourage foot tapping
2. Pg. 4-5
2. Woodwinds
1. Refresh on holding the Instrument
2. Refresh tonguing
3. Begin from book
1. Encourage foot tapping
2. Pg. 4-5
3. Low Brass
1. Refresh on holding the Instrument
2. Refresh on tonguing
3. Begin from book
1. Encourage foot tapping
2. Pg. 4-5
4. Continue individual lessons

Middle School

6th

Objectives:

• Rehearse EE. Scales
• Rehearse Music
• Begin looking for Winter Concert music

Warm-Up:

• EE Pg. 40 Bb, Eb, F, Ab #1, 2
• Chromatic

Music Rehearsal:

1. Infinity March
1. Begin performing full runs
2. Begin increasing tempo
2. The Sound and the Fury
1. Isolate passages between flute and clarinets
2. Reinforce slurred melody lines in alto sax and trumpet
3. Work on developing tempo
3. Change of Pace
1. Reinforce performance of first 10 bars
2. Begin working backwards from the end
4. Distribute possible Winter Concert pieces and read

7/8th

Objectives:

• Rehearse major scales
• Rehearse pieces
• Begin looking for possible Winter Concert music

Warm-Up:

• Concert Major Scales: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, D
• 3rds
• Chromatic

Music Rehearsal:

1. Irish Ballade
1. Begin adding shaping to the piece
2. Reinforce tempo chance, and work to avoid rushing
3. Correct unison section
2. March
1. Work to reinforce steady beat throughout
2. Work with percussion to correct rhythms in timpani
3. Perform full runs
3. Sojourne 2000
1. Continue rehearsing in sections
2. Isolate sixteenth note passages
3. Isolate off beat hits
4. Distribute potential Winter Concert pieces and read

High School

Objectives:

• Rehearse for Fall Concert
• Finish collecting for music trip accounts

Warm-Up:

• Major Scales: Group 1
• 3rds in given key
• Chromatic
• Possibly distribute and begin reading from Bach Chorales

Music Rehearsal:

1. Them Basses
1. Begin isolation release points of tied rhythms
2. Increase tempo with percussion
3. Isolate moving lines in upper woodwinds in second half
4. Continue to work on balancing parts throughout
2. In the Bleak Mid Winter
1. Begin isolation areas for intonation
2. Isolate moving sixteenth passages in woodwinds
3. Isolate opening clarinet solo
3. Constellations
1. Begin establishing style contrast for each movement
2. Continue incorporating articulations 
3. Begin addressing dynamic changes
4. Isolate percussion parts throughout