Dec. 10-14 Happenings

5th Grade

Objectives:

• Reinforce Notes In Review
• Rehearse Winter Concert Pieces and distribute concert expectations sheet
• Continue band lessons

Warm-Up:

1. Pg. 6 “Notes in Review”

Music Rehearsal:

1. EE Pg. 5 #8
2. Pg. 9 #38
3. St. Nick on the Housetop
1. Reinforce trombone part
2. Reinforce rest counting
3. Isolate eighth note passages
4. Continue from EE. Pg. 9 forward

Middle School

6th

Objectives:

• Rehearse EE. Scales
• Rehearse Winter Concert music

Warm-Up:

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

Music Rehearsal:

1. The Sound and the Fury
1. Reinforce slurred melody lines in alto sax and trumpet
2. Continue increasing tempo
3. Perform full runs
2. Stormy Windy March
1. Continue rehearsing dynamics
2. Perform full runs
3. Frosty the Snowman
1. Isolate B section with woodwinds
2. Reinforce dynamics
3. Perform full runs

7/8th

Objectives:

• Rehearse major scales
• Rehearse Winter Concert Pieces

Warm-Up:

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

Music Rehearsal:

1. Themes from The Nutcracker
1. Continue performing full runs
2. Emphasize dynamics
3. Isolate saxophone melody in Arabian Dance
4. Isolate half note parts in Russian Dance
2. Moscow 1941
1. Fast Section
1. Isolate upper woodwind eighth note section
2. Reinforce transitions with rit. especially
3. Work for more dynamic contrast
4. Perform full runs
3. The Water is Wide
1. Isolate moving inner-voice parts to prevent rushing
2. Work to develop proper balance with moving melody lines
3. Isolate the key change section and work the transition into the new key
4. Work to identify release points on long notes
5. Perform full runs

High School

Objectives:

• Rehearse Winter Concert Music
• Continue looking for Pops Music

Warm-Up:

• Major Scales
• 3rds in given key
• Chromatic
• Bach Chorale 

Music Rehearsal:

1. Holiday Piece
1. Continue building tempo
2. Work on clarinet runs
3. Reinforce shaping
4. Perform full runs
2. Novo Lenio
1. Begin rehearsing dynamic shaping in opening and closing sections
2. Develop transition between slow and fast sections
3. Perform full runs
3. God of Our Fathers
1. Continue working upper-woodwind arpeggios 
2. Isolate rhythms in the closing section in brass
3. Perform full runs