GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Curriculum Guide
Course Title: High School
Concert Band
Subject: Instrumental Music
Grade Level: 9-12
Department/School: Music/High School
Duration: Full Year
Number of Credits: 5
Prerequisite: Students
must have basic knowledge of the instrument before playing in the HS Concert
Band.
Elective or Required: None
Author: Kevin Lagos
Date Submitted: Summer 2005
Course Description
The Glen Ridge Concert Band offers students an opportunity
to study music by playing, singing and composing. Through these means, they learn to express
themselves creatively while knowledge of notation and performance traditions
enable them to hear new music independently all their lives. Skills in analysis, evaluation, and synthesis
enable students to recognize and pursue excellence in their musical experiences
and to understand and enrich their environment.
Since music is an integral part of human history, the ability to listen
with understanding is essential if students are to have a broad cultural and
historical perspective.
GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MUSIC
The making of music is a thoughtful practice involving
formal and informal knowledge. It
requires the development and practice of sensory skills, the manipulation and
translation of complex symbols, and the understanding of the component parts
and the big picture within the composition.
The Glen Ridge Music Department strives to show that one
cannot understand music without the awareness of size, shape, physics and
mechanical functioning of the instruments.
Personal physical involvement and the development of skills in
breathing, projection, and intonation are intimate personal activities that
most people give little notice to but which are essential skills if we are to
be able to be clearly understood.
The Glen Ridge High School Concert Band is an opportunity
for mutual effort and success. The
knowledge that the group’s successful performance is reliant on the practice
and perfection of each individual’s contribution is an asset to the family, the
school and later in the workplace.
MUSIC
STANDARD 1.1:
(AESTHETICS)
STANDARD 1.2: (CREATION
STANDARD 1.3:
(ELEMENTS
STANDARD 1.4:
(CRITIQUE)
STANDARD 1.5: (HISTORY/CULTURE)
Curriculum Description
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Perform
with correct posture.
2. Use
proper embouchure placement.
3. Demonstrate
proper breathing techniques.
4. Play
with good tone and intonation.
5. Demonstrate proper articulations.
Content Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Duration of time: Full Year
Activities
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Teacher demonstration and aids
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Physical exercises from Methods Books (Arban’s, Clark
etc.)
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Classroom warm-ups and drills
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Record, playback and analyze student performance
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Perform
the various elements of music as found in the composition with pitch, rhythmic,
and stylistic accuracy.
2. Discuss
the various elements of music as found in the composition.
3. Sight
read in different keys.
Content Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Duration of time: Full Year
Activities
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Classroom rehearsal of level 4 pieces on a 1-6 scale
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Classroom discussions
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Student solos, outside performances
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Teacher provided material
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Participate
as a performer in a musical ensemble.
2. Perform
appropriate music in correct style.
3. Compose
original melodies with others.
4. Create
chord progressions and improvise over the progression.
5. Play
with correct dynamics, articulations, and rhythmic accuracy.
6. Demonstrate
through performance correct interpretation of conductor’s patterns and
directions.
7. Demonstrate proper rehearsal and performance techniques.
Content Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
Duration of time:
Full Year
Activities
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Instrumental material provided by the teacher
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Recordings provided by the teacher
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Evaluation worksheets
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Small ensembles
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Improvisation concerts
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Ensemble playing of students’ written music
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Develop
and utilize a set of criteria to evaluate their performance.
2. Distinguish various styles of musical literature by performing, analyzing, and listening.
Content Standards: 1.4, 1.5
Duration of time: Last
two weeks of each marking period
Activities
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Teacher and student developed rubrics
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Adjudication tapes
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Performances for main ensemble
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Performances for small ensembles
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Field trips to NYC, NJPAC etc. to watch performances
Texts, Resources, and/or Literature
· The band chooses music from a library of over 700 pieces of music. The difficulty ranges from a level 1-6. The musicians in the High School Concert Band will be playing music with a difficulty rating of 3-4.
·
Other texts we use include:
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Arban’s Trumpet and Brass Studies
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Voxman Duet Vol. 2
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“College Music Journal”