Welcome to Music at LCDS
Spring Trimester 2008
Sonja Jewell, conductor
3/10/2008- 6/07/2008
3rd-5th grade Choir and Orchestra Spring Concert
Wednesday, May 7-Call time 5:30-Concert at 6:00 p.m.
6th-8th Choir, Orchestra, and Show Choir Spring Concert
Wednesday, May 7- Call time 6:30 for orchestras in lower school tech lab- Call time 6:45 for choirs in field house- Concert at 7:00 p.m.
Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day Performances- all grades
Friday, May 9
9:00-9:30- PK-2nd
10:00-10:30-3rd, 4th, and 5th grade choirs and orchestras
10:45-noon- 6th, 7th, 8th choirs and orchestras
6th-8th concert rehearsals on stage
Orchestra students bring instruments
Soloists must be present at all rehearsals
Friday, April 18- 1:17-2:09
Friday, April 25- 1:17-2:09
week of April 28. t.b.a.
Monday, May 5- 12:35-2:15
CLOSING EXERCISES- Grades six and seven
Saturday, June 7, call time 10:00 for orchestras, 10:45 for general. Ceremony starts at 11:00 a.m.
Closing Exercises rehearsals- Grades six-eight
6th And 7th Grade students bring instruments June 2-6.
Students are expected to participate in all performances.
The dress for all 4th-8th grade students is Monday Dress.
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Below I have listed the concepts we will study this trimester. In addition, all classes prepare for performances by singing in parts with proper vocal production.
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Fifth Grade General
Unit five and six
Identify and use three-four meter. Identify and use rhythm patters containing quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and their accompanying rests. Recognize I, IV, and V chords. Identify and create in rondo form.
Grading
Written tests and assignments- 60%
Class participation and required performance attendance-40%
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Sixth Grade General
Unit six
Learn stylistic characteristics of music from 1900-1990 by listening, comparing and contrasting, and performing Orff play-a-longs.
Introduction to Orchestral instruments
Learn the basics of playing the violin, viola, cello, or bass. Classroom instruments and books will be used.
Grading
Written tests and assignments- 60%
Class participation and required performance attendance-40%
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Seventh Grade General
Unit six
Continue to identify dynamic changes, accelerando, tempo changes. Identify repeated patterns. Perform melodic ostinati, homophonic, polyphonic textures. Identify theme and variations, subject and episode.
Unit seven
Listen to and identify repetition and contrast in dynamics. Perform legato and staccato. Perform melodic accompaniments. Listen to and identify sections of equal and unequal length, contrasting sections and repetitions. Review ternary form. Identify rondo and suite.
Unit eight
Identify marching band, orchestra, families of instruments, blend and contrast in music. Identify decisions about tone color and tone colors in scores. Perform rhythms in steady rhythm. Identify march time.
Grading
Written tests and assignments- 60%
Class participation and required performance attendance-40%
Eighth Grade General
Unit six
Discuss ways in which dynamics and tempo affect mood in music. Perform accompaniments including rhythmic and melodic motives. Aurally and visually identify phrases of different lengths.
Unit seven
Identify rhythmic motives and legato and staccato articulation. Discuss and identify sonata allegro form and free form. Identify musical characteristics of the classical and neoclassical style period. Identify program music.
Unit eight
Discuss traditional and nontraditional tone colors. Perform vocal tone colors. Listen to and identify prepared piano, synthesizer, pipe organ and steel band. Identify new sounds from found objects. Discuss ways to produce new sounds from voices and traditional instruments.
Read and perform a rhythm score and pitch sounds from a score.
Grading
Written tests and assignments- 60%
Class participation and required performance attendance-40%
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LCDS ORCHESTRAS-
Individual playing assessments- one point for each exercise or song “passed off.”
You may also turn in a paper with your private teacher’s signature and date of your lesson for five points.
A+ is achieved by accumulating 46 or more points. Also, the student must not have more than ten points in deductions.
45 and above=A
42-44=A-
39-41=B+
36-38=B
33-35=B-
30-32=C+
27-29=C
24-26=C-
21-23=D+
18-20=D
15-17=D-
below 15=F
Five exercises or teacher signature due each assignment.
Due Mondays- 3/10, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 6/2
One point is deducted for each day late with assignment. TWENTY points are deducted for each class without a book or without an instrument.
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