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Phone: 651-748-6645
Fax: 651-748-6591
E-mail: ksmelser@isd622.org Congratulations to all the participants in the 2010 Honors Concert!
Jazz Band
There will be no morning rehearsal the week of March 22 - 26
We will be performing for the touring 5th graders on
Wednesday, March 24 - you will need to wear your jazz shirts!!
SPRING BAND CONCERT DATES
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
6th & 7th Bands & Jazz Band
7:00 PM Tartan Auditorium
Thursday, June 3rd
8th Grade Band & Jazz Band
7:00 PM Tartan Auditorium
6th GRADE MUSIC APPRECIATION
12/7 - Intro to the Middle Ages
Begin Musical Coat of Arms-rough draft
12/8 - Gregorian Chant
Article to read with questions to answer
Finish Musical Coat of Arms - rough draft
12/9 - Work on and turn-in Musical Coat of Arms
Final Project
12/10 - Medieval Secular Music
Learn ballad, "Sir Eglamore"
12/11 - Present Musical Coat of Arms to class
Review Medieval vocab learned so far
12/14 - Writing a Medieval Ballad
Activity - Ust "Sir Eglamore" to learn about
and practice rhyming words & counting syllables
Explain directions for the Writing a Ballad assignment
12/15 - Music of the Renaissance
Short article to read
Listening - motet, mass, madrigal
Discuss acappella vs. polyphonic music
Popular instruments of the Renaissance
12/16 - Medieval Music Overview
Hand out test review
Review game to practice for test
12/17 - Renaissance Music Overview
12/18 - Medieval & Renaissance Music History Test
1/4 - Begin Instruments of the Orchestra Unit - Woodwinds
Introduce "The Music Man"
1/5 - Instruments of the Orchestra - Strings
Continue "The Music Man"
1/6 - Hand out Orchestra Project - DUE WED, JAN 13
Continue "The Music Man"
1/7 - Instruments of the Orchestra - Brass
"Music Man"
1/8 - Instruments of the Orchestra - Percussion
"Music Man"
1/11 - Orchestra Seating Chart, role of each instrument within orchestra
The role of a conductor/director
"Music Man"
1/12 - Instruments of the orchestra review day
Remind students that the Orchestra Project is due tomorrow
1/13 - Present Orchestra Projects (due today!)
Instruments of the Orchestra Test
1/14 - BAROQUE UNIT
Hand out list of Baroque listening & terms
Article & Questions of the music of J.S. Bach
Listening: BACH "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"
1/15 - Article & Questions on George Friedrich Handel
Listening: HANDEL "The Hallelujah Chorus"
1/19 - Pachabell - Canon in D Listening Exercise
Work on Listening Notes
1/20 - Vivaldi, Listening: "The Four Seasons"
1/21 - Fugue, Canon & Suite
1/22 - Listening and Vocab
1/25 - Practice quiz on listening
1/26 - Hand out Baroque Times Project (Due 2/3)
1/27 - "Bach's Fight for Freedom"
1/28 - "Bach's Fight for Freedom"
2/1 - The Harpsichord & The Organ
2/2 - Baroque Vocab and Listening Review
2/3 - Baroque Times Projects Due
Project Presentations
2/4 - Baroque Era Review Day
2/5 - Baroque Era Written and Listening Tests
2/8 - The History of the American Musical
2/9 - Introduction to the Musical Form
Begin watching "The Sound of Music"
2/10 - The Purpose of the Songs in a Musical
"The Sound of Music"
2/11 - Behind the Scenes at a Musical
"The Sound of Music"
2/12 - Famous Songs from Musicals
2/16 - The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers
Finish "The Sound of Music"
2/17 - Concert Programs Unit
Tempo Terms in Concert Programs
2/18 - Learning to Read a Professional Program
Designing an Orchestra Program
Bring markers/crayons
2/19 - Work on Program Project
Bring markers/crayons
2/22 - World Instrument Unit
Aerophones, Chordophones
Idiophones, Membranophones
Hand out Instrument Project (due 3/2)
2/23 - Carribean
2/24 - West Africa
2/25 - Japan
2/26 - India
3/1 - Drumming
3/2 - African Drumming
3/3 - Instrument Project Presentations
3/4 - "Oliver" Synopsis, Act I/beginning
Discuss the Poor Law and the plight of the paupers
3/5 - Begin "Oliver" Read plot for Act I/second half
3/8 - Continue "Oliver" Read plot for Act II/beginning
3/9 - Continue "Oliver" Read plot for Act II/second half
3/10 - Finish "Oliver"
End of Trimester 2
8th Grade Music Appreciation
** This is a shared class with Ms. Guetter**
JAZZ UNIT
Day 1: Basic Elements of Jazz
Day 2: Ragtime: (1880s – early 1900s)
Day 3: The Blues: (1900s – 1920s)
Day 4: The Birth of the Blues
Day 5: Women With The Blues: Then & Now
Day 6: Early Jazz: Dixieland (1917-1920s)
Day7: Big Band: The Early Years
Day 8: Big Band Boom
Day 9: Big Band Music: Post War to the Present
Day 10: Jazz: Bebop
Day 11: Jazz: Cool Jazz
Day 12: Latin-Influenced Jazz
Day 13: Free Jazz
Day 14: The Blues Begin to Rock
Day 15: Jazz Rock
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