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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Concert Band
High School
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
Course Description: This course is open to wind and percussion instrumentalists. The Concert Band
curriculum teaches technical, rhythmic, listening, translative, analytical, and performance skills through
advanced literature in a historical and multi-cultural context. Performances are a logical outgrowth of the
integrated instrumental music curriculum, which may include concerts, festivals, solos, ensembles, recitals
and appearances within the community when appropriate. Members participate in one varsity football
game with the Symphony Band. After school rehearsals and performances are required. Concert Band
participates in band camp in August at the Interlochen Center For The Arts, Interlochen, Michigan. This
course meets the State of Michigan Fine Arts graduation requirement. This class meets daily and may be
repeated for credit.
Component Goals: Technical Skills
1. Students will demonstrate proper instrument care and maintenance
2. Refine and enhance proper playing position.
3. Increase knowledge and refinement of proper posture
4. Develop and refine tone production
5. Increased knowledge and sensitivity for articulation
6. Increase technical development
7. Increase knowledge and sensitivity for finger/position selection
8. Refine mechanics and alternate methods for tuning
9. Increase knowledge, skill, and sensitivity for vibrato application
10. Expand range through use of advanced positions / alternate fingerings
11. Introduce and develop awareness to environmental conditions.
12. Introduce and develop knowledge and sensitivity for ornamentation
13. Introduce and develop advanced performance skills
14. Develop and refine scale patterns
Student Outcomes:
The student will:
1. Recognize and apply instrument maintenance:
a. With an expanded knowledge of reed, mouthpiece, mallet and care and selection
b. With an awareness of seasonal changes of instruments
c. And follow standard lubrication practices for instruments
d. By following standard percussion head replacement practices
e. Awareness of instrument accessories available
f. Awareness of professional maintenance needs
2. Demonstrate proper posture and playing position
3. Demonstrate levels of refinement for tone production, mallet / stick technique, articulation, and
finger/position selection.
4. Demonstrate various articulations via playing on instruments and writing music
5. Recognize and develop technical skills on wind and percussion instruments
6. Recognize and anticipate the use of alternate finger / position selection
7. Demonstrate increased proficiency for tuning within 3 cents
a. Pitch to pitch
b. Using 4ths and 5ths
c. Using octaves
8. Recognize and demonstrate proper use of vibrato in relation to stylistic consideration
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Recognize and perform ornamentation including grace notes, trills, mordents, and turns
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Course Name:
Grade Level:
Course Length:
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
2. Read, identify, and perform irregular or asymmetrical groupings 5/8, 7/8, 5/4, 2 /2 & 2/4, syncopation,
borrowed divisions
3. Understand and perform with sensitivity the relationships of various patterns
4. Understand, identify and take part in the performance of polyrhythmic patterns
5. Develop and refine subdivision of beat and pulse
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
Student Outcomes:
The student will:
1. Understand and recognize with accuracy all major, minor, augmented and diminished intervals.
2. Understand and recognize with 90% accuracy all unisons, octaves, fourths, and fifths.
3. Identify melody, harmony, tonality, sequence, counter-melody, accompaniment, texture, and balance.
4. Identify various performance styles
5. Recognize pitch, intensity, timbre, and duration.
6. Recognize, anticipate, and adjust to the acoustical environment.
7. Identify aurally the instruments of the orchestra and band
8. Evaluate appropriate tone quality, rhythmic interpretation, phrasing, form, expression, and dynamics.
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Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
Student Outcomes:
The student will:
1. Read, count and perform advanced notation.
a. Rhythm
b. Terms
c. Interpretative symbols
d. Articulation symbols
e. Symbols of notation used in new and experimental music
2. Demonstrate standard articulation patterns
3. Recognize, perform, and demonstrate standard performance practices
4. Demonstrate the elements of music in a creative asthetic manner
5. Sight-read music equivalent in complexity to MSBOA proficiency II by grade 12
6. Demonstrate melodic and rhythmic dictation skills including 8th notes and intervals up to Perfect 5ths
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
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Student Outcomes:
The student will:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of motivic development
a. Augmentation
b. Diminution
c. Mutation
d. Sequence (real and tonal)
e. Tonal Centers
f. Ornamentation
g. Cadential extension
2. Understanding historical forms and styles
3. Understanding how compositional techniques effect aesthetic response
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
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The following periods and styles will be studied in depth on a four-year progression.
Renaissance/Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Twentieth Century/Contemporary
Student Outcomes:
Through listening, study, and/or performance experience(s), the student will be able to:
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Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
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Music is a reflection of the nature of the culture, historical period or social context from which it
comes.
Music of each culture has its own set of aesthetic values.
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The values of a society determine the status of its creators and performers.
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Musical knowledge enables the development of tolerance and respect for tradition and innovation.
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Composers and performers are artist creating or expressing their ideas through music.
Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
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Concert Band
9-12
1-4 years
Content Outline:
1. Develop tone production skills on student chosen instrument.
2. Develop reading and performance techniques for advanced wind band music.
3. Develop and use tuning, listening and rehearsal techniques for the large wind ensemble.
4. Read, rehearse and perform music from the renaissance/baroque, classical, romantic, and 20th century.
5. Examine individual composers styles and form usage; for example, examine Haydns use of sonata
allegro form in Symphony #102 in D Major The London first movement.
6. Closely analyze a period of music. According to the 4-year progression, study and compare the
historical, musical, and performance practices of the time periods. For example, examine the romantic
period and the concept of national pride in music by playing a concert with German, French, English,
and Italian music from that period.
7. Write a 2-3 page paper on a composer/composition giving an overview. Share this information with
the class.
8. Discuss theoretical and aesthetic elements in each period of music.
9. Discuss the importance of instrumental maintenance through hands-on demonstrations, information
work sheets, and clinics. Attend a concert or listen to professional recordingts to develop aesthetic
literacy.
10. Perform and evaluate individual/group musical experiences. For example: Perform on a concert,
review concert through audio/video recordings, and then follow with discussion/evaluation.
11. Discuss and develop the values of commitment, discipline, determination, team-building, self
motivation, and personal responsibility.
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Selected tapes, slides, recordings, computer software and other audio-visual aids.
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