Intermediate Band

AGENDA

24 Sept 2018

  1. Attendance

  1. Housekeeping

Binder Check - place your binders on my desk. When you are called come up to take the quiz.

The rest should be getting ready to play (quietly.)

  1. Instruments
  1. Playing Test
  2. Start from SOE exercise #21

OBJECTIVES - same as last Agenda

  1. Students will solidify knowledge in for previous topics.
  2. Students will identify basic music notation terms and apply the knowledge to begin reading notes in treble clef.
  3. Students will review music theory concepts.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS / SKILLS

  1. What is sound?
  2. How are instruments grouped into families?
  3. What are the instrument families and how do they produce sound?
  4. Name at least 8 instruments per family.
  5. What is an ensemble?
  6. Identify the instruments in a concert band.
  7. What is the biggest and most important difference between concert bands and orchestras?
  8. List vocal ensembles.
  9. List instrumental ensembles.
  10. What is a staff?
  11. Draw a proper treble clef on a staff.
  12. What is function of the treble clef?
  13. How many letters are there in the musical alphabet?
  14. What is the rule regarding the pitches on a staff, no matter the clef? If you go up the staff, you move ______ in the alphabet. If you go down the staff, you move ______ in the alphabet.
  15. What is the formula for a major scale?
  16. What is your instrument’s transposition from concert pitch?