Intermediate Band
AGENDA
24Â Sept 2018
- Attendance
- 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.)
- Instruments
- Playing Test
- Start from SOE exercise #21
OBJECTIVES - same as last Agenda
- Students will solidify knowledge in for previous topics.
- Students will identify basic music notation terms and apply the knowledge to begin reading notes in treble clef.
- Students will review music theory concepts.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS / SKILLS
- What is sound?
- How are instruments grouped into families?
- What are the instrument families and how do they produce sound?
- Name at least 8 instruments per family.
- What is an ensemble?
- Identify the instruments in a concert band.
- What is the biggest and most important difference between concert bands and orchestras?
- List vocal ensembles.
- List instrumental ensembles.
- What is a staff?
- Draw a proper treble clef on a staff.
- What is function of the treble clef?
- How many letters are there in the musical alphabet?
- 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.
- What is the formula for a major scale?
- What is your instrument’s transposition from concert pitch?