Beginning Band

AGENDA

24 Sept 2018

  1. Attendance

  1. Housekeeping

Binder Check - Place all binders on the front desk

  1. Quiz

  1. A Closer Look: The Brass Family (continued)
  1. French horn trials
  2. Low Brass trials

OBJECTIVES - Same as last Agenda

  1. Students will identify basic music notation terms and apply the knowledge to begin reading notes in treble clef.
  2. Students will study brass instruments further.

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.

Brass Instruments

  1. Produce sound by buzzing of lips
  2. Originally made of brass (a copper and zinc alloy)
  3. Valves - except for the trombone (slide)
  1. Pistons
  2. Rotary
  1. Bell
  2. Cup-shaped mouthpiece
  3. Tuning slide

Trumpet

French horn

Trombone

Euphonium (baritone)

Tuba

Sousaphone

Flugelhorn

Cornet

Mellophone

Bugle

Trumpet

  1. Ease of buzzing:          easy                        medium                hard
  2. Sound:                        I don’t like it                I like it                        I love it
  3. Other Comments:

French horn

Trombone

Baritone

Tuba