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Grade of MusicI-IIII-IIIII-IVIII-IVIV-VI
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Playing Year1-23-456-86-8
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School Grade5-67-8
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Daily Expectation•Students should know how to reference the fingering chart in their method book.•Students should know the fingerings for all notes and selected alternate fingerings for intonation purposes on their instrument from memory.•Students should know the fingerings for all notes and selected alternate fingerings for intonation purposes on their instrument from memory.•Students should know the fingerings for all notes on their instrument from memory, including alternate technical fingerings for intonation purposes.•Students should know the fingerings for all notes on their instrument from memory, including alternate technical fingerings for intonation purposes.
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•Students will perform simple rhythmic and melodic examples in call-and-response styles.
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•Students will use vibrato when characteristic for their instrument, alternate fingerings, trills, and grace notes when performing on wind instruments.•Students will use vibrato when characteristic for their instrument, alternate fingerings, trills, and grace notes when performing on wind instruments.
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•Students should recognize and perform musical ornaments (i.e. trills, grace notes, glissando, etc.)•Students should recognize and interpret musical ornaments in a stylistically correct manner(i.e. trills, grace notes, glissando, etc.)
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•Students will maintain attendance with required materials
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•Students will demonstrate completion of assignments and/or practice.
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•Students will use vibrato when characteristic for their instrument, alternate fingerings, trills, and grace notes when performing on wind instruments.
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 •Students will maintain attendance with required materials•Students will maintain attendance with required materials•Students will use embellishments, extreme tessitura, and a variety of timbre effects when performing on wind instruments.
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 •Students will demonstrate completion of assignments and/or practice.•Students will demonstrate completion of assignments and/or practice.
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•Students will demonstrate knowledge of alternate fingerings for intonation purposes •Students will maintain attendance with required materials•Students will maintain attendance with required materials
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•Students will demonstrate
completion of assignments
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Posture•Students will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.•Students will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.•Students will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.•Students will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.•Students will demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing position.
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Tone •Students will produce tones that are clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.•Students will produce characteristic tone that is clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.•Students will produce characteristic tone that is clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.•Students will produce characteristic tone that is clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.•Students will produce characteristic tone that is clear, free of tension, sustained, and unwavering in pitch.
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Intonation•Students will recognize the concept of flat or sharp in regard to intonation.•Students will recognize the concept of flat or sharp in regard to intonation.•Students will recognize the concept of flat or sharp in regard to intonation.•Students should understand and correct intonation on their instrument without teacher prompts.•Students will adjust harmonic tuning is accordance with the rules of Just Tuning
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•Student will be able to tune tympani from a generated pitch•Student will be able to tune tympani from a generated pitch
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•Student will be able to tune tympani independently
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•Student will be able to tune tympani from a generated pitch
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•Students will demonstrate knowledge of all fingerings by memory including alternate fingerings for intonation purposes
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•Students will demonstrate knowledge on alternate fingerings for intonation purposes
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•Students will demonstrate knowledge on alternate fingerings for intonation purposes
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Tempo •Students will demonstrate steady tempo while performing materials being studied.•Students will perform tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters through materials being studied.•Students will perform tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters through materials being studied.•Students will perform tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters through materials being studied.•Students will perform tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters through materials being studied.
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Articulation •Students will demonstrate tonguing and slurring techniques.•Students will demonstrate staccato, legato tongue, accent, marcato, and tenuto on wind instruments.•Students will demonstrate staccato, legato tongue, accent, marcato, and tenuto on wind instruments.•Students will demonstrate a variety of articulations including double-tongue and breath attacks if applicable for the instrument.•Students will perform all articulations in materials being studied, including double-tongue, triple-tongue, and breath attacks if applicable for the instrument.
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•Students will select the appropriate implement with which to demonstrate these styles.•Students will select the appropriate implement with which to demonstrate these styles.
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MUSICALITY: Dynamic Contrast, Phrasing, and Expression •Students will use dynamic contrast as a means of expression, including f, p, mp, mf, crescendo, decrescendo, and diminuendo.•Students will use dynamic contrast and technical skills as means of expression.•Students will use dynamic contrast and technical skills as means of expression.•Students will use dynamic contrast and technical skills as a means of expression.•Students will use dynamic contrast and technical skills as means of expression.
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•Students will perform four bar phrases in common time in one breath.•Students will perform four bar phrases in common time in one breath.•Students will use vibrato, alternate fingerings, trills, and grace notes on wind instruments.•Students will use embellishments, extreme tessitura, and a variety of timbre effects.
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•Students will articulate four consecutive notes in one breath. They will demonstrate phrasing through the use of melodic contour, natural accents, and proper use of breath.
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•Students will demonstrate phrasing through the use of dynamics, tempo, and melodic contour.•Students will demonstrate phrasing through the use of dynamics, tempo, and melodic contour.
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•Students will perform eight bar phrases in common time in one breath.•Students will perform eight bar phrases in common time in one breath.
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•Students will demonstrate musical phrasing through dynamic emphasis and tempo modification.•Students will demonstrate musical phrasing through dynamic emphasis and tempo modification.
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Ensemble Skills •Students will blend instrumental timbres, match dynamics, style, intonation, and respond to conducting gestures in 2/4 3/4 and 4/4•Students will blend instrumental timbres, match dynamics, style, intonation, and respond to conducting gestures in simple and compound meter.•Students will blend instrumental timbres, match dynamics, style, intonation, and respond to conducting gestures in simple and compound meter.•Students will blend instrumental timbres, match dynamic levels, style, intonation, and respond to and use conducting gestures.•Students will blend instrumental timbres, match dynamic levels, style, intonation, and respond to and use conducting gestures.
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Scales and Rudiments•Students will play the concert F, B-flat, E-flat, and A-flat scales, one octave.•Students will perform the E, A, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb, and Ab scales (not transposed) on wind instruments, two octaves (when appropriate), in quarter-eighth-eighth rhythm at M.M. quarter note = 100.•Students will perform the E, A, D, G, C, F, B-flat, E-flat, and A-flat scales (not transposed) on wind instruments, two octaves (when appropriate), in quarter-eighth-eighth rhythm at M.M. quarter note = 100.•Students will perform all major scales in the full range of the instrument, and all one-octave harmonic minor scales, with one-octave tonic arpeggios, ascending and descending, in quarter-eighth-eighth rhythm (M.M. quarter note = 100).•The student will perform all major and minor scales, ascending and descending, in a variety of rhythmic patterns and articulations.
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Students should be able to play a one-octave chromatic scale, ascending and descending.
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•The student will perform a chromatic scale, ascending and descending, using the MTSBOA mid-state audition tempo and range requirements for the instrument.
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••Students will perform the D-flat, G-flat/F-sharp, and B scales, one octave, in quarter-eighth-eighth rhythm at M.M. quarter note = 72.•Students will perform the D-flat, G-flat/F-sharp, and B scales, one octave, in quarter-eighth-eighth rhythm at M.M. quarter note = 72.
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•The wind/mallet student will perform a chromatic scale, ascending and descending, in sixteenth notes (M.M. quarter note = 96 or faster) throughout the practical range of the instrument.
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