8th Grade Band

Students Will Know/ Students Will Be Able To...

Report Card Skill: Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

For this skill, students will know: For this skill, students will be able to: ● March style ● Recognize the style of each piece ● Legato/lyrical style

Report Card Skill: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

For this skill, students will know: For this skill, students will be able to: ● Expressive terms: landing points/points of ● Interpret and accurately perform the repose, agogic weight expressive qualities of musical phrasing ● Embouchure/stick and mallet technique with agogic weight ● Characteristic tone of their instrument ● Demonstrate and execute proper ● Intonation – beatless tuning, scale/melodic embouchure/stick and mallet technique tuning ● Demonstrate and execute characteristic ● Transposition terms: concert pitch, tone on their instrument instrument pitch ● Demonstrate and execute proper ● Time signatures: 5/8, 7/8, 12/8 intonation in most harmonic settings and ● pairings and their fingerings in horizontal movement in solo playing ● Key signatures: Concert , D, , D-Flat ● Transpose concert pitch to their ● Process to build a major scale instrument pitch and their instrument pitch ● Rhythmic markings their values both in to concert pitch the form of notes and rests: quarter note ● Read and accurately perform articulation triplets, single /continuing markings as they appear in their music syncopation ● Read and accurately perform rhythmic markings as they appear in their music ● Build and execute major scales in the keys of Concert C, D, A, D-Flat

Report Card Skill: Convey meaning through presentation of artistic work.

For this skill, students will know: For this skill, students will be able to: ● The difference between the rehearsal and ● Accurately present and perform select performance setting music as a group in front of a variety of ● Expressive terms: landing points/points of audiences repose, agogic weight ● Interpret and accurately perform the ● Embouchure/stick and mallet technique expressive qualities of musical phrasing ● Characteristic tone of their instrument with agogic weight ● Intonation – beatless tuning, scale/melodic ● Demonstrate and execute proper tuning embouchure/stick and mallet technique

8th Grade Band

● Time signatures: 5/8, 7/8, 12/8 ● Demonstrate and execute characteristic ● Enharmonic pairings and their fingerings tone on their instrument ● Key signatures: Concert C, D, A, D-Flat ● Demonstrate and execute proper ● Rhythmic markings their values both in intonation in most harmonic settings and the form of notes and rests: quarter note in horizontal movement in solo playing triplets, single beat/continuing ● Read and accurately perform articulation syncopation markings as they appear in their music ● Read and accurately perform rhythmic markings as they appear in their music