ho the Tradition o Excellence band method addresses each o the grade 8 national standards Contained in this booklet are ust a e o the many exercises included in the Tradition o Excellence band method designed to hel the student meet and surass each o the grade 8 National Standards 0 Neil A Kos Music Comany
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bruce Pearson gre u in Bloomington Minnesota He has taught at the elementary unior high high school and college levels or over 0 years In December o 998 Dr Pearson as aarded the restigious Midest Clinic Medal o Honor in recognition o his outstanding contributions to music education In 007 he as the reciient o the Distinguished Alumni aard at St Cloud State University Also in 007 he as recognized as the irst Patron or the Maryborough Conerence in Queensland Australia Dr Pearson continues to serve as a guest lecturer clinician and conductor in addition to his ork as a comoser arranger and author Dr Pearson and his ie Dee resently live in Elk River Minnesota a art o the Minneaolis-St Paul metroolitan area Ryan Nolin a native o Cleveland Ohio holds both his Bachelor o Music and Master o Music degrees rom Boling Green State University (Ohio) He has taught or ten years at the beginning middle school high school and college levels including ind ensemble azz ensemble and marching band direction Mr Nolin as an instructor o conducting and band scoring at BGSU and as recently recognized as one o the university s Accomlished Graduates In 00 Mr Nolin oined The President s On United States Marine Band here he currently serves as sta arranger This ork resented by the ublisher has been reared by Ryan Nolin in an unoicial caacity and neither The President s On United States Marine Band the US Marine Cors nor any other comonent o the Deartment o Deense or the US Government has endorsed this material
NATIONAL STANDARDS OR ARTS EDUCATION: MUSIC What every young American should kno and be able to do in music Grades 8 Each musicianshi standard that is addressed by the exercise is identiied above the exercise 3 Content Standard: Singing alone and ith others a varied reertoire o music Achievement Standards a sing accurately and ith good breath control throughout their singing ranges alone and in small and large ensembles Interactive Teacher Studio Book age 6 Singing is critical to the comlete develoment o instrumental music students and should be a art o training rom the very beginning Singing hels to develo their audiation skills that is or the students to be able to hear the music beore they lay it A good vocal arm-u is essential at the start o any lesson that includes singing Emloy arm-us such as the one belo that relax the voice and romote good vocal health BASIC WARM-UP OR SINGING Loosen u: Have students shake out their arms and legs to release tension in their muscles Establish osture: Tell students to stand/sit u straight as i an invisible string attached to the to o their heads is holding them u Develo breathing: Have students take a breath ithout liting their shoulders Then hile keeing a steady beat have them ush out the air using a continuous sss or sound telling them to make sure all o the air is exhaled by the time eight counts have assed Reeat varying number o counts Rhythmic sizzling (or examle vocalizing sss in a series o quarter note bursts) can also be used hen exelling the air or more detailed inormation on breathing develoment see Teaching Band With Excellence ages 3-33 Warm-u and relax the voice: Create an exercise using three or our notes in a steise attern Sing the exercise on ah or oo and have students echo you Start in the middle register then reeat the exercise a e more times starting the exercise a hal ste higher or loer each time Sing a note using ah or oo slide u to a note a ith above it then slide back don again Have students echo you Move u and don by hal stes Tell students to try to eel their voice singing all o the itches in beteen the beginning and ending notes Have students vocalize siren-like sounds that see rom lo to high and back to lo Use the syllable oo and have students accomany the see o sound ith an arm gesture that matches the itch contour Begin in the middle register at a lo volume increasing the range and volume as the arm-u rogresses Bb Clarinet Book age 3 interval 3 Excellence in Theory A Play and sing the olloing intervals nd 3rd th th 6th 7th octave (8th)
b sing ith exression and technical accuracy music reresenting diverse genres and cultures ith exression aroriate or the ork being erormed Conductor Score Book age 3 Student age 0 San Serení Test 3 Written assessments are also a valuable ay to evaluate student rogress Assess students understanding o concets introduced by having them comlete the Tradition o Excellence Quiz available on score age 7 Students are reared or this quiz ater comleting age 3 San Serení is ronounced sahn seh-reh-nee The quiz and anser key are also available in the Interactive Teacher Studio 0 San Serení TEST Puerto Rican olk Song l Ob San Se - re - ní de la bue - na bue - na vi - - da B Cl B B Cl # E A Sax E B Sax B T Sax B Tt Bar TC b Hn Trb Bar BC Bsn Tuba Mlts ã ith SD stick S Cym O O O ã L R L L R L R R L R R L R L SD BD z z z z Accom OR HORNS ONLY B b 7 B b 7 B b 7 B b 7 E b Cmi W6
b sing ith exression continued rom age Conductor Score Book age 3 Camton Races Student age 0 Lesson Plan Tradition o Excellence Quiz Excellence in Theory Teaching Band ith Excellence Interactive Teacher Studio Score age 7 Theory Concets 000-000 Toic 000-000 Musicianshi Singing Perorming 3 Imrovising Comosing Arranging Reading Notating Standards 6 Listening Analyzing 7 Evaluating 8 Interdiscilinary Relationshis 9 Historical Cultural Relationshis Obectives or Student Learning Identiy deine and erorm a one-measure reeat sign Aurally identiy and notate itches and rhythms Locate the United States on a orld ma and share inormation about this country Share inormation about Stehen oster Perorm ith lyrics and share inormation about Camton Races Discuss the history act and deine oular music Student Text Dra the missing notes in the ovals beore you lay History: Stehen oster America s irst great oular songriter as born on the 0th anniversary o American Indeendence: the ourth o uly 86 3 Camton Races Stehen oster (86 86) l Ob c Solo/Soli Tutti American Comoser B Cl B B Cl E A Sax E B Sax B T Sax B Tt Bar TC Hn Trb Bar BC Bsn Tuba Mlts c c c c c c c c Cam - ton la - dies Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli Solo/Soli sing this song Doo - dah Tutti Tutti Tutti Tutti Tutti Tutti Tutti Tutti Doo - dah c B b Cmi Cmi/ 7 Accom c OR HORNS ONLY Solo/Soli c Tutti W6
6 b sing ith exression continued rom age Conductor Score Book age 8 l Ob B Cl B B Cl E A Sax E B Sax B T Sax B Tt Bar TC Hn Trb Bar BC Bsn Tuba Mlts Accom b b b b Allegro b Allegro Allegro Allegro E b b b /E b HORNS ONLY Allegro o A - lou - et - te b b b o o gen-tille a - lou - et - te B b7 Orchestration: E b o A - lou - et - te o o e te lu-me - rai B b7 ine ine ine ine E b B b7 E b ine
Content Standard: Perorming on instruments alone and ith others a varied reertoire o music 7 Achievement Standards a erorm on at least one instrument accurately and indeendently alone and in small and large ensembles ith good osture good laying osition and good breath bo or stick control Conductor Score Book age Clarinet Lesson Student ages Lesson Plan Teaching Band ith Excellence Interactive Teacher Studio Toic Musicianshi Singing Perorming 3 Imrovising Comosing Arranging Reading Notating Standards 6 Listening Analyzing 7 Evaluating 8 Interdiscilinary Relationshis 9 Historical Cultural Relationshis Clarinet Checklist Sitting u straight Clarinet in center o body ith bell near knees Clarinet at correct angle Right and let thumbs correctly laced ingers gently curved Wrists straight Elbos aay rom body Head erect Mouthiece roer distance in mouth To teeth resting directly on mouthiece Chin lat and ointed Equal ressure on all sides o mouthiece Breathing correctly Good tone roduced Check tone roduction by using ust the mouthiece and barrel Correct Concert itch: shar # ( # ) W6 Clarinet video lessons eature Aril Leslie
8 a erorm on at least one instrument continued rom age 7 Percussion Book age 6 cont (0) Mlts SD BD 0 Ronde Tielman Susato as a Renaissance comoser trumet layer Tielman Susato (c 00 c 6) TEST and music ublisher He rote mostly dance music including Ronde lemish (Belgian) Comoser b ã snares o R R L R L R L R L R L R L R L L R R L L R L R L L R L Oboe Book age 36 SOLO Rigaudon is a rench dance in dule meter that as oular during the 7th and 8th centuries Unlike many comosers o his time Telemann did not come rom a musical amily Rigaudon Solo ith Piano Accomaniment Oboe 3 Georg Phili Telemann (68 767) German Comoser Arr Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nolin Piano ḟ 6 # n b # # n 7 3 # 8 # 9 # # # n # n # n 0 # 3 # 3 # n # n # # 6 00 Kos Music Press Pages 36-37 are authorized or dulication to meet seciic requirements or estivals contests and cometitions An additional hotocoy may be distributed to an accomanist All coies must be destroyed ater the event # 7 # n 8 # # n
9 a erorm on at least one instrument continued rom age 8 Percussion Book age 33 33 ENSEMBLE The term military band as historically used to designate an instrumental ensemble made u o oodinds brass and ercussion much like today s concert band Ecossaise or Military Band as originally ritten by Beethoven in 80 or this tye o ensemble The ork is a contradance a lively dance-insired comosition in In a contradance coules aced each other in to lines It as a Classical Period redecessor to more modern orms such as square dancing Solo: Mlts A Duet: Mlts A + B Trio: Mlts A + B + C Percussion Ensemble or ull Band: All Percussion Parts (cont next age) st x = irst time through nd x = second time through Mlts Mlts Mlts C Introduction A B Ecossaise or Military Band 3 st x nd x P st Theme st x nd x P st x nd x P 6 Ludig van Beethoven (770 87) German Comoser arr Bruce Pearson 7 8 9 Mlts Mlts Mlts 0 A B C n 3 nd Theme st x nd x P st x nd x P st x nd x P 6 7 8 9 Mlts Mlts Mlts 0 A B C st Theme 3 6 7 8 W6PR
0 a erorm on at least one instrument continued rom age 9 Conductor Score age 0 0 Procession rom "Water Music" Student age 0 Student Text History: Water Music as ritten or a royal boat art on England s Thames River The orchestra layed rom one barge hile King George I and riends listened rom another vessel close by All excet ercussion: In / 3/ and other time signatures «insert hole rest» indicates a ull measure o rest lute Oboe B Clarinet B Bass Clarinet Bassoon E Alto Saxohone B Tenor Saxohone E Baritone Saxohone B Trumet Horn Trombone Baritone Tuba Bells # # b Introduction 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Procession George rideric Handel (68 79) rom Water Music English Comoser arr Ryan Nolin 3 st Theme 6 7 8 Piano Reduction W6 SD BD ã 3 z z z z 3 3
b erorm ith exression and technical accuracy varied reertoire o instrumental literature ith a diiculty o 3 on a scale to 6 including some solos erormed rom memory Bb Clarinet Book age 0 SOLO Concert Etiquette Bb Clarinet b Piano % b b b Solo ith Piano Accomaniment Ryan Nolin (b 978) Andante (q = 66) American Comoser Andante (q = 66) Enter the stage or erormance area conidently Make eye contact ith the audience and smile Stand or sit tall Be ositive and energetic It s un to share your music ith others! 6 Hunting Song 3 7 8 3 9 % b b b 0 To Coda i b b To Coda i # # n 3 n # n # n # n P n n # 6 # 7 { 8 # 9 # 00 Neil A Kos Music Comany Pages 0 and are authorized or dulication to meet seciic requirements or estivals contests and cometitions An additional hotocoy may be distributed to an accomanist All coies must be destroyed ater the event
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b erorm ith exression continued rom age 3 Conductor Score Book irst score age Rain Dance lute Oboe Bb Cl Eb A Cl Bb B Cl Bsn Eb A Sax Bb T Sax Eb B Sax Bb Tt/Cor Hn Trb Bar/Euh BC BBb Tuba E Bass Bells Snare Drum Bass Drum Crash Cymbals Susended Cymbal Maracas Drum Set (otional) Piano Reduction # # # b ã ã ã div div div div # # # # # # CC y Ó # Cr Cym Rain Dance 3 Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó Ó sus cym / stick Ó Ride Cymbal y y y y y y y y Ó # # # # # y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y # Dean Sorenson (b 963) American Comoser 6 shaker (6)
Bb syncoation Clarinet 3 Book Sound age o 30 Syncoation The bottom line rovides the basic ulse Oboe Book age 3 Percussion Book age 3 cont Bb Clarinet Book age 7 c erorm music reresenting diverse genres and cultures ith exression aroriate or the ork being erormed c 7 Theme rom The Sleeing Beauty Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ritardando In 89 Tchaikovsky traveled to America or the oening o Carnegie Circle the notes changed by the key signature Hall in Ne York City RH don = kee right hand ingers don Mlts Mcas Cbl SD BD b 3Allegro P { # b # rit RH don (80 893) Russian Comoser n ḟ U P 33 Sleeing Princess Check your Tri and C Cyms technique by revieing ages 3 and 7 Sedish olk Song # 3 ã 33 Sleeing Princess Which ingering should you use hen laying on this song Sedish olk Song 3 Skill Builder: Samba-lêlê ã ã 3 Excellence in Theory TEST Brazilian olk Song æ 3 cont A Write these temo marks in the correct blanks: sloest astest Andante Allegro 8 The Galay Pier Irish Reel b P B Write these dynamic marks in the correct blanks: sotest loudest W6PR
d lay by ear simle melodies on a melodic instrument Key Theory Signature Comosition B maor (Concert A maor) lay or sing every B Bb Trumet Book age 0 3 as Camton B every E as ERaces Stehen oster c Solo/Soli 3 bb Notes Dra the missing notes in the ovals C blues beore scale you (Concert lay B blues) Stehen oster America s irst great oular songriter as born on the 0th anniversary o (86 86) American Indeendence: the ourth o uly 86 American Comoser Tutti Until recently Solo/Soli musicologists thought this Tutti iece as ritten by ohann Sebastian Bach German Comoser 6 Sight-Reading Challenge: Minuet Christian Petzold (c677 733) Ó Bb Trumet Book age 7 El Encanto Excellence in Ear Training 3 8 B Maor Scale Areggio and Chords (Concert A Maor) Write the melody o My Country Tis o Thee / God Save the King in the sta rovided Several notes are ritten to hel you Circle the notes changed by the B Maor (Concert A Maor) key signature highlighted in urle Circle the notes changed by the key signature 9 Skill Builder Trombone Book age 9 3 Excellence in Ear Training b c Listen Play 3 Listen Practice ith the recorded accomaniment Listen in measures 3 and 7 In measures 6 and 8 echo hat you heard Your starting notes are shon Play Listen 6 Play 7 Listen 8 Play 60 Botany Bay Australian olk Song Clarinet Book age 3 W6TB Blues Scale 6 Excellence in Ear Training Listen Play Play the Blues Scale at the to o the age Practice ith the recorded accomaniment Listen in measures 3 and 7 In measures 6 and 8 echo hat you heard Your starting notes are shon Only the notes o the blues scale ill be used Listen Play Listen Play Listen Play
6 e erorm in grous blending instrumental timbres matching dynamic levels and resonding to the cues o the conductor erorm indeendent instrumental arts hile other students lay contrasting arts Conductors Score Book st age o age Gregorian Chant Ritual lute Oboe Bb Cl Eb A Cl Bb B Cl Bsn Eb A Sax Bb T Sax Eb B Sax Bb Tt/Cor Hn Trb Chant-like q = 60 # # # b Chant-like q = 60 Gregorian Chant and Dance 3 P P 6 n 6 n 7 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Ryan Nolin (b978) American Comoser 8 n n Bar/Euh BC 3 BBb Tuba 3 E Bass Timani Bells Snare Drum Bass Drum Shaker Susended Cymbal Triangle Tambourine Crash Cymbals Chant-like q = 60 / sot mlts æ G D ã ã æ shaker - stir (ot rainstick) æ æ do not damen æ BD / lg ool mlt strike in center o drum æ æ æ æ 6 æ æ / hard rubber mlts n Ó 3 3 æ 3 3 3 æ æ æ n Ó Piano Reduction Chant-like q = 60 P 6 n 3 3 n
0 Skill Builder: Cindy American olk Song Allegretto 7 3 Content Standard: Imrovising melodies variations and accomaniments Achievement Standards Eighth Note a imrovise simle harmonic accomaniments Trilet b imrovise melodic embellishments and simle rhythmic and melodic variations Rhythm on given entatonic melodies in maor keys c imrovise short melodies unaccomanied and over given rhythmic accomaniments each in a consistant style meter and tonality other counting 39 Little Donkey Chinese olk Song Trombone Book age 6 Use the alternate ingering on notes ith * 06 D Maor Scale Areggio and Chords (Concert C Maor) theme 9 Bingo in urle Variations ) Play the black notes hich make u the theme TEST Chords American olk Song variation Bb Clarinet Book age Stars o the Heavens Duet ṗ Mexican olk Song Using the notes rom the blues scale imrovise a musical 08 73 Excellence Rhythm Time in Imrovisation ) Write in the counting and cla the resonse rhythm beore to the you musical lay call ) Play on the on recorded the note D accomaniment (Concert C) A B (lay three times) h q q e Call and Resonse c # # # Ó unis unis b # b # nb Call b Resonse Call b Resonse C Bb Trumet Book age h q 3 Triumhal March rom Aïda Giusee Verdi s name in Giusee Verdi (83 90) Maestoso 3 English translates Bb Clarinet Book age 3 to oe Green Italian - Comoser h q 3 3 q e ris licks q e b Cla b Cla 0 Rhythm Time Skill Builder 0 Excellence in Imrovisation Excellence In Imrovisation A b # # b # b b C Name the key o 39 Little Donkey b # nb b COUNTING CONDUCTING counting te ta te ta ) Write in the counting and cla the rhythm beore you lay ) Play on the note D (Concert C ) 09 Dance osey TEST American olk Song # Maor Scale ) Add the gray notes Areggio hich # make u the variation div U b 07 Sight Reading Challenge: Suliram Duet Circle the notes changed Indonesian olk Song Andante div by the key signature P # # C A Practice the olloing licks Lick Lick c b b b Lick 3 # b The Circle the notes changed by the D maor (Concert C maor) key signature highlighted Ó I Using itches rom the Blues scale imrovise a melody B (lay three times) B c (lay three times) IV I V 7 I In the bars notated ith slashes imrovise your on solo based on the C blues (Concert B ) scale Use ne ideas or the licks you kno
8 round 3 Skill Builder: Merrily We Roll Along Count cla sing and lay! counting When you e reach a the e Traditional Rhythm sixteenth note a 8 Content The Galay Standard: Pier Comosing and arranging music ithin seciied Irish Reel guidelines b Itsy Bitsy Sider Round Add brackets to sho the hrases Traditional Achievement Standards Comose short ieces ithin seciied guidelines demonstrating ho the elements o music are used to achieve unity and variety tension and release and balance 8 Skill Builder Eb Soli Alto Saxohone A La Book Rueda age 7 Sanish olk Song Allegretto Trombone Book age 9 # 3 c 66 Excellence in Comosition: Carnival o Venice Italian olk Song # 3 83 Rhythm Time Allegretto Bb Clarinet Book age 7 Bb Clarinet Book age 9 ) Play the theme ) Add eighth notes ater some o the quarter notes to comose a variation as in 9 Bingo Variations Bonus: Imrovise a variation! 6 Love Somebody Duet Traditional # RHYTHM STUDIES: # 0 8 Sourood Mountain American olk Song Allegretto 7 Good King Wenceslas Traditional English Carol # c b b b b b b b b b b Cla 8 Excellence in Comosition ) Dra a bass cle ) Comlete and lay your comosition Title 8 Big Rock Candy Mountain TEST American olk Song Comoser Allegretto b b end o the song reeat once rom the beginning combinations other counting COUNTIN CONDUCT P b 3 W6TB b # # 86 Excellence in Comosition eighth/ ) Write in the counting and cla the rhythm beore you lay ) Play on the note G (Concert ) ) Add a temo dynamics and slurs ) Comlete and lay your comosition Don t orget to add the inal barline! 33 Excellence in Comosition In the key o D minor (Concert C minor) rite an original our-bar melody You may use the natural harmonic or melodic minor scales Be sure to Title include your cle key signature temo slurs and dynamics To notes have been suggested Give your comosition a title and lay it
9 Content Standard: Reading and notating music Achievement Standards a read hole hal quarter sixteenth and dotted notes and rests in 3 6 8 3 8 and alla breve meter signatures b identiy and deine standard notation symbols or itch rhythm dynamics temo articulation and exression Eb Alto Saxohone Book age Rhythm eighth note = / count o sound in or c a single eighth note has a lag a grou o eighth notes is connected by a beam COUNTING CONDUCTING 3 or c counting 3 other counting Warm-u: Breath Suort Challenge Take a dee breath and lay ith your best tone hile holding the itch or as long as you can On hich beat did you inish c 3 6 7 8 9 0 3 6 7 8 9 0 3 6 7 8 U 9 30 3 3 3 Eic Eighth Notes The bottom line rovides the basic ulse Cla Michael innegan Count cla sing and lay! Irish olk Song # Eighth Note Escaade Cla 6 Skill Builder: Processional Dance Count cla sing and lay! Renaissance Dance Music # c U 7 Baa Breeze TEST # c 8Alto Saxohone Private Lesson ) Write the note names ) ill in the ingering chart or each note W6XE B
06 D Maor Scale Areggio and Chords (Concert C Maor) 0 in urle continued rom age 9 # Chords Maor Scale # Areggio # # b b div U Bb Tenor Saxohone Book age I IV I V 7 I 07 tie 36 Sight Rhythm Reading Time Challenge: ) Write the Suliram counting and Duet cla the rhythm Circle beore the you notes lay changed ) Play on the note Indonesian D (Concert olk C) Song Andante by the key signature Bb Trumet Book age Bb Clarinet Book age 6 Bb Clarinet Book age 8 8 6 3 Rhythm Time 8 6 Allegro 3 Rhythm Time # div # C Ó P key signature 8 # # Ḃ unis unis ṗ C 8 Allegretto u b P # 8 3 div P U u P P 8 6 ) Write in the counting and cla the rhythm beore you lay ) Play on the note (Concert Eb) amaican music as heavily inluenced by the music o other Caribbean Allegro countries such as the Calyso music o Trinidad and Tobago RHYTHM STUDIES: 6 #-8 # 8 6 div # b 8 3 6 8 RHYTHM STUDIES: 6 #-8 Play several times Increase the temo each time # Allegro ( rimary beats er measure in ) until you eel to beats er measure in # b 3 8 6 8 b 8 6 TEST Allegretto b Use the alternate ingering on notes ith ( rimary beats er measure) P * * * 6 # n I se the B y that Builds the Boat RHYTHM STUDIES: #8-0; 6 #-3 37 To Ste The C maor (Concert Bb maor) key signature highlighted in urle indicates no shars or lats 08 Rhythm Time 09 Dance osey TEST American olk Song Lento # # C Warm-u Band Arrangement Andante div Practice the olloing licks 0 Excellence in Imrovisation A c c Lick # b b Lick b b # than Adagio The Circle the notes changed by the D maor (Concert C maor) key signature highlighted ) Write in the counting and cla the rhythm beore you lay ) Play on the note D (Concert C) ) Write in the counting and cla the rhythm beore you lay ) Play on the note (Concert Eb) Play 3 Rhythm Time several times Increase the temo each time until you eel to beats er measure U B U Lick 3 # b (lay three times) # b c Time Signature 6 e e e e e e Anvil Chorus rom Il Trovatore 8 This is one o the most amous choruses in all o the oeratic reertoire o the Romantic Period 3 Giusee Verdi (83 90) Lento slo = six counts er measure Maestoso Italian Comoser temo; aster = eighth note (e) gets one count counting 3 6 other counting Lento (3 beats er measure) 3 Skill Builder Terms Symbols 6 COUNTING CONDUCTING q q q q q q The Sea Duet aanese olk Song Water Come a Me Eye Duet amaican olk Song I se the B y that Builds the Boat Canadian olk Song March o the Toreadors rom Carmen Georges Bizet (838 87) Skill Builder Play 3 Rhythm Time several times Increase the temo each time until you eel to beats er measure rench Comoser
c read at sight simle melodies Trombone Book age 38 Sight-Reading Challenge: Shoo ly American olk Song Oboe Book age 7 6 Sight-Reading Challenge: Anne McGinty is one o the most roliic Anne McGinty (b 9) Theme rom Cambridge Overture American Comoser emale comosers o band music and has over ieces ublished or band orchestra and lute b c rom Cambridge Overture (Q88077) 99 Edmondson McGinty All rights assigned Queenood/Kos 00 Used ith ermission Bb Clarinet Book age 9 93 Sight Reading Challenge: Procession o the Nobles Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (8 908) Maestoso Russian Comoser b 3 b # # Bb Trumet Book age 07 Sight Reading Challenge: Suliram Duet Circle the notes changed Indonesian olk Song Andante div by the key signature # # C - - I IV P Ó # # unis ṗ I V ƒ unis U I 08 Rhythm Time C
Conductors Score Book age 8 Tradition o Excellence Quiz 3 Student Pages 7 Name Score ) Comoser Anne McGinty is rom a Ireland b Germany c England d The United States o America ) True or alse (Circle the correct anser): Sirituals are a ne musical orm created in the early art o the 0th century 3) Deine ick-u or anacrusis in your on ords ) Deine imrovisation in your on ords ) Deine theme and variation in your on ords 6) Comlete the olloing sentence by selecting the correct anser A hal ste is the interval used in Western music; on a keyboard it is the distance rom one key to the very next key hite or black a highest b loest c smallest d largest 7) Circle the to-measure rhythm erormed by your teacher a b c d «add engravings rom student book age : #3 8 and 33 I you ould like Ryan to engrave them lease let me kno» EXTRA CREDIT 8) Using the inormation rovided by your teacher give one act about each o the to countries belo a Australia b Italy 00 Kos Music Press This age authorized or dulication
Bb Clarinet Book age 7 d use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the ideas o others 3 86 Excellence in Comosition b 3 ) Add a temo dynamics and slurs ) Comlete and lay your comosition Don t orget to add the inal barline! Conductor Score Book age 07 3) Write the to-measure rhythms erormed by your teacher in the staves belo a b c Conductor Score Book age 7 6) Write the olloing to-measure rhythms erormed by your teacher on the staves belo a b c Ear Training: Dictation Pass out a iece o manuscrit aer Cla sing or erorm the olloing rhythms on an instrument o your choice Provide the students ith the time signature o the examle beore you begin Perorm each to-measure excert three times ith a ause in beteen Have the students correctly notate the to-measure rhythm on the sta aer Ear Training: Dictation ith Synchoation Pass out a iece o manuscrit aer Cla sing or erorm the olloing rhythms on an instrument o your choice Provide the students ith the time signature o the examle beore you begin Perorm each to-measure excert three times ith a ause in beteen Have the students correctly notate the to-measure rhythm on the sta aer
6 Content Standard: Listening to analyzing and desribing music Bb Clarinet Book age 3 Achievement Standards a identiy simle music orms hen resented aurally Describe seciic music events in a given aural examle using aroriate terminology 3 BAND PIECES ternary orm 7 div Introduction Maestoso div Theory Comosition ternary orm music ith three sections: Section A olloed by a contrasting Section B then Section A again trio third theme in a march tyically a contrasting section See the Conquering Hero Comes rom udas Maccabaeus udas Maccabaeus comosed in 76 is one o Handel s most amous oratorios This iece maestically commemorates the title character s victorious return rom battle 8 9 3 0 Concert Etiquette Dress nicely or every erormance I no seciic guidelines are given by your director be sure to ask hat is aroriate When you look your best the audience ill more ully areciate your laying or singing George rideric Handel (68 79) English Comoser arr Ryan Nolin Section A unis 6 3 unis 6 7 8 div unis 9 P 3 37 Ó div 0 3 6 38 Section B 33 7 unis 3 39 unis 3 3 Closing div P 8 9 Section A div 3 Ó unis 36 div 0 6 7 30 Ó unis div 8 Ó
a describe seciic music events continued rom age Interactive Practice Studio: lute Book Listen 7 Theme rom The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky irst studied to be a layer TEST Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky but eventually became a ull-time comoser (80 893) Russian Comoser Andante bb b P thanks to the suort o a ealthy atron Interactive Practice Studio: Eb Alto Saxohone Book 7 Theme rom The Sleeing Beauty Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ritardando In 89 Tchaikovsky traveled to America or the oening o Carnegie Circle every n Hall in Ne York City Listen 3Allegro P # # rit (80 893) Russian Comoser # U P Interactive Practice Studio: Clarinet Book Listen 7 Overture to The Barber o Seville Gioacchino Rossini (79 868) # Allegro # Italian Comoser Interactive Practice Studio: Bb Trumet Book Listen 3 Triumhal March rom Aïda TEST Giusee Verdi s name in Giusee Verdi (83 90) Maestoso 3 English translates to oe Green Italian Comoser 3 3 -
6 a identiy simle music orms continued rom age Eb Alto Saxohone Book age 3 trio Riverside March Ryan Nolin (b 978) Notice the key signature changes at 7 and 7 American Comoser # c Introduction st Theme 6 # 7 8 # 9 # st Theme # 3 3 0 3 Section A 9 0 P 6 6 7 n nd Theme 8 7 3 Section B Trio Ó 8-33 6 3 Ó div 36 37 38 39 0 7 # unis div 8 unis 9 div 0 unis # 3-6 # st Section A Theme 6 7 8 9 60 # Closing div 3 6-6 63 unis Ó 6 6 #
7 7 Content Standard: Evaluating music and music erormances Achievement Standards a develo criteria or evaluating the quality and eectiveness o music erormanes and comositions and aly the criteria in their ersonal listening and erorming b evaluate the quality and eectiveness o their on and others erormances comositions and arrangements by alying seciic criteria aroriate or the style o the music and oer constructive suggestions or imrovement Conductor Score Book relection orm or age 9 The Good Lie
8 8 Content Standard: Understanding relationshis beteen music the other arts and discilines outside the arts lute Book age 3 n n Mozart as a child rodigy and he traveled throughout Euroe ith his ather to dislay his talents on keyboard and violin He comosed his irst b 3 Classical Dance symhony at age 8 and his irst oera at age Wolgang Amadeus Mozart Use the alternate or thumb Bb or this entire exercise (76 79) Austrian Comoser Allegro b ḟ ṗ rit Interactive Practice Studio b AUSTRIA Name Date Peole and Culture Vienna A sraling mountainous country Austria has long been a maor oer in central Euroe The name Austria meaning eastern realm as irst coined in 996 CE to reer to German-seaking territories By the th AUSTRIA century the Austrian Habsburg dynasty began to accumulate lands throughout Euroe and eventually controlled Sain Portugal Hungary Bohemia Croatia the Netherlands and arts o Italy This oerul nation included many dierent ethnic and linguistic grous and by the late 9th century these grous began to desire indeendent nationhood In 9 a Serbian nationalist sarked World War I by assassinating the archduke o the Austrian emire Ater the ar as over the emire as dismantled to create the Reublic o Austria knon today Art and Music Vienna the caital o Austria has been a center o music and art since the rise o the Habsburgs ho ere great atrons Many amous classical comosers o the 8th and 9th centuries ere born or lived there including Mozart Beethoven and Haydn Vienna became an established location o great symhonies ballet comanies and oeras Austrian olk music iltered into classical music articularly in the orm o the altz a ballroom dance in 3 time Originating in rural villages in Austria in the 8th century the dance as originally considered to be indecent By the 9th century comoser ohann Strauss II knon as The Waltz King oularized the altz throughout Euroe His altzes increased the seed and lightness o the music so that dancers ere tirling at lightning seed around the dance loor Language Lesson German is the oicial language in Austria A oular children s song in German-seaking lands is Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken ( My Hat Has Three Corners ) The melody or the song is Carnival o Venice on age 7 o Tradition o Excellence Book Learn the ords to the song in German and English and ractice singing to the melody Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken My hat has three corners [mayn hoot dayr hat dry EK-n] Drei Ecken hat mein Hut Three corners has my hat [dry EK-n hat mayn hoot] Und hätt er nicht drei Ecken Had it not three corners [oond het ayr nicht dry EK-en] So är es nicht mein Hut It ouldn t be my hat [zo vayr es nicht mayn hoot] Trivia The Als mountain range makes u more than hal o the total area o the nation o Austria so skiing and mountaineering are oular sorts in Austria The cuisine o Austria relects its diverse ethnic heritage A oular dish to order in Vienna is Hungarian goulash a ste made o bee onions vegetables and sices Actor and governor o Caliornia Arnold Scharzenegger comes rom Austria as does che and restauranteur Wolgang Puck Quick acts Caital: Vienna Location: Central Euroe Area: 3000 sq mi Climate: Temerate and Aline Poulation: 8 million Language: German Currency: Euro Government: ederal Parliamentary Reublic Aly Your Knoledge! Write your ansers on the back or on a searate sheet o aer ) What does Austria mean ) Name three comosers ho ere born or lived in Austria 3) What is a altz and hy did it become oular ) Imagine you had the oortunity to travel to Austria What ould you like to see and do Play music by Austrian comoser Wolgang Amadeus Mozart on age 3 o Tradition o Excellence Book Worksheet ritten by Laurel Pla PhD author and editor 00 Kos Music Press This age authorized or dulication
9 Bb Clarinet Book age 9 b n # { n # { U # 3 Skill Builder: Habanera rom Carmen Use the alternate ingering Georges Bizet (838 87) * on notes ith * rench Comoser b b # # n * n b b # n ṗ Interactive Practice Studio b c RANCE # Name Date Peole and Culture rance is located on the estern coast o Euroe ith the Atlantic Ocean to the est and the Mediterranean Sea to the south rance is knon or its rolling river valleys the maestic Als mountain range to the southeast and its glamorous sandy beaches on the south coast The rench boast a history o rich and oerul kings ho built lavish alaces like Versailles outside Paris but this reign o monarchs ended ith the bloody beheading o King Louis XVI ater the rench Revolution in 789 Hoever the elegant rench taste or reinement and beauty in their art music ashion and cuisine continues to inluence Western culture today Mediterranean Sea Art and Music The rench tradition o the chanson [shan-sohn] or song dates back to the Middle Ages These lyrical songs ere long oems erormed by traveling minstrels telling stories o legendary heroes or unrequited love The assion or the solo song or three-or our-art harmony continues today in contemorary rench olk music rench classical music began to blossom in 7th century hen comosers began riting light comedic oeras to entertain the ealthy nobility o rance acques Oenbach in the 9th century continued this rench tradition o vocal music in his oerettas in hich he rote shar olitical and social satires (see age 3 o Tradition o Excellence Book ) Atlantic Ocean Paris RANCE Language Lesson rench is the oicial language o rance Socializing in sidealk caés is very oular among young eole in rance Practice these common hrases Bonour! Hello! [bohn-zhoor!] Comment ça va Ho are you [KOH-moh sa va] e voudrais du caé et un croissant I ould like coee and a croissant [zhuh voo-dreh de kah-ay eh uhn kroah-san] Merci! Thank you! [mehr-see] Trivia The children s song 7 ais Dodo meaning go to slee is a oular lullaby sung by arents to their children Play this melody on age o Tradition o Excellence Book The Tour de rance a yearly bicycle race across rance as irst held in 903 American cyclist Lance Armstrong has on the race a record seven times The rench love cheese; there are over 000 dierent kinds o cheese available in rance Quick acts Caital: Paris Location: Western Euroe Area: 000 sq mi Climate: Temerate/ Mediterranean Poulation: 6 million Language: rench Currency: Euro Government: Reublic Aly Your Knoledge! Write your ansers on the back or on a searate sheet o aer ) When as the rench Revolution ) What is a chanson 3) Describe the kind o oeras ritten by rench comosers ) I you visited rance hat ould you like to see and do Play music rom rance on ages and 3 o Tradition o Excellence Book Worksheet ritten by Laurel Pla PhD author and editor 00 Kos Music Press This age authorized or dulication
30 Bb Clarinet Book age 6 b amaican music as heavily inluenced by the music o other Caribbean countries such as the Calyso music o Trinidad and Tobago Water Come a Me Eye Duet amaican olk Song # div # # # Interactive Practice Studio b AMAICA Name Date Peole and Culture C A R I B B E A N S E A This troical sandy isle in the Caribbean Sea has given birth to some o the most inluential music and dance styles in the orld Originally eoled AMAICA by Araak Indians amaica as discovered by Christoher Columbus in KINGSTON 9 ho claimed it or Sain In 6 the English seized the island rom Sain and began a 00-year rule During this time amaica became one o C A R I B B E A N S E A the orld s leading sugar exorters and as deendent on slave labor rom Arica to do this Today the maority o amaicans have Arican ancestry although there are small numbers o immigrants rom Euroe the United States and Asia amaica is no an indeendent nation that is art o the British Commonealth Art and Music The amaican olk song Banana Boat Song on age o Tradition o Excellence Book is an examle o mento a style o olk music seciic to amaica Unlike other islands o the Caribbean hich had Sanish inluences amaica as under English rule and develoed its on unique musical styles in combination ith Arican inluences Mento is an inormal rural style o music erormed ith acoustic instruments including the bano acoustic guitar hand drum and the rhumba box a kind o xylohone that you can sit on hile laying The lyrics o the songs comment on overty and the trials o everyday lie Banana Boat Song articularly is sung rom the oint o vie o dock orkers loading bananas onto boats during the night shit eature The syncoated melody o mento is the recursor to oular orms o music today such as ska and reggae hich are also native to amaica Ska is a tye o music rom the 90s that combined amaican mento ith US American blues and azz The music is distinctive because the accents are on the ubeats creating lively rhythmic music to dance to Reggae develoed out o ska in the 960s and has a very distinctive sound Reggae also eatures accents on the ubeat but the music is much sloer aced and most imortant the bass drum is droed on the irst beat creating a delayed o-beat eect The most rominent reggae musician rom amaica as Bob Marley (9 98) Ska and reggae ent on to inluence US American unk and ra music Trivia amaica means islands o srings and many icturesque streams and ateralls can be ound in amaica The author o the ames Bond novels Ian leming resided in amaica and used the location as a setting or some o his books including Live and Let Die Doctor No and The Man ith the Golden Gun amaican srinter Usain Bolt is a three-time Olymic gold medalist and orld-record holder or the 00 meters 00 meters and x00 meters relay Quick acts Caital: Kingston Location: Caribbean Sea Area: 000 sq mi Climate: Troical Poulation: 8 million Language: English Currency: amaican dollar Government: Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy Aly Your Knoledge! Write your ansers on the back or on a searate sheet o aer ) What does the name amaica mean ) What style o olk song is Banana Boat Song 3) Describe to unique characteristics o reggae music ) Name three acts you learned about amaica ater reading this age Worksheet ritten by Laurel Pla PhD author and editor 00 Kos Music Press This age authorized or dulication
9 Content Standard: Understanding music in relation to history and culture 3 Identiy by genre or style aural examles o music rom various historical eriods and cultures Conductor Score Book age 37 Achievement Standards Crash Cymbals Susended Cymbal Triangle W6 lute Oboe B Clarinet B Bass Clarinet Bassoon E Alto Saxohone B Tenor Saxohone E Baritone Saxohone B Trumet Horn Trombone Baritone Tuba Timani (Otional) Bells SD BD Piano Reduction Introduction Maestoso ( = ) div div # # b ã See the Conquering Hero Comes rom udas Maccabaeus George rideric Handel (68 79) æ æ Maestoso ( = ) Maestoso ( = ) div Maestoso ( = ) Bb æ æ C Cyms ã O O 3 æ O æ æ O Section A unis unis O English Comoser arr Ryan Nolin