Alexander County Schools 2012-2013 Grade Band...Alexander County Schools 2012-2013 Unit: 7th grade band-intermediate- Creating Music Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Common Core and/or Essential Standards:

Alexander County Schools 2012-2013

Unit: 7th grade-Basic Theory- Intermediate Band

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Common Core and/or Essential Standards: 7.ML.2

Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music

Transfer: Students will be able to independently use their learning to… Read and interpret basic musical notation/symbols previously attained in beginning band, while moving toward more advanced symbols and notational codes.

Meaning

Understandings: Students will understand that…

Music has its own specific symbols to communicate a language to inform the player of timing, duration of performance and silences.

Essential Question(s):

1.) What makes an ensemble work? 2.) What keeps the ensemble together?

Acquisition

Students will know:

1. How to play a basic beat and tempo at various speeds. 2. How to perform standard pitch notation and rhythmic durations. 3. How to play accurately in basic meters while advancing to more

complex meters.

Students will be skilled at:

1. Playing on time and beat with rhythmic accuracy and pitch accuracy.

2. Playing at various tempos and in a vaierty of meters

Essential Vocabulary:

Rhythmic Notation Time Signatures Key Signatures whole notes/rests 4/4 Bb Scale half notes/rests 2/4 Eb Scale quarter notes/rests ¾ Ab Scale Eighth notes/rests 6/8 F Scale Sixteenth notes/rests

Pitch Notation Tempo markings Articulations Clefs Andante Tie Staff Moderato Slurs Flats Allegro Sharps Ritardando Naturals

IT Standards: IT Strategies:

Unit Title: 7th grade Band - Basic Theory- Intermediate Band Grade: 7th

Subject: Band

STAGE 2

Understandings:

Music has its own specific symbols to communicate a language to inform the player of timing, duration of performance and silences.

Essential Questions:

1. What makes an ensemble work?

2. What keeps the ensemble together?

Revised Blooms

Creating:

Can the student

create new product or point of view?

assemble, construct,

create, design, develop,

formulate & write.

Evaluating:

Can the student

justify a stand

or decision?

appraise, argue, defend,

judge, select, support,

value & evaluate

Analyzing:

Can the student distinguish between

the different parts?

appraise, compare, contrast, criticize,

differentiate, discriminate,

distinguish, examine, experiment,

question & test.

Applying:

Can the student

use the information in a new way?

choose, demonstrate,

dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,

operate, schedule,

sketch, solve, use & write.

Understanding:

Can the student explain ideas or

concepts?

classify, describe, discuss, explain,

identify, locate,

recognize, report,

select, translate

& paraphrase

Remembering:

Can the student recall or remember

the information?

define, duplicate, list,

memorize, recall, repeat,

reproduce & state

Formative Assessments

(Evidences)

Pass offs Playing tests Recordings “Down the line” Pictures of posture and

embouchure. Compare with proper picture.

Duets Popcorn play District Honor Band

Summative Assessment

Pep Rallies, October concert

Winter and Spring concerts

music assemblies quizzes/exams State Contest (MPA)

STAGE 3

Approximate number of days spent on unit:

W – Where are we going? Why? What is expected?

H – How will we Hook and Hold students?

E – How will we Equip students to Explore and Experience?

R – How will we help students Rethink, Rehearse, Revise, and Refine?

E – How will student self -Evaluate and reflect on learning?

T – How will we Tailor learning to vary needs, interests, and styles?

O – How will we Organize and sequence the learning?

Resources:

Essential Elements 2000 Internet/YouTube recording equipment videos/CD’s tuners metronomes projectors/smart board school owned instruments

Strategies:

School assemblies fall, winter, spring concerts MPA (state contest) District honor band Art fest


Unit: 7th grade band-intermediate- Creating Music

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Common Core and/or Essential Standards: 7.ML.3 Create music using a variety of sound and notational sources.

Transfer: Students will be able to independently use their learning to… Use standard notation to perform some small works, but starting to focus on full arrangements and independent parts within a work.

Meaning


Using the fundamentals techniques they have attained will produce and create basic musical excerpts and full arrangements


What are the basic fundamentals in creating music?

What makes music enjoyable?

What are the basic fundamentals in performing larger works?

Acquisition

Students will know:

Increase basic music making skills and fundamental notational literacy recognition.


1) composing/dictating simple melodies

2) playing full arrangements

3) tuning and using a tuner for intonation


Essential vocabulary: Rhythmic Notation whole, half, dotted half, eighth, sixteenth notes, complimentary rest, time (2/4, 3/4, 4/4) Pitch Notation flats, sharps, tempos, staff notes, clefs, articulations, improvisation, key signatures

Musical Interpretation style phrasing dynamics with control and accurate intonation balance and blend


Unit Title: Grade: Subject:

STAGE 2

Understandings:

Students will understand that…

Using the fundamentals techniques they have attained will produce and create basic musical excerpts and full arrangements


What are the basic fundamentals in

creating music?

What makes music enjoyable?

What are the basic fundamentals in

performing larger works?

Revised Blooms

Creating:

Can the student




formulate & write.

Evaluating:

Can the student

justify a stand

or decision?



value & evaluate

Analyzing:






question & test.

Applying:

Can the student




operate, schedule,


Understanding:


concepts?


identify, locate,

recognize, report,

select, translate

& paraphrase

Remembering:


the information?



reproduce & state


(Evidences)







music assemblies quizzes/exams State Contest (MPA)

STAGE 3









Resources:


Strategies:

School assemblies

Fall, winter, spring concerts

MPA (state contest)

District honor band

Art fest


Unit: 7th grade Intermediate band- Global Awareness

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Common Core and/or Essential Standards: 7.CR.1 Understanding global, interdisciplinary and 21st century

connection with music.

Transfer: Students will be able to independently use their learning to… Identify and relate music to various areas and eras

Meaning


Music is a direct reflection of geography and historical time period including your own community.


1) How can we explore connections with music with history/ geography? 2) What function does music serve in today's societies? 3) How does performing connect your community?

Acquisition

Students will know:

How to connect music with other areas and their periods of history.


Understanding and appreciating what the basic role of music has in

society, including their own society, and how it correlates.


sharp/ flats/ tuning/ historical content (history)/ phrasing, performing etiquette



STAGE 2

Understandings:

Students will understand that…

Music is a direct reflection of geography and historical time period including your own community.


1) How can we explore

connections with music

with history/ geography?

2) What function does music

serve in today's societies?

3) How does performing

connect your community

Revised Blooms

Creating:

Can the student




formulate & write.

Evaluating:

Can the student

justify a stand

or decision?



value & evaluate

Analyzing:






question & test.

Applying:

Can the student




operate, schedule,


Understanding:


concepts?


identify, locate,

recognize, report,

select, translate

& paraphrase

Remembering:


the information?



reproduce & state


(Evidences)







music assemblies quizzes/exams State Contest

(MPA)

STAGE 3









Resources:

Essential Elements 2000 Internet/YouTube recording equipment videos/CD’s tuners metronomes projectors / smart board school owned instruments

Strategies:

school assemblies, fall, winter, spring concerts, MPA, district honor band, Art fest


Unit: 7th grade Intermediate Band- Interpretation and Expression

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Common Core and/or Essential Standards: 7.MR.1- Understand the interacting elements to respond to music and

music performance.

Transfer: Students will be able to independently use their learning to… 1.) Critique performances 2.) Read and interpret their conductors 3.) Evaluate texture, blend, and balance

Meaning


1. Music has layers. 2. Conductors analyze the music and communicate their

interpretations through gestures. The students must be responsive to their conductors and these gestures.


1.) Are we conveying our composers meaning? 2.) What role does each instrument play in a composition? 3.) How do we respond to music? 4) What emotion/story is the performance conveying to the audience?

Acquisition

Students will know:

1. How to analyze with more mature conceptual skills during a live

performance and competitive situations.

2. How their parts and performances effect the overall sound of the

music and ensemble.


1. Listening to and analyzing a performance of a basic given work. 2. Following visual quest from their directors. 3. Tuning and adjusting

Essential Vocabulary: Ensemble Sounds: Balance Blend Texture

Musical Parts: Melodies Harmonies Phrasing

Characteristics of Genres: Style Smooth Detached



STAGE 2

Understandings:

Music has layers

Conductors analyze the music

and communicate their

interpretations through

gestures. The students must

be responsive to their

conductors and these

gestures.


1.) Are we conveying our

composers meaning?

2.) What role does each

instrument play in a composition?

3.) How do we respond to music?

4) What emotion/story is the

performance conveying to the

audience?

Revised Blooms

Creating:

Can the student




formulate & write.

Evaluating:

Can the student

justify a stand

or decision?



value & evaluate

Analyzing:






question & test.

Applying:

Can the student




operate, schedule,


Understanding:


concepts?


identify, locate,

recognize, report,

select, translate

& paraphrase

Remembering:


the information?



reproduce & state


(Evidences)








(MPA)

STAGE 3









Resources:


Strategies:

school assemblies, fall, winter, spring concerts, MPA (state contest), artfest


Unit: 7th grade Band - Tone quality and Pitch Accuracy

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Common Core and/or Essential Standards:

7. M.L.1 Apply the elements of music and musical techniques in order to play music with accuracy and expression.

Transfer: Students will be able to independently use their learning to… 1. Play their instrument with accurate

pitch and proper tone/physical technique.

2. Demonstrate basic expressive elements.

Meaning


1. Musicians use specific physical techniques to play with a more

mature accuracy.

2. Music is given expressive markings to communicate its’ own

language and desired outcomes.

3. Beginning to have opportunities to perform on a competitive

level


What makes a quality tone? What do musicians do to communicate to their audience? What produces a mature concert?

What makes a quality performance?

Acquisition

Students will know:

Embouchure, Breathing techniques/breath support, Posture/Physical elements, and expressive markings.


Playing with a more mature supported tone with control at various dynamic levels and control

Essential Vocabulary: Physical Techniques: Posture Playing position Hand Position Mouthpiece placement Reed placement Embouchure

Breathing Techniques Inhalation Exhalation Air support- Speed and pressure Tuning- ear training

Expressive Markings

Slurs Accents Attacks Releases articulations

Dynamics

piano, mezzo forte, forte Crescendos, Decresendo


Unit Title: Tone quality and Pitch Accuracy Grade: 7th

Subject: Band

STAGE 2

Understandings:

Musicians use specific physical

techniques to play with a more

mature accuracy.

Music is given expressive

markings to communicate its’

own language and desired

outcomes.

Beginning to have opportunities

to perform on a competitive level


What makes a quality performance?

What makes a quality tone? What do musicians do to

communicate to their audience?

What produces a mature concert?

Revised Blooms

Creating:

Can the student




formulate & write.

Evaluating:

Can the student

justify a stand

or decision?



value & evaluate

Analyzing:






question & test.

Applying:

Can the student




operate, schedule,


Understanding:


concepts?


identify, locate,

recognize, report,

select, translate

& paraphrase

Remembering:


the information?



reproduce & state


(Evidences)








STAGE 3









Resources:


Strategies:

School assemblies, fall, winter, spring concerts, MPA (state contest), district honor band, Art fest

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