Curriculum Map January 5th Grade Band-Winds

Standard (s) PDE: 9.1.5- Production, Performance and Exhibition of Music. B. Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. NAfME: 2- Performing on instruments alone and with others. a. Students perform on at least one instrument accurately and independently, alone and in a small and lagre ensemble, with good posture, good playing position, and good breath. 5- Reading and notating music. c. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes and rests in multiple time signatures and alle breve meter signatures. Essential Question Why are scales important to music? Content Understand the concept of scale and octave Skill Use material from lesson book to read and discuss the construction of a scale. Write out a scale. Assessment Student work of written scale.

How do I play a major scale?

Play a concert Bb scale

Identify key signature to determine the name of scale. Discuss the difference between chords and arpeggios. Write out an arpeggio and number the notes related to the scale. Students perform different notes of an arpeggio together to create a chord.

Student performance of a concert Bb major scale.

What is the difference between a chord and arpeggio?

Understand the concept of chord and play various types with lesson groups

Student defines the term chord and arpeggio.

Understand and play an arpeggio

Student successfully plays a chord with lesson members. Student individually plays an arpeggio.

Curriculum Map January 5th Grade Band-Winds

PDE: 9.2.5-Historical and Cultural Contexts. D. Analyze a work of art from its historical and cultural perspective. 9.3.5- Critical Response. B. Describe works in the arts comparing similar and contrasting characteristics NAfME: 9- Understanding music in relations to history and culture c. Students compare, in several cultures of the world, functions music serves, roles of musicians, and conditions under which music is typically performed. 6- Listening to, analyzing and describing music a. Describe specific musical events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology. What are the stylistic characteristics of a march performed by a concert band? Understand march style, and understand the concept of a band arrangement. Discuss march style as it contrasts with other styles including current musical genres. Introduce the concept of band arrangements as an adaptation of a musical work. Analyze stylistic characteristics in a march Perform a march using proper style. How do composers use different instrumentations to create different musical colors? Understand the musical term soli and perform soli within a full band arrangement. Introduce the concept of soli. Identify the use a soli in a march using a conductors score. Students define soli and its use in a march. Students listen to a march to successfully identify different soli sections. Students perform a march using proper style. Listening quiz to properly identify the performance of a march.

What role do scales, arpeggios, and chords play in music?

Recognize and understand the use of scales, chords, and arpeggios in a march.

Using knowledge of scales and arpeggios to identify their important role in a march. Identify the use of chords to through playing a march at half tempo.

Student/teacher discussion of scalar/arpeggio usage.

Student/teacher discussion of the use of chords played by an entire ensemble.