Target: Understanding musical expressiveness and identifying music symbols in the music.

Knowledge and skill acquisition: Tuners

St Learning Activities:  Sightread  new music, Finger Pattern Tuning Warm Up , Perform  Major scales 

Lesson Activity/Assignment:Balance, blend, listening across the ensemble

Advanced & Intermediate Orchestra
Music Focus this week is:
Week of January 27-31, 2020      Practice Focus

• Gauntlet (get articulations, slurs and rhythms throughout.) Are you following the dynamics listed throughout?  You should have it at performance level measures 1-58. WE will work on the B section this week.
  
• Jupiter  20-38 (slurs, dynamics, accents, rhythms) Are you phrasing? Pay attention to the 3/4 meter and the slurs within the section. Mark ALL fermatas and watch the conductor.
  
• Dragon Dances Dynamics, legato style- are you using the same part of the bow as others around you?
  

Weekly Reminders:
1/27 After School Practice for MPA until 4:00p.m. for Intermediate and Advanced Orchestra
Beginning Orchestra

• G Major Scale 2 octaves
• Slur Quiz You choose: #116 or #117 on EEI pg. 30
• Music focus on 19-27 Desert Sands, Solo and Ensemble Music
• Prelude & Fugue 1-20
  

Target: Define expressiveness in music and apply it to your music.
 Prep for  sight sing, work on solo and ensemble literature and begin MPA music,
music vocabulary study of dynamics their meaning and musical symbol.
Lesson Activity/Assignment:Balance, blend, listening across the ensemble 
Music for MPA:  Gauntlet- Measures 48-80 Tune section and understand slower section rhythms,
Dragon Dances, focus on intonation, pulse and phrasing29-49
Storm the Gates 42-63 Rhythm and Accented sections with Slurs
Rhythm and Sight Reading Exercises
Tempo and articulations in other music
Beginning Orchestra
EEI  pg. 28-29  Work on incorporating slurs and legato bowings
Begin 2 Octave Scale for G
Quiz on Desert Sands measures 1-19 record on All Music Section of EEI by Friday at 5pm
Tues- complete rhythm review and sight singing review in class- label and perform on instrument
Work new music and solo and ensemble music
Thursday Work in groups on MPA music and Concert Music
Friday- Song Review & begin music for Black Heritage Festival

Welcome back and Happy New Year! WE have many things happening over the next several weeks and there will need to be planning and practice happening for our success. Please make sure you have the following dates down for  after school rehearsals and performances. These are required for the MPA competition and if you made all county orchestra.

All County Orchestra Rehearsal Dates  
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 ​6pm-8pm at George Jenkins High School ( bring a stand, music and instrument)
Thursday, February 6, 2020 6pm-8pm Florida Southern College ( bring a stand, music and instrument) Friday, February 7, 2020 9am-4pm Florida Southern College All Day rehearsal ( wear orchestra shirt and jeans to all day rehearsal also bring music and instrument) Pick up at FSC by 4p.m. Concert is at 7pm that evening in your formal concert black attire. Call time is 6:15p.m.  Transportation to rehearsals and concerts is the responsibility of the parent or guardian. Rehearsals begin at the time listed, so please arrive 10-20 minutes before to check in and be tuned.                                                                                                                     Orchestra MPA Rehearsals and Competition Dates 2020 At the beginning of the school year information regarding the competition was distributed. Please make sure that you have blocked these dates on your calendar and are at the event as everyone is important to the success of the orchestra. Competition is at Tenoroc High School on Friday, February 21, 2020 and Saturday, February 22, 2020. WE do not get to choose our competition date or time and we will know at the end of January when we are assigned to perform. After School Rehearsals are:  Monday January 13, 2020 until 4:00p.m.                                                                                                          Monday January 27, 2020 until 4:00p.m.                                                                                                          Monday, February 3, 2020 until 4:00p.m.                                                                                                          Monday, February 10, 2020 until 4:15p.m. Dress rehearsal bring concert attire and change before rehearsal                                                                                                                                                                        Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Final Run Thru until 4:00p.m.                                                                               Competition is on February 21 and February 22 at Tenoroc HS.