1. Chamber pieces (varied)

• Assignment: keyboard note ID quiz

• Review: keyboard notes

• Resource: benchmark link will be supplied by your teacher

2. Keyboard note ID

• Assignment: mallet etude playing test

• Review: basic rudiments (buzz, diddles, etc.)

• Resource: Sight Reading Factory

3. Buzz Roll/double stroke roll

• Assignment: chamber piece practice

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

1. Compound meter (Devil Dance)

• Assignment: benchmarks playing test

• Review: development of scales

• Resource: CSD Noteflight

2. Concert B-flat, F, E-flat, Ab major scales

• Assignment: Devil Dance and Hamilton progress check

• Review: intonation and tone quality development

• Resource: Music Theory

3. Part independence as it relates to rhythm

• Review: rhythm reading

• Resource: Soundtrap

1. Concert B-flat, F, E-flat, Ab, C major scales

• Assignment: benmarks playing test

• Review: rhythm reading

2. Mixed meter (Prelude and Primal Danse)

• Assignment: Prelude and Primal Danse and Hamilton progress check

• Review: chromatic scales

3. Part independence as it relates to pitch and rhythm

1. Arranging

• Assignment: short, guided arrangement with transcription

• Review: dynamics and articulation

• Resource: CSD Noteflight

2. Chord voicing

• Assignment: medium, guided arrangement with flexibility

• Review: syllables

• Resource: ChordChord

3. Noteflight software proficiency

• Assignment: full, unguided arrangement of song choice

• Review: variety vs. repetition

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

(Musical topics --> Chords)

1. Voice parts

• Assignment: form

• Review: pitches and rhythms in repertoire

• Resource: Canvas resources for repertoire

2. Repertoire: Sky and the Dawn and the Sun, El Pambiche Lento

• Review: Spanish diction

• Resource: Sight Reading Factory

3. Dynamics

• Assignment: Focus on Sound voices post-test

• Review: rhythmic accuracy and reading

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

1. Key signatures

• Assignment: key signature review handouts

• Review: circle of fifths, relative major and minor

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

(Musical topics --> Keys)

2. Repertoire: Edenroth's Bumblebee, LaBarr's The Dream Ship, Mendelssohn's Verleih uns Frieden

• Assignment: sectionals and full group rehearsals, Sight Reading Factory rhythm reading

• Review: vertical intonation; rhythmic accuracy, diction

• Resource: Music Theory

3. Estill Voice Training: velum tongue

• Assignment: EVT Journal assignments

• Review: pitches and rhythms in repertoire

• Resource: Music Google Drive

1. Dynamics

• Assignment: solo auditions (optional)

• Review: score reading

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

(Musical topics --> Dynamics)

2. Repertoire: Walkin' After Midnight, Rapsodia Espanola

• Assignment: score reading: Focus on Sound

• Review: tone quality/vocal technique

• Resource: Music Google Drive

3. Score reading

• Assignment: dynamics cards display, quiz

• Review: Spanish diction

1. Dynamics

• Assignment: section part checks

• Review: four-part harmony

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

(Musical topics --> Dynamics)

2. Repertoire: Pink Panther, Wade in Duh Wahduh

• Assignment: individual part checks

• Review: pitches and rhythms in repertoire

• Resource: Music Google Drive

3. Scat syllables, improvisation

• Assignment: dynamics cards ordering, quiz

• Review: balance in repertoire

1. Just finished chamber music unit

• Assignment: Chamber Concert - February 27

• Review: bow use for phrasing/musicality

• Resource: Sight Reading Factory

2. Preparing for Festivals

• Assignment: final preparations for String Festival (cancelled)

• Review: rhythmic accuracy (Prelude)

• Resource: CSD Music First application cloud

3. Phrasing/musicality in Grieg's 'Sarabande'

• Assignment: Holberg Suite 'prelude' - practice technical sections and develop fingerings

• Review: watching/listening

• Resource: CSD Noteflight

1. Harmonic minor scales - D and A minor

• Assignment: Performance Test - originally due 3/23

• Review: posture/executive techniques

• Resource: Music Theory

2. 6/8 and 3/4 feel (2 groups of 2 vs. 3 groups of 2)

• Postponed indefinitely

• Review: bow technique (ie. where in the bow, how much, and point of contact)

• Resource: String Skills

3. Use of upper positions by choice, not just for necessity; spicato bowing technique (Overture to Nabucco)

• Review: tempo/pulse exercises

• Resource: Philadelphia Orchestra Facebook, YouTube (A Far Cry), YouTube (Holberg Suite), and Teoria

1. Power chords

• Assignment: power chord check

• Review: reading tab

• Resource: Guitar Nick

2. Tab

• Assignment: pick out song to learn with tab

• Review: basic chords

• Resource: YouTube

3. Strumming patterns

• Resource: Justin Guitar

1. Major Scale theory

• Assignment: construct major scale quiz

• Resource: CSD Noteflight

2. Song/AABA/32-bar form

• Assignment: compose 32-bar/AABA melody

• Resource: Music Theory

3. Basic composing

• Resource: Soundtrap