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Welcome to Band!
Welcome to Band!
Welcome to the Kellar Middle School Band and Orchestra program. We hope that you find participation in music to be a worthwhile and rewarding experience. Musical training enables students to express their own creativity and to experience pride, satisfaction, and a sense of accomplishment. Participation also promotes such non-musical benefits as mental discipline, cooperative learning, developing a sense of responsibility, and emotional growth.
Welcome to the Kellar Middle School Band and Orchestra program. We hope that you find participation in music to be a worthwhile and rewarding experience. Musical training enables students to express their own creativity and to experience pride, satisfaction, and a sense of accomplishment. Participation also promotes such non-musical benefits as mental discipline, cooperative learning, developing a sense of responsibility, and emotional growth.
Countless studies have proven that students involved with music perform better in their academic subjects in school. Playing a musical instrument can be a life long journey.
Countless studies have proven that students involved with music perform better in their academic subjects in school. Playing a musical instrument can be a life long journey.
Participation in band benefits the student in many ways including:
Participation in band benefits the student in many ways including:
- Enhances problem solving skills
- Promotes teamwork
- Fosters goal setting skills
- Encourages self-expression
- Coordination
- Memory skills
- Self-confidence and esteem
- Concentration
MUSIC IS SCIENCE
MUSIC IS SCIENCE
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. The printed sheet music is a chart, a graph that indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with exact control of time.
MUSIC IS MATHEMATICAL
MUSIC IS MATHEMATICAL
It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
MUSIC IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
MUSIC IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
MUSIC IS HISTORY
MUSIC IS HISTORY
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feelings.
MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION
MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
MUSIC is all of these things, but most of all, music is ART. It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring, but difficult techniques and uses them to create emotion. This is the one thing science cannot duplicate -- feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
MUSIC is all of these things, but most of all, music is ART. It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring, but difficult techniques and uses them to create emotion. This is the one thing science cannot duplicate -- feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
Important Announcements:
Important Announcements:
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
A student’s success on any musical instrument is not only dependent upon positive participation in in-school instruction, but on daily individual practice. Students should practice 20-30 minutes 4-5 days per week to reinforce the good habits introduced during group instruction. Students will maintain a weekly practice record that will be monitored by his/her instructor.
PARENT RESPONSIBILITY
PARENT RESPONSIBILITY
Parents play a crucial role in helping their child succeed in the Band. Consistent practice is the absolute best way to improve. The following guidelines will help contribute to your child’s success:
Help your child establish good practice habits.
Schedule a daily practice time.
Provide a quiet area for daily practice.
Show interest in your child’s musical progress, being careful not to make fun of the strange sounds.
Contact Mr. Johnson if you have questions or concerns.
Encourage your child to keep trying (especially through these hard times).
See that your child is present and on time for ALL rehearsals.
Attend their performances. (Performers need an audience! We are really missing this one these days)
Expose your child to a variety of musical experiences including concerts, recitals, and recordings.
OUR DISTRICT’S MUSIC VENDOR
OUR DISTRICT’S MUSIC VENDOR
Posen-Robbins School District has selected Quinlan and Fabish Music Company as the preferred instrument vendor.
All instruments meet the Posen-Robbins School District recommended brand listing
Loaner instruments (during repairs) are provided for each building
A maintenance/replacement program is included in the rental fee
A large fully staffed repair facility provides quality repairs/service
Instrument supplies
Over 35 years of service to music education in the Chicagoland area
Parents are free to choose any instrument supplier they prefer. With Quinlan and Fabish, we can assure you that your rental experience will be professional, efficient, and of the highest quality.
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