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Curriculum Project II

The document outlines a music department curriculum for band beginning in 6th grade. It details the goals and outcomes for each grade level from 6th through 8th grade. The goals are to introduce students to various instruments and music fundamentals like rhythm, scales, sight reading, and performance skills. Each grade builds upon the previous with more advanced concepts. By the end of 8th grade, students will be prepared to audition and participate in marching band and solo/ensemble events.

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Curriculum Project II

The document outlines a music department curriculum for band beginning in 6th grade. It details the goals and outcomes for each grade level from 6th through 8th grade. The goals are to introduce students to various instruments and music fundamentals like rhythm, scales, sight reading, and performance skills. Each grade builds upon the previous with more advanced concepts. By the end of 8th grade, students will be prepared to audition and participate in marching band and solo/ensemble events.

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Presley Fiore

MUED 354
Fall 2021
Curriculum Project Part II
Music Department Description
In my program, students will begin band in 6th grade. This is for accessibility reasons. Not
everyone will be able to afford an instrument in elementary school and not everyone will be able
to stay after school for a pull-out program. I want to have realistic expectations for my students,
so I want them to be able to participate in band as part of their daily schedule, not as an
extracurricular. I also want the parents to know exactly what to expect out of my band program.
This includes time commitment, instrument costs, concerts, events, field trips, and more. I am
intending on having a parent orientation meeting at the beginning of the school year where I give
the parents a full calendar of the year’s activities. This would be more difficult to organize in
elementary school. Maybe further into my career if I’m at a school for a long time I would start a
pull-out program, but at the beginning of my career I want to stick to starting instruction in 6th
grade.

Outcomes
6th Grade
August Introduction to band; explain all instruments and their families
Instrument fitting
Intro into rhythm (whole notes/rests)
September How to take care of your instrument
Proper posture, embouchure, hand position, and playing
Intro into reading pitches in treble and bass clef
How to produce a sound on your instrument (concert F)
Rhythm continued (half notes/rests, quarter notes/rests)
Percussion: snare drum, bass drum, and marimba
October
Time signatures (4/4 and 3/4)
Intonation
Articulation: normal tonguing
Intro to conducting
Work out of method book
Entrances and releases
November- Percussion: rolls
December Key signatures
Slurs and ties (especially for brass)
Bb major scale
Rhythm: eighth notes
Preparation for first concert
January- Percussion: intro to auxiliary instruments (triangle, tambourine, sleigh bells)
February F major scale
Ledger lines
2/4
March- Transfer some clarinets to oboe and bassoon
April G major scale and C major scale
Balance and blend
Articulation: accents, tenutos, staccattos
Phrasing
May-June Clarinets over the break
Eb major scale
Articulation: Marcato
Dynamics (piano and forte)
Percussion: rudiments, flams, diddles
Final concert preparation: repertoire
Give students the opportunity to audition into 8th grade band
7th grade
August- Cut time and 6/8
September Ab major scale and Db major scale
Form (march form)
Sixteenth notes and triplets
Sightreading
October- Chromatic scale (one octave)
November Dynamics: mp, mf, ff, crescendo, decrescendo
Fall concert in October
Explain all county and all state auditions
Begin talking about solo and ensemble
Percussion: timpani
December
Prep for holiday concert: teach skills found in repertoire
January-
2 octave first 7 scales
February
2 octave chromatic scales
Reinforce intonation principles
March- Expressive markings: ritardando, accelerando,
April Show them MPA sheet
Student conductors
Sonority
May-June Dynamics: fp, sfz
Line shaping
More advanced phrasing
Style (what does it mean? How do we perform it?)
End of year concert: intro into composition
8th grade
August- Gb/F# major scale
September Extended range of first 7 major scale where applicable
Vibrato
October- Percussion: 2 mallet technique
November Chromatic scale full range
B major scale
Composition: create a short melody
December E major scale
Ensembles for S&E: students will work in their ensembles and run rehearsals
January- themselves, I will check in on them periodically
February A major scale
March- Concert MPA preparation: student conductor
April More advanced sightreading
D major scale
May-June Concert MPA
Rate other bands at MPA (listening skills)
Intro to marching band
Play all 12 major scales in under 2:30 and chromatic scale in full range of
instrument

Sources
“The Band Music Curriculum.” Arlington Public Schools Arts Education, 2011,

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/deb02cedbb-110830_-

_APS_Band_Curriculum__Supplements_FINAL.pdf.

Florida Bandmasters Association Adjudicator’s Comment Sheet. FBA,

https://fba.flmusiced.org/media/1483/judgesheet-concertmus-with-rubric-rev2013-

bullets.pdf.

Instrumental Music Curriculum Grades 5-12. 2001, https://www.muscatine.k12.ia.us/wp-

content/uploads/K-12-Instrumental-Music-Curriculum.pdf.

Poor, Andrew, and Steven Tyndall. “In the Beginning...Building Blocks for Success with Band

Students During Their First Two Years.” Midwest Clinic, 18 Dec. 2009,

https://www.midwestclinic.org/2009-126_Andrew_Poor_Steven_Tyndall.html.

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