Spring-Ford Area Senior High School

Music Department

 


The Spring-Ford Area High School Select Wind Ensemble

Clinic/Performance

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Spring-Ford Area High School Ninth Grade Center Auditorium

7:00 PM

Band: Academic & Why!

(Part I)

 

French National Defile March……………………………………….…Jean Robert Planquette

(Le Rιgiment de Sambre et Meuse)                         Transcribed by Joseph Franηois Rauski

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  • Welcome Parents, Administrators, Faculty, School Board Members & Friends

 

  • Description of our clinic/performance as a part of “Music in the Schools Month”

 

  • History & traditions of “Bands” (Symphonic Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Jazz Band)

 

  • Presentation of research supporting music in the public school as an academic subject (Dr. Frank Wilson; Dr. Tedd Judd;  Dr. Francis Raucher & Dr. Gordon L. Shaw)

 

  • Dr. Howard Gardner – “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”
    1. Linguistic intelligence
    2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
    3. Spatial Intelligence
    4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
    5. Musical Intelligence
    6. Interpersonal Intelligence
    7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
    8. Naturalist Intelligence
    9. Existential Intelligence

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·        Tools of Music Performance – Musical Signs and Symbols that create meaning

1.      Musical Notation equal to:

                  A) Alphabet – necessary for language & reading

                              (Major, minor scales, chromatics)

                  B) Math symbols necessary for problem solving

                              (Note values, rhythm patterns, counting subdivision)

                  C) Science symbols necessary to indicate research, theories, etc.

                              (Acoustical conditions, vibrations, etc.)

                  D) Common & connecting link with all is measurement

                              (Poetry – the rhythm of the room, language)

2.      Technical skills – visual, auditory, physical coordination

                  A) Calisthenics of warm-up

                              (Scales, articulation, & rhythm patterns)

3.      Palette of Colors – dynamics, articulation, instrumentation

                  A) Instrument choirs, chord voicing, & dynamics

 

·        Performance of Wind Ensemble Literature

 

Overture “1812”…………………………………………………………...Peter I. Tchaikovsky

(Ouverture Solennelle)                                                       Transcribed by Mayhew L. Lake

 

Three London Miniatures………………………………………………..Mark Camphouse

I. Westminster Hymn

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  • Coda – Question & Answer Session

 

Is the band program another activity, or is it an academic discipline that

 contributes to the student’s total educational process?

 

51st Annual Spring Concert

Spring-Ford Area High School Auditorium

Friday, May 12, 2006 (7:30 PM)

featuring

the

Spring-Ford Area High School Wind Ensemble

Symphonic Concert Band

Freshman Concert Band

Intermediate Jazz Ensemble

Concert Advanced Jazz Ensemble

 

ABA March………………………………………………………….Edwin Franco Goldman

                                                                                                Edited by Edward S. Lisk

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