INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AMU4M COURSE OUTLINE 1. Playing Evaluations - 40% Playing in class quizzes at the end of each unit Note values: all values & rests in all combinations, triplets included Time signatures: all simple & compound time signature. Students master conducting skills by beating the time patterns while performing rhythm. Historical backgrounds on composers, Orff or Beethoven Advanced sight-reading skills developed using 20 Rhythmical Studies All musical terms are studied Playing techniques required to achieve grade 6 playing level by end of term Scales: ALL scales as sequences: speed scale, arpeggio, thirds and relative minor harmonic, plus all remaining scales performed in quarters and eighths with arpeggio. Students perform rhythms on a regular basis in class for their peers from Rhythm series 14 through and including 16. Listening skills developed. This includes music appreciation and daily ear-training (one evaluation per week) Assessments Formative assessment of student performance & rhythm skills is ongoing. The teacher makes suggestions to improve technique. Students receive regular reports on progress for each skill. Assessments sometimes involve the students in the class as a group, as they critique each other’s work. Students are required to practice regularly at home from their class method book. Ear-training assessments are done weekly. 2. Written Work - 20% Students receive their Royal Conservative Grade 2 rudiments by end of term. This is the University prerequisite grade to enter a BMus program. Quizzes at the end of each of the 8 Units: The Staff – Alto and Tenor clefs Chromatic Scales Intervals Chords Basic rules of voicing Cadences Transpositions Project 1: Students develop the ability to follow a conductor’s score by reading through the orchestral score for Beethoven’s 5th. Project 2: Students compose a serial work using the same mathematical approach developed during the Dadaist period. They student similar work by Schoenberg and other serial composers.

(The previous two projects occur in alternating years since this class is combined with AMU4M) Assessment On going cue card key signature identification assessments including tonic and dominant notes in both major and minor keys Students have 2 homework assignments per week. Completion of homework is tracked as part of student assessment. Progress is monitored and students with difficulties are given extra help. Peer and teacher mentoring resources are used. 3. Listening skills - 10% Experiencing performance. Students learn to listen attentively. Ear-training helps to achieve this goal. Clapping at the end of all performances help the students to encourage each other when they play for their peers. Classroom is a band. Musicians continue to learn the skills required to follow their conductor. More complex and compound beat patterns are presented so students can follow the conductor stick appropriately. Students continue learn to listen to their fellow musicians at a higher level within their own sections and to the group as a whole in order to be able to place themselves within the context of the entire band. Being the audience. Good audience skills are encouraged. Students continue to demonstrate the ability to listen attentively and with discernment to live music. Students also listen to musical excerpts and are asked to critique the selections. Listening skill codes are used to evaluate & assess students. These evaluations are ongoing. 4. Summatives & Exams a) In class playing exam Final - 20% b) In class written summative - 10% TOTAL....................100%