8th Grade Band
2023-24 Course Syllabus and Band Booster Information - last page contract due August 24
7th Grade Band Playing Tests, 2023-24
Test Assigned Test/Due Date
September 11 September 18
October 16 October 23
November 13 November 20(recorded)
January 3 January 9
February 5 February 12
March 11 March 18 (recorded)
April 15 April 22
May 13 May 20
Grades will be based on tone quality, notes, rhythm, articulation, dynamics and tempo.
Practice Journal Due Dates, 2023-24
Please see the back of the Practice Journal for specific instructions. Due dates are all Fridays.
September 15
October 20
November 17
January 5
February 9
March 15
April 19
May 17
Practice Journals are due the Friday before a playing test. Due dates also are listed on the far right column of the Practice Journal.
Spelling Major Scales with the Circle of 4ths
Tradition of Excellence Method Book Listening Examples
SOE #2 Rig A Gig Gig, American Folk Song (history)
SOE #6 Pat-a-pan, French Carol
SOE #13 My Partner and I, Swedish Folk Dance
SOE #17 Tumbalalaika, Jewish Folk (Love) Song (lyrics)
SOE #22 The British Grenadiers, English Folk Song
SOE #26 Green Grow the Rashes O, Scottish Folk Song
SOE #28 Bonnie Glen Shee, Scottish Folk Song
SOE #31 La Raspa, Mexican Folk Song
SOE #33 Londonderry Air, Irish Folk Song (Muppet version)
SOE #37 Arirang, Korean Folk Song
SOE #42 Tinga Layo, West Indies Folk Song
SOE #43 Hwi Ne Ya He, American Indian Song (Native American Flute example)
SOE #45 Envoyons D'L'Avant, Nos Gens!, French Canadian Folk Song
THE MIDDLE AGES (400-1400)
SOE #46 Confirma Hoc, Plainsong (example)
SOE #47 Descendit de Coelis, Notre Dame Organum
SOE #48 Estampie
SOE #49 Sumer Is Icumen In, English Round
THE RENAISSANCE (1400-1600)
SOE #51 Voc Dilecti Mei, Palestrina
SOE #53 The Official Branle, Thoinot Arbeau
SOE #54 Old One Hundredth, Louis Bourgeois
SOE #55 Now is the Month of Maying
SOE #57 Bergerette Sans Roche, Tielman Susato
SOE p.15 Earle of Oxford's Marche, William Byrd
THE BAROQUE PERIOD (1600-1750)
SOE #62 Trumpet Tune, Henry Purcell
SOE #63 Le Petit Rien, Francois, Couperin
SOE #66 Allemande, Arcangelo Corelli
SOE #67 Spring from the Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi
SOE #68 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Johann Sebastian Bach
SOE #69 Chorale, Hans Leo Hassler
SOE #70 Hornpipe from Water Music Suite, George Frideric Handel
SOE #72 Fantasia Chromatica, Johann Sebastian Bach
SOE #75 Minuetto, Domenico Scarlatti
SOE #76 Passepied, George Philipp Telemann
SOE #77 Siciliana from Music for the Royal Fireworks, George Frideric Handel
SOE p.20 Rejouissance from Music for the Royal Fireworks, George Frideric Handel
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750-1820)
SOE #79 Theme from Piano Sonata No. 2, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
SOE #80 German Dance, Franz Joseph Haydn
SOE #82 Larghetto from Sonatina, Ludwig van Beethoven
SOE #83 Austrian Hymn, Franz Joseph Haydn
SOE #84 Russian Folk Song, Ludwig van Beethoven
SOE #87 Scotch Dance, Ludwig van Beethoven
SOE #89 Theme from Symphony No. 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
SOE p.24 Rondo, Franz Joseph Haydn
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900)
SOE #91 Cast Thy Burden from Elijah, Felix Mendelssohn
SOE #94 Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johannes Brahms
SOE #95 Scheherazade, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
SOE #96 Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss, Jr.
SOE #97 Fire Festival Polka, Josef Strauss
SOE #101 Pilgrim's Chorus from Tannhauser, Richard Wagner
SOE #102 Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition, Modeste Mussorgsky
SOE #105 The Wild Horseman, Robert Schumann
SOE p.29 Walz, Opus 39, No. 15, Johannes Brahms
SOE #108 Theme from Symphony No. 5, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
20TH CENTURY ART MUSIC
SOE #110 Pavane, Gabriel Faure
SOE #112 Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Claude Debussy
SOE #113 The Sunken Cathedral, Claude Debussy
SOE #114 Bela Bartok, nationalism example -
SOE #115 Igor Stravinsky, primativism example -
SOE #117 Golliwog's Cake Walk from Children's Corner, Claude Debussy
SOE #118 Anton Webern, tone row example -
SOE p.33 War from the Four Horsemen, Andrew Boysen
SOE #122 Charles Ives, bitonal example -
20TH CENTURY POP MUSIC
SOE #124 Semper Fidelis, John Philip Sousa
SOE #125 The Easy Winners, Scott Joplin
SOE #129-131 Bb Blues play along track
SOE #133 1950s Rock and Roll example -
What's Opera, Doc? (SOE #101)