Course Syllabus and Band Booster Information 8th Grade Band Playing Tests (2018-19) Test Assigned Test/Due Date September 3 September 10 October 8 October 15 November 5 November 12 December 10 December 17 February 4 February 11 March 4 March 11 April 8 April 15
May 13 May 20 Grades will be based on tone quality, notes, rhythm, articulation,
dynamics and tempo. Tradition of Excellence 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 #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 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) |
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