Pacing Guide 1st Year Orchestra. String Basics Steps to Success For String Orchestra, Book 1

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1 Pacing Guide 1st Year Orchestra String Basics Steps to Success For String Orchestra, Book 1 Submitted by Tony Aultmon Instrumental music 4 th 6 th anthony.aultmon@pgcps.org

2 TIME FRAME WEEK 1 2 WEEK 2 4 REVIEW / THEORY (pick 1 or 2 exercises from the listed pages) ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 1. Proper instrument/bow care and safe handling 2. Playing position and rest position 3. Identify music staff, ledger lines, measure, and bar lines 4. Instrument parts 5. Daily warm up routine appropriate to the skill level (e.g. pizzicato quarter notes on open strings) 1. Policies and schedule of lessons, playing positions, inst. care, practice journals 2. Instrument parts worksheet 3. Demonstration ofpositions 1. Proper left hand and instrument position for PIZZICATO 2. D string notes (D E,) (Rote & book) 3. Simple ¼, and ½ and whole note/rest rhythms on open strings 4. Shoulder pad and endpins 5. Identify the parts of the bow 6. Introduce beginner bowhold (thumb below the frog) 7. Bow exercises (windshield wipers, wrist up/down with the bow parallel to the ground, over the shoulder, through an empty paper towel tube, etc) part Ensemble Training 1. pg THEORY EXER. #17 3.THEORY EXER. #28 Composition 2. Performance Evaluation (pg.7 #22) 3. Practice journals METHOD/TEXT 1. Week #1 2 Pg Week #3 4 Pg. 6 7

3 * Vocabulary will be covered over the next six weeks. We are saving many terms for future weeks See pg. 2, of book, for instrument chart in front of cover for terms pizzicato ¼, ½ notes and rests TIME FRAME WEEK 5 WEEK 6 1. Recognizing and 4/4 meters 2. Quarter notes/rests andhalf notes/rests 3. Identifying notes on thelines and spaces 4. Keeping fingers curved 5. Continue working on the bow hold and bow exercises 6. Continue working on left hand shape 1. Echo rhythm patterns in 4/4 (good warm up) 2. Continue working on lefthand shape 3. Continue working on thebow hold and bow exercises 4. Begin playing open strings with the bow (Bowing exercises are done in class but do not occur until pg. 14). REVIEW/ THEORY (pick 1 or 2 exercises from the listed pages) 1. pg Theory # pg pg. 8, #27 ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 2. Placing first finger on tape 3. Perform #26 4. Practice Journal 5. Left hand position 2. Practice journal 3. Correct bow hold 4. pg. 9 # 33 or #34 METHOD/TEXT 1. pg pg. 9 staff, clef, quarter note/rest, time signature, bar lines, final bar line, measure, half, whole note rests, repeat sign repeat sign, trio, duet, double bar line. Composition, compose, whole note

4 LISTENING/ VIEWING Show an orchestra video. Point out bowings, posture etc. 1. Copland Appalachian Spring 2. Strauss Southern Roses 1. Briccialdi Carnival of Venice TIME FRAME END OCTOBER/NOVEMBER DECEMBER * There are different schools of thought for the bow hold. The beginner bow hold should be used no more than 2 3 weeks before the introduction of the regular hold. 1. Fingering and reading E, F#, G 2. Demonstrate bow hold steps (see pg ) with the beginner bow hold (thumb below frog) 3. Practice bowing one string at a time 4. Play pg. 9 with the bow 5. Continue working on left handshape 6. Continue working on therelationship between quarter notes/rest and half notes/rests 1. Preparing and identifying performance literature 2. Continue demonstrating bow hold steps (see pg ) with the beginner bow hold (thumb below frog) 3. Play pg. 9 with the bow 4. Learn notes on the A string (pick 1 or 2 exercises from the listed pages) 1. pg. 9 (with bow) 1. Concert pieces 2. Theory: Number 57 ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 2. Perform number 33 and Theory: #47 1. Winter Concertperformance 2. Practice journals 3. Performance rubric4. Perform any 2 exercises on pg. 9 with a good bow hold, clear tone, and straight bow stroke. METHOD/TEXT 1. pg pg solo, tutti time signature, common time, key signature, scale

5 LISTENING 1. Brahms Symphony #1, Mvt Winter Concert TIME FRAME JANUARY FEBRUARY * Note to teacher: The ¼ notes require a fast bow speed, ½ notes require a slower speed and whole notes require the slowest speed. Mark the student s bow with a dot into three sections, (whiteout works nicely) lower, middle and upper. Mark a dot approx. 2 3 above the finger grip and 2 3 from the tip of the bow. Students should play from dot to dot using the whole middle section of the bow with each stroke when starting their bow experience 1. Continue demonstrating bowhold steps (see pg ) with the beginner bow hold (thumb below frog) 2. Practice bowing differentrhythms on shoulder for a straight bow 3. Continue to work on left hand 1. Practice finding bow levels and practice bow retakes 2. Continue to review the names of the open strings 3. Continue to work on the relationship between half notes/rests, quarter notes/rests, and eighth notes/rests 4. Read open G 5. Various bow speeds for ¼, ½, and whole notes (pick 1 or 2 exercises from the listed pages) 1. pg (A string notes) 2. Winter Concert pieces 1. pg. 14 and pg. 13; for note reading ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 2. Number Perform Perform number Demonstrate correct bowhold and bow on 1 string at a time METHOD/TEXT 1. pg pg arco, up bow, down bow, rosin, and parts of the bow bow lift

6 LISTENING 1. Brahms Academic Festival Overture 1. Smetana The Moldau TIME FRAME MARCH APRIL (pick 1 or 2 exercises from the listed pages) 1. Continue to work on a goodbow hold, a nice tone with full bow strokes, and clean string crossings 2. Continue to work on readingthe notes on the D and A string 1. pg pg. 12; for note reading 1. Understand intervals androunds 2. Perform a round 3. Work on reading notes onthe A string 4. Bass: Shift to C# and D 5. D Scale ( look at pg. 30 for ⅛notes and different rhythms) 1. pg Theory: Number 99 ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 2. Perform number Demonstrate a good bow hold with a curved pinky and good thumb 2. Perform number Demonstrate smooth stringcrossings METHOD/TEXT 1. pg pg. 20 and 21 LISTENING 1. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 interval and round 1. Offenbach Can Can from Orpheus and the Underworld TIME FRAME MAY/JUNE

7 ASSESSMENT OPTIONS 1. Play concert pieces with a good left hand position, correctplaying position, nice bow hold, and long full bows that produce a nice tone 2. Continue to work on the relationship between halfnotes/rests, quarter notes/rests, and eighth notes/rests 3. Continue to work on naming the notes 4. Cumulative review of text 5. Work on using 4th finger (violin and viola) 6. Bass: Shift to C# to D 1. Spring concert pieces 2. pg number Practice journals 3. Performance rubric METHOD/TEXT 1.pg Intervals LISTENING 1. Spring Concert Music