The 5th Grade Advanced Band students have been hard at work since returning to school in August!
In band lessons we have been focusing on increasing our range by reading and playing higher and lower sounds our on instruments. We have also been studying different types of articulations. Articulations in music are the ways that you can make a note sound different. We have been working on tonguing, slurring, staccato, and accents. In addition to playing fun songs, duets, and solos, we have also been working on exercises in our lesson book and preparing music for our December Concert (REMINDER: the date has changed to December 22, 2014). One part of lessons each week is critical listening, where we listen to different examples of music. In advanced band lessons we have also enjoyed listening to recordings of the pieces we will be playing in December as performed by professional wind ensembles (recordings from the JW Pepper website).
Here are links to these recordings:
Jingle Bell March
The Andromeda Connection
Huckleberry Hedgehog
Danza Africana
The Nutcracker (Overture and Trepak)