Rachel Davenport Curriculum Design Long Range Programming 7th Grade Year October Halloween Costume Ideas Theme

e Sinfonia from Trio in A Minor o Georg Philipp Telemann arr. Robert Bennett Brown o Duration 2:39 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: Introduction of Baroque style, crescendos, sustained bow, ostinato Dance of the Tumblers o Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Sandra Dackow o Duration 3:50 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: C major, lifting bow and starting from string, fast bow speed for style, high energy Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld o Jacques Offenbach, arr. Richard Meyer o Duration 1:42 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: Parts for flute, Horn, Trombone, Introduction of Opera buffa to students, Dynamic contrasts, matching attacks across full orchestra December Holiday special Simple Gifts o Arr. Marsha Chusmir Shapiro o Duration 2:50 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: key changes C, F, Bb, G, contrast in tempo dynamics and texture, chorale style March from The Nutcracker o Tchaikovsky arr. Bob Cerulli o Duration 1:47 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: Introduce ballet genre to students, classic Christmas tune, need to change theme from eighth notes to triplet, and then can teach triple vs. duple. Who let the Elves Out o Traditional, arr. Victor Lopez o Duration 2:55 o Grade 2

o Special considerations: Fun piece! Drum set part, to jam out to some Christmas fun, gives an interesting bass and cello line to give them responsibility. March Spring into Strings! Stringtown Stroll o Doris Gazda o Duration 1:50 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Introduction to New Orleans and Jazz music, syncopation and swing beats, introducing ponticello, good bass line for bass and cello Danny Boy o Arr. Harry Alshin o Duration 3:20 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: some 3rd position violins, extentions in low strings, shaping phrases and keeping long lines, rubato, control of bow! Spring from Four Seasons o Vivaldi arr. Meyer o Duration 2:39 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: martele and brush bowing style, hooked bowings May Concert Petite Tango o Kriechebaum o Duration 1:50 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: dotted quarter eighth rhythm, alternating pizz and arco, Spanish piece, optional percussion, C major Westminster Prelude and Fugue o David Shaffer o Duration 3:40 o Grade 2 o Special considerations: Defining fugue, shifting in bass, imitating striking a bell, a good piece to introduce vibrato Four Royal Dances o Mvt 4 The Knight o Eric Ewazen o Duration 1:27 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Mixed meter and hemiola, all sections play melody, bouncing the bow, strong attacks

8th Grade Year October Concert Russian Sailor Dance o Reinhold Gilere arr. Merle Isaaac o Duration 3:30 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: off beats, chromatic lines, third position, two octave scales, variety of dynamics, Ghost of John o Susan Brown o Duration 4:07 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Violin solo, pizz glissando, bass slap, tremolo behind bridge, tapping on instrument (Ghostly effects). Jazz section, A minor Farandole o Georges Bizet arr. Merle Isaac o Duration 3:00 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Romantic style, time change 2/4, 4/4, dance music, from an opera December Concert Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring o Bach arr. Hall o Duration 3:00 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Cantata, two against three rhythms. Change of mood/color at key changes Still, Still, Still o arr. Mark Hellum o Duration 3:00 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Austrian Christmas Carols, soft dynamic and slow tempo Sleigh Ride o Leroy Anderson o Duration 2:50 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, Bb is difficult for strings, brush stroke March Concert Fanfare and Frippery o Richard Stephan o Duration 6:12

o Grade 2 o Special considerations: Know G D and C major, optional 3rd position violin, changing meters!!! Trills Ten Pieces for Children o Bartok arr. Weiner o Duration 9:10 o Grade 3 o Special considerations: variety of bowing patterns and styles, shifting in all parts. Jazz Suite for Strings and Rhythm o Movements 1, 2, and 3. o Leighton Tiffault o Duration 6:50 o Grade 3 Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major o Movements 1 & 2 o Bach arr. Merle Isaac o Duration 7:30 o Grade 3 (mvt 1) Grade 4 (mvt 2)

May

9th Grade Year October American works Short Overture for Strings o Jean Berger o Duration 4:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: works on continuous eighth note passages for stamina, off string bowings, keys with sharps/flats, attempt spicatto Adieu o Todd Coleman o Duration 6:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: thumb position cello, work on vibrato here Legend o David OFallon o Duration 4:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: based on rock, jazz, and pop styles. Heavy bow, needs to rock out to this piece, allows student ownership December A Christmas Festival o Leroy Anderson o Duration 5:45 o Grade 4

March Variations on a Well-known Sea Chantey o Richard Stephan o Duration 7:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: challenge to change between variations, Mantras o Richard Meyer o Duration 5:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: syncopated themes, various bowing styles, only up to 3rd position, contrast between intense outer sections and a legato inner section. May Dancing out the School Year! Hemis Dance o Thiron Kirk o Duration 6:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: rhythmic independence, good for bow practice, not so difficult with notes. Dance of Iscariot o Kirt Mosier o Duration 3:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: intonation issues with chromatic scales, double stops, and parallel major. Simple meter and rhythms, tricky notes. Hungarian Dance No. 5 o Brahms

o Special considerations: Full orchestra, Key of E is difficult on winds, Spiccato, change of time signature 2/4 4/4 time. Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 8 Christmas Concerto o Movements 1 & 2 o Arcangelo Corelli o Duration 4:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Again Baroque style, scalar passages and arpeggios focus on bowings Hallelujah Chorus o Handel o Duration 4:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Band Orchestra and Choir!! Shifting in all parts for orchestra, working on blending and balancing with other instrument groups, learn about the entire work

o Duration 3:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Also parallel minor/major practice, fast 16th note passages, shifting to 5th position! 10th Grade year October Culture fest Jamaican Rumba o Arthur Benjamin o Duration 2:20 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: learn about ostinato and how it works in a rumba, not much difficultly other than understanding style. Italian Concerto o arr. Sheinberg o Duration 4:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Shifting is new for basses and celli, dynamics and musicality is left to class fun opportunity to take ownership of the piece Jazz Legato o Leroy Anderson o Duration 2:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: extended chords and chromaticism, tuning issues there December Messiah: Overture o Handel o Duration 3:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: continuation on learning about entire work, can add trills and turns for a more challenging part Minor Alterations No. 2: Carols from the Dark Side o David Lovrien o Duration 9:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: all melodies in minor keys, learning about minor! Shifting Procession of the Nobles o Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov o Duration 5:30 o Grade 4

March Rosamunde Overture o Schubert arr. Kalmus o Duration 11:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, changing tonal centers even to Gb, Cellos and Basses have fast passages, violins shift up to 6th position momentarily, string crossings Celebration! o Richard Meyer o Duration 3:00 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, shifting tonal centers and chromaticism, frequent syncopations May Chorale Prelude: Wachet Auf o Bach/ Ormandy o Duration 4:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Eb major, wide dynamic range, deep sonorities, modulations Dj vu o Carold Nunez o Duration 6:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: phrasing and dynamic contrasts Great Gate of Kiev o Modeste Mussorgsky o Duration 6:30 o Grade 4 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, heavy bold and weighty Russian style, homophonic textures legato connection between vertical sonorities. 11th grade year October Fugue in G minor o Bach arr. Cailliet o Duration 4:00 o Grade 5 o Special Considerations: Baroque style, light 16th notes, subject and answers. Rounds

o Special considerations: Full Orchestra, Doubling/echoing between WW and Strings, uses band keys which are difficult for strings,

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Three movements David Diamond Duration 14:30 Grade 5 Special considerations: Moves through several keys, contemporary sound, impressionistic, change in time , 4/4, 5/4, soloists in 2nd movement

December Molly on the Shore o Gainger o Duration: 4:10 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Fast finger and bow, higher positions 6th, 4th. Andante Cantabile o Peter Tchaikovsky o Duration 8:00 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Key of Bb and Db, change in meter 2/4, . Violin range up to 5th position, Bass up to F above staff, musicality is a challenge due to slow tempo, phrasing. Romance in C o Sibelius o Duration: 6:10 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Defining Spanish romance proficiency in sharps and flats, double and triple stops. March Heart Wounds and Last Spring, Op. 34 o Two Movements o Edvard Grieg o Duration 8:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: slow long and controlled bow, independence of parts in divisi. Hoe Down from Rodeo o Aaron Copland o Duration 3:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Copland study, very technical and fast, only D major, subdivision of 16th notes, use of detache staccato marcato bowings, HIGH contrast dynamically, double stops, May Holberg Suite Op. 40 o Movement IV o Edvard Grieg

o Duration: 5:00 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: high level of expressive playing, High positions, in violins and cello, cello solo Holberg Suite Op. 40 o Movement V o Grieg o Duration 5:00 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: tempo is fast, tons of notes for violins chromatic passages, slurred and separate string crossings. Slavonic Dnace in G Minor o Dvorak o Duration 4:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, High register in flute and piccolo and violin, Rondo form 12th grade year October An Outdoor Overture o Copland o Duration 9:00 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: continuation of Copland study, Full orchestra, trumpet solo, goes through many keys, good staccato ability, both lyrical and march like passages, good for theory practice Nocturne o William Hofeldt o Duration 5:00 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Eb Major, no open strings, fluent shifting for smooth passages, Third position is required, full tones, rubato. December Fantasia on Green sleeves o Ralph Vaughan Williams o Duration 9:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: With harp/piano and optional flutes, orchestra is now an accompaniment to soloist, bow and dynamic control, tremolo, F minor, up to 4th position in violin, Divertimenti o Allegro K. 138 o Mozart o Duration 5:00

March Overture to Candide o Bernstien o Duration 4:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Fast tempo, Full Orchestra, syncopated melody, string crossing, miniature Solos fro various instruments. Peer Gynt Suit No. 1 Op. 66 o Mvt I, II, III, IV o Edvard Grieg o Duration 14:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Relation to Literature class based off poem, Full Orchestra setting, solos for band instruments string accompaniment, High positions in mvt IV, LOTS of text painting. May Night on Bald Mountain o Mussorgsky o Duration: 9:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: full orchestra double and triple tonguing, Russian style, ostinato, harmonics, dynamic contrast, difficult to put together with band students. Enigma Variations, Op. 36 o Elgar o Duration 4:30 o Grade 5 o Special considerations: Full orchestra, SUPER control skills, very slow speed, so in need of high level of musicality, being able to be barely audible, slow crescendo and decrescendo. Symphony no. 8 Mvt 4 o Dvorak o Duration 10:30 o Grade 5

o Special considerations: off the string brush stroke, A LOT of bow control, quick fingers, dotted rhythms, cellists have important role of support. Divertimenti o Presto K. 136 o Mozart o Duration 4:00 o Special considerations: off the string brush stroke, A LOT of bow control, quick fingers, dotted rhythms, cellists have important role of support.

o Special considerations: Full orchestra, lyrical viola, cello, and bass passages, wind solos, need on and off the string stroke, chromaticism and change of key difficult for winds, romantic style, folk-like theme, good for cross-educational purposes. The progression from October to May introduces several concepts. I wanted my students to learn bow technique for solid sound. I introduced the themes of new genres that students probably have not been exposed too, for example opera. A minor is in the Baroque orchestra style and is a good piece that the students will be able to develop musicality in and excel in quickly. Can Can incorporates band students in with the orchestra at a low level. I think this is an important experience for students to have. If they have it early on, they are more likely to find it a normalcy once they get into high school. For December, I decided it would be fun to do a Holiday themed concert. Gifts is a hymn about simplicity and how it is good to have simplicity in life. It would be good to introduce the hymn to the students, especially since it is set to words. New concepts compared to the Oct. concert are: making the students very aware of their fingers and of the music around them by changing keys, incorporates shifting to third position, something that has not yet been addressed in concert. It also features band students in a full orchestra setting, which continues the acclimation to full orchestra The next pieces are holiday tunes, March from The Nutcracker, and Who Let the Elves Out?. These two pieces are fun and easily recognizable to students. March gives a great opportunity to introduce ballet to students. It also features the classic quarter triplet quarter quarter which is a great way to introduce triplets vs. duple into a lesson. Who Let the Elves Out is a collaborative piece that incorporates percussion on drum set, giving the sound a fun and rockin vibe, sure to get students excited about the orchestra concert. It also gives the low strings a chance to shine in a grooving bass line. This concert has given more individual moments to sections than the last, therefor holding the students accountable. It also has progressed into more challenging keys and has done so within a full orchestra setting. The March Spring into Strings concert is themed around spring-like melodies, and adds a little bit of swing into the mix! Starting off with stringtown stroll, a jazzy tune that is a swing beat. This increases the level of understanding syncopation from prior repertoire. There is also a new orchestral term that is presented: Tremolo sul ponticello. This is a great tune to introduce jazz and its African American origins in New Orleans! Danny boy gets violins shifting into 3rd position, something new to my ensemble, and exercises their bow control in phrasing with long phrases, and also keeps their ears and eyes active with rubato passages. In contrast, spring from Four Seasons offers a great variety in bowing style, including martele and hooked bowings. May wraps up with learning about Mixed meter and hemiola, getting the bow to bounce, imitation of other instruments, and furthering knowledge on shifting. By now, students have a firm grasp on shifting briefly to third position in violin, and extensions in cello, and bow strokes: spiccato, detache, and martele.

Eighth grade begins with demonstrating knowledge of two octave scales, and chromatic scale. We further this knowledge by learning a jazz tune and defining our blues scale in Ghost of John. Reinforcement of 3rd position in violins is used in each song. Students have an opportunity to get outside the box with the Ghost of John and make interesting noises that they normally would not. December also reinforces the idea of two verses three rhythms in Jesu Joy, and continues in the shifting to third, and now second position. Sleigh ride provides an opportunity to learn and work on new bowing technique of brush stroke in between detache and staccato. It also provides the collaboration between band students and orchestra students in a full orchestra setting. We learn a new key for the band students, Bb. In March, it is now mandatory for students to be proficient in D,G, and C Major scale 2 octaves with shifting to 3rd position in violins/violas. Bowing patterns that have on and off the string are introduced, and are necessary for Ten Pieces by Bartok. I also would introduce the background of Bartoks music. This is all to prep for May concert! In May, the year is wrapped up with another Jazz Suite for Strings, and Brandenburg Concerto. These two pieces will demonstrate the yearly-acquired students knowledge of swing beat, shifting to 3rd position, on and some off bow strokes, fluency in reading syncopated rhythms, and the newly acquired ability to accompany a soloist. First semester in 9th grade is based around compositions by American composers in October, and Christmas music in December. October gives students pieces to challenge their old staccato bowing technique and transform it into spicatto. I chose to end the October concert with a piece that students can really take ownership in because it is more relevant to their personal cultures. Leading up to this, students are still working on shifting past 3rd position and cellos are working on thumb position. The fun piece, Legend, is a great way for students to really show off their new techniques they have learned up until now. A fun way to incorporate the band into full orchestra is not new to this ensemble now, so I decided to spice it up and add choir! The Hallelujah Chorus is a collaboration of the entire music department now! Spring semester is all about solidifying what we learned so far into new pieces. All March pieces have challenges, but are not so significant in technique. They are more so in musicality. I programmed this so that students are not scrambling with bowings and fingerings while trying to make beautiful music. Challenges that do arise are such as changing between variations in the Stephan piece, and long flowing phrases in the Grieg. 9th grade May Concert is all about different types of Dances. I thought this would be a great way to get students physically active and teach them about various cultures. The first two pieces separate left hand and right hand issues of difficult bowing with easy notes versus difficult extensions, double stops, and shifting with easy bowing. Then Hungarian Dances pulls all the newly learned materials together and even adds in finally learning shifting to 5th position in violins! 10th grade starts out with learning about various cultures from Jamaica, to Italy, to here in America in New Orleans. Now that students have had classes in

world studies and American studies, it will be more beneficial to talk with them about how the music influences and reflects the culture and its values. Because of this cultural learning experience, I thought it beneficial to pick pieces that were not terribly technically challenging. Basses have continued in their shifting up to G harmonic, Celli are working on forward and backwards extensions and shifting up through 4th position. One thing that is completely new to students in Jazz Legato is the extended chords that are in this piece. It would be worthwhile to explain these as we come across. December brings about another historical review of the messiah. To make this more interesting I was suggested to add trills and turns for a more authentic and challenging performance. There is also a fun Christmas tune piece that is all in minor, something that students havent had a lot of experience with yet. Spring of 10th grade is a time I decided to start really pushing my students to excel quickly. This will come with much scalar practice: the pieces I chose for March were highly involved across the instrument, and even for wind players. Both pieces are for full orchestra. It will be important for students to consistently practice scales in various rhythms so that they will be able to play all syncopated rhythms that occur within these pieces. The May concert is highly focused on developing musicality within an ensemble. The pieces are all thick in texture, leading up to the Great Gate of Kiev which is extremely heavy and full sounding. It is a vital point to teach students how to fully sustain the bow and air stream to produce this Russian style. By the 11th grade, students are able to start the year off with quickly paced music, and have acquired much more stamina: up to 20-minute concerts. Each piece in the October and December concerts require moving through several keys, including Bb, A, D, G, and C. Students will also learn about more advanced theoretical concepts such as impressionism and atonal music. Students now encounter more frequency in time changes as well such as , 5/4, and compound time. By this age, students will have mastered 3rd and 2nd position, and will be shifting into 5th position, and basses will be reading up to F above the staff. Students will have progressed in their ability to play rubato passages, with steady and slow bow speeds. In the spring semester, students are given the opportunity to learn independence of parts through divisi sections. They also are expected to know how to play at a high level of expressivity even with the difficult and high passages. Griegs Holberg Suites is a great example of the expressive playing, with many difficult string crossings, chromatic passages and fast tempo. I also added a Copland piece in this year, because I think that he is a great example of American music, and students will be able to relate to his music because of the popularity it has had in cartoons and other medias. The theme of collaborating with the band continues here with the final piece of the year Slavonic Dances. Senior year is packed with highly challenging repertoire. Even in the first semester, I put a lot of responsibility on students for learning a high level of playing, and I would expect no less. For example, I chose Nocturne by William Hofeldt because he specifically wrote it in Eb to ensure students would not be playing open strings, and would have to utilize their knowledge of shifting. I chose another

Copland piece for this semester because I think it would be a great way for students to apply their prior knowledge on Copland to a piece that is new to them, and compare it. Divertimenti is a classic quartet piece that every string player should know, and since I found an arrangement for orchestra, I thought it very fitting to challenge the groups prior knowledge of that style. Spring semester is by far the most challenging of repertoire I found, however at this point it is very doable for the ensemble. I also chose this rep because it is familiar to many students and parents, and frankly just super cool. I have included many full orchestra arrangements because at this age, it is important for all students to have the full orchestra experience and be a part of the real deal as I like to think of it. Many of the pieces include mini solos for various instruments, allowing my seniors to show off in one last hurrah! I especially liked the piece Peer Gynt by Grieg because it allows for cross-curricular relationships between Literature class and Music Class.