Intermediate Orchestra

Students will:

• Enter with the skill set established in Beginning Orchestra Grade 8 and or meet the criteria established for Intermediate Orchestra.
• Understand and respond to music notation, including articulations of various bowings, compound meters, even subdivisions and key signatures with two sharps.
• Develop the skill to play a range of one and half octaves, using extensions and regulating bow weight, speed and contact; demonstrate these skills as a member of the ensemble.
• Develop the ability to tune the instrument by ear.
• Create rhythmic or melodic improvisations, 2-4 measures in length.
• Respond to conducting gestures involving changes of tempo, articulation, and style.
• Demonstrate learning through performances and presentations, including solo performance as appropriate.
• Sight Read two grade levels below concert literature.