Intermediate Orchestra

<p>Students will:</p>
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<li>Enter with the skill set established in Beginning Orchestra Grade 7 and or meet the criteria for intermediate orchestra.</li>
<li>Understand and respond to music notation, including articulations of various bowings, compound meters, even subdivisions and key signatures with two sharps.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Develop the ability to tune the instrument by ear.</li>
<li>Create rhythmic or melodic improvisations, 2-4 measures in length.</li>
<li>Respond to conducting gestures involving changes of tempo, articulation, and style.</li>
<li>Demonstrate learning through performances and presentations, including solo performance as appropriate.</li>
<li>Sight Read two grade levels below concert literature.</li>
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