- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal
- Make sure there is a pencil on your music stand
- Make sure there is a little finger thickness of space between your bow hair and bow stick
- Lots of rosin on the bow please!
Today's Objectives
- Refine Appalachian Hymn
- "Reality check" on Prelude and Fugue
Homework - due Wednesday
- Music Theory 101 - Section 6
Classroom & Rehearsal Activities
[5] First Five (see above)
[10] Ensemble Sound Development
- RH1 (soft - upper half only), RH3 (loud - full bow)
- Tune
- Festival Orchestra Warmups
[60] Ensemble Rehearsal
- Appalachian Hymn
- 9 - full bow
- 17-25
- 33 - middle of bow for staccato
- 35-36 & 39-40 - reps reps reps!
- 39-42 - change the half note into a quarter note, then reps to solidify the transition
- pizzicato technique
- 55-58 - reps to solidify the transition
- beginning - upper half of bow; full bow at 8
- full run
- The Grotto
- full run - vibrato on the dotted half notes only if you know how
- Prelude and Fugue
- erase RESET and TIP and replace with MID
- 1sts erase TIP at 37
- solidify rhythm and dynamics at 9-12
- 54-end
- 50-54
- 44-45
- 46-47
- 48-49
- 44-49
- 44-54
- 42-43
- 40-41
- 35-44 - 1sts add accent on beat 2
- 31-35
- 27-31
- full run
[9] Clean up / Reminders
- Honor Orchestra rehearsal TOMORROW at Los Alisos
- Honor Orchestra dress rehearsal is Wednesday at Excelsior
- Honor Orchestra concert is Thursday at Excelsior
- Our Spring Concert is March 9th