These classes focus on the fundamentals of music reading, decoding symbols and motor coordination. Students meet once a week for 40 minutes. The recorder program begins in third grade. These include fifth and sixth grade students. These include: Awards Assemblies, 3 Concerts, 3 Parades, All County auditions/ festival, NYSSMA solo festival, and the Village of Elmsford’s annual tree lighting ceremony. These students qualify to perform at the numerous events that occur during the school year. Students qualify for Advanced Band when they have: completed Book #1 and performed the solo selection at the end of the book. Concepts are pulled from page 5 through 26 of Book #1. Longer selections of music are chosen based upon rhythmic durations and range of notes. Examples of this practice are reflected during the Recorder & Beginner Band Concert. Students practice 3-5 exercises from subsequent pages of Book #1 as a group during each rehearsal. Students learn to “warm up” as a group by playing five notes of a B flat concert scale. The Beginner Band includes all students who have passed all materials up to page 12, in Book #1 of the Standard of Excellence series by Bruce Pearson. The performing instrumental music groups at the Alice E Grady Elementary School include the Advanced and the Beginner Bands. Extra lessons/ makeup lessons are offered at recess. These lessons are broken up into homogeneous groups with students grouped together based on level of ability and instrument being studied. The instrumental music program offers each student one forty-minute lesson, once a week. The music program at the Alice E Grady Elementary School includes a comprehensive curriculum of general, choral and instrumental education.
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