Advanced Orchestra
Standards	SKILLS and CONCEPTS	VOCABULARY
O.AO.2 Playing an instrument alone and with others.	O.AO.2.L1 Refining technical skills necessary to play more advanced music.  Refining vibrato, tone quality and intonation.   Strings play selected scales in three octaves depending upon the demands of the repertoire.
	O.AO.2.L2 Perform from music all major and minor keys in thirds and arpeggios.
	O.H.2.L3.Perform natural, melodic and harmonic two octave scales in all keys.
	O.AO.2.L4 Be able to perform advanced bow techniques such as loure, sul tasto, and tremelo.	loure, tremelo, sul tasto
	O.AO.2.L5 Understand and perform scales in the dorian mode.	dorian mode
	O.AO.2 L6Learn to blend with and tune to wind instruments.
	O.AO.2.L7Cellos and basses learn to play in tenor clef. and violas learn to play in treble clef.
O.AO.3 Reading notating and interpreting music.	O.AO 3.L1 Notate all major key signatures and scales.
	O.AO.3.L2Sight read more complex music while observing expression markings and following the conductor.
	O.AO.3.L3.Learn additional tempo and expressive markings. Chant and clap more complex rhythm patterns in parts.	animato, impetuoso, grave, grande, forza
O.AO.4 Improvising melodies and accompaniments.	O.AO.4.L1.Being able to improvise a solo using a diatonic or pentatonic scale.
	O.AO.4.L2 Improvise own arrangement of a melody.
O.AO 9 Evaluating and critiquing musical performances.	O.AO.9.L1Students evaluate their own performances and other groups within a class using a rubrics.
	O.AO.9.L2 Students compare their performance to a recording of a professional orchestra.
O.AO.8 Understanding music in relation to history and culture.	O.AO.8.L1Students study composers and compositional styles.  They identify music as being from a specific era.	contrapuntal, homophonic, nationalistic, baroque, classical, romantic, contemporary periods.
O.AO.6 Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.	O.AO.6.1Identify musical forms such as AB,ABA, rondo, fugue, rondo or theme and variations when heard.	sonata allegro form