Orchestra - Grade -8
STANDARD	SKILLS and CONCEPTS	VOCABULARY
O.8.2 Playing an instrument alone and with others.	O.8.2.L1 Refining technical skills necessary to play more advanced music.
	O.8.2.L2Play from music in 5 sharps and five flats in thirds and arpeggios.
	O.8.2.L3 Play in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th positions in concert music.
	O.8.2.L4Refining bow control, vibrato and tone quality to
	play more expressively.
	O.8.2.L5 Be able to perform natural, melodic and harmonic one
	octave scales.
	O.8.2.L6 Learn trills and grace notes.	trills, grace notes
O.8.3 Reading, notating and interpreting music	O.8.3.L1 Notate all major scales.  Learn the difference between natural, melodic and harmonic minor.	natural minor, melodic minor,
	O.8.3.L2 Sight read more complex music while observing expression markings and following the conductor.	harmonic minor.
	O.8.3.L3 Learn additional tempo and expressive markings.	piu mosso, cantabile, molto, poco
	chant and clap rhythm patterns which include quarter, half whole, dotted notes, eighths and sixteenth notes.
O.8.4 Improvising melodies and accompaniments.	O.8.4.L1 Being able to improvise 16 beat patterns using the notes of a diatonic scale with an ostinato or drone background.
O.8.9 Evaluating and critiquing musical performances.	O.8.9.1 Using a classroom devised evalutation tool, critique either a performance of your own or of another performer by noting both positive aspects and aspects that could be improved.
O.8.6 Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.	O.8.6.1 Identify a musical work as being in tondo, theme and variation, or ABA form.	ABA, theme and variation, rondo, polyphonic
O.8.5 Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.	O.8.5.L1Compose a piece for their own instrument using a larger set of pitches.