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Performance/Contest Music Selections

APRIL 12: CHSAA Large Group Festival - Cortez, CO
  • On An American Spiritual - David Holsinger
  • Latin American Dances - Clifton Jones

APRIL 15-16: CBA State Concert Band Festival - Fort Collins, CO
  • On An American Spiritual - David Holsinger
  • Latin American Dances - Clifton Jones

APRIL 17: FLC and DHS Jazz Ensemble Concert - FLC Community Concert Hall
Jazz II 
  • Carnaval - Erik Morales
  • Watermelon Man
Jazz I
  • Bari Thought of You
  • We'll You Needn't
FLC Jazz Band and DHS Jazz I
  • Dancing Men - LaBarbara

APRIL 20: UNC Greeley Jazz Festival - Greeley, CO
Jazz I
  • ​Softly, As in the Morning Sunrise - Hammerstein
  • Bari Thought of You
  • We'll You Needn't 

MAY 1: End of the Year Concert & Senior Recognition - FLC Community Concert Hall
Band, Orchestra, and Choir (No Jazz Bands)
Concert Band
  • On An American Spiritual - David Holsinger
  • Classical Rondo (Featuring Rexford Gwinn) 
  • Seal Lullaby (Featuring Emily Rooney)
  • Galop 
Wind Ensemble 
  • Fairest of the Fair - John Philip Sousa
  • Flight for Solo Oboe and Wind Ensemble (Featuring Sarah Craft) 
  • Arabian Dances - Brian Balmages
Combined Band, Orchestra, and Choirs
  • America the Beautiful
  • Hear America Sing! 

MAY 9: DHS Band Awards Banquet - DHS Cafeteria
Jazz I
  • Spain
  • Sir Duke
  • Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Featuring Jazz Seniors)
  • American Patrol

PAST REHEARSAL RECORDINGS TO ANALYZE

How to listen: 
First, listen to the recording and think "Big Picture."
Second, listen to the recording and specifically pull out your part for Balance, Blend, Tone, Dynamics, Articulation, Phrasing .... etc. 
Write anything to help you improve into your music or practice log. THEN PRACTICE!!!!
Third, listen to the recording but this time pull different instruments from the texture to analyze. 
Write a reflection on the back of your April Practice Log from all three of the listenings. :) 

March 23, 2018 - CLICK HERE 
Recorded Latin American Dance III. Jarabe and On An American Spiritual



Past Judges Comments

CBA Concert Band Regionals - March 5, 2018
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Concert Band 
Click Here for the Worksheet from CBA Regionals

Notes from your Director... 

April 28, 2018 - Happy Spring Break! 
Please make sure to email me your playing test for "On An American Spiritual" by April 2, 2018. All you need to do is select 16 measures of your choice, record it, and send it to my email at kreed@durangoschools.org
Best of luck! K. Reed

Please make sure that you are checking your grades every week as we are preparing for State Contest. It is very important that you are positively contributing to the success of the band by practicing and pulling your own wait.
Also, if you would like to make up any of your playing tests please schedule with Mrs. Reed before/after school or at lunch.  - THANKS! K. Reed
DHS Band Handbook 2017-2018
Band Acknowledgement Form 2017-2018

Student Resources

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Band Final - 1st Semester 2018
​Due - JAN. 18 @4pm

Practice Logs

Students are required to practice and fill out a practice log monthly.
December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
March 2018
April 2018
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Music Theory

Online Resources:
www.musictheory.net
Ear Training Websites:
http://tonedear.com/
​https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/
Sight Reading: 
www.sightreadingfactory.com/
Music Staff paper
Music Note Catcher
Quizlet - Book 1 Vocabulary
Quizlet - book 3 Vocabulary

5 Step Critique Process - DHS Music Department 

Coming Soon...

ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
7 ELEMENTS OF MUSIC - Basic Related Terms
Rhythm: (beat, meter, tempo, syncopation)
Dynamics: (forte, piano, [etc.], crescendo, decrescendo)
Melody: (pitch, theme, conjunct, disjunct)
Harmony: (chord, progression, consonance, dissonance, key, tonality, atonality)
Timbre/Tone color: (register, range, instrumentation)
Texture: (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, imitation, counterpoint)
Form: (binary, ternary, strophic, through-composed)
Elements of Music - PDF

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