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Join Mrs. Lewis-Wang, a highly qualified music teacher, for fun and advanced music education at Ridgecrest Intermediate School. Learn various instruments and music skills while enjoying concerts and participating in festivals. Parent volunteers are welcome!
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Mrs. Lewis-Wang’s Credentials • Masters Degree In Music Education and Music Performance from the University of Southern California School of Music And School of Music Education • 2 Bachelor Arts Degrees, one in Music, and one in Psychology from the University of Vermont. • Teaching Credential from National University. • 15 Years of Teaching at Ridgecrest Intermediate School.
CIVA (Creative Instrumental and Vocal Arts) • First Trimester General Music with Singing • Second Trimester Ukulele’s with and Without Vocals • Third Trimester student choice on an instrument
Skills • Musicianship-Note Reading, Key Signatures, Music Theory, Notation, Rhythm Training And Music History. • Music Performance-Students will play/sing a wide variety of music from Renaissance Period to the 21st Century. • Students will learn about Articulations and how to do them and learn about Advanced techniques such as Vibrato (CO, AO). • Strings in Concert Orchestra will be learning 3rd position, 5th and higher. • In Concert Band Winds will learn Advanced Techniques of Multiple Tonguing.
Grading • Participation Points, Practice, and Performances • Practice-60-100 minutes per week, with a designated goal. • Periodic Quizzes-Covering material presented in class. • Chair Checks-that demonstrate understanding of either on music fundamentals, or designated measures in our pieces to make sure students are practicing. • In Class Worksheets, Sectionals, Projects.
Concert Report • Each class will complete a Concert Report during the school year. The assignment is worth 100 points. The font size needs to be 12. Spacing can either be single, or double spaced. Please include a program and ticket stub, if you have one. A Concert Report is where you attend a concert as an audience member and write a one page report. In the report you can include who attended the concert, of what the program consisted, who were the performers. You could also include what your favorite piece was and why. Other areas to include what was the genre of the music performed? Was the music performed Jazz, Popular, Musical, Symphonic, or Classical, Movie, or Musical Theater ? For your conclusion make sure you finish leaving the reader with satisfied sense of the end.
Practice Mrs. Lewis-Wang’s Practice Tips • Break up your practicing into: Warm-ups, techniques, and then Pieces, • And then when you get bored with this mix it all around! • Avoid Marathon Practice Sessions. Try to spread out your practicing • Practice with Metronome abd Record Yourself and self-critique. • Practice with a DVD from our method book to make practicing the method book more fun. • Practice with a fellow student. • Listen to the piece we are playing, or singing on You Tube or JW Pepper. • Listen to other performers at a live concert, or through CDs, or DVDs. • We may have Practice Projects where students tape themselves and then email me their videos for comments.
WEBSITES USED Aeries, EDLINE, EDLIO, EDMODO, JW Pepper, Musictheory.net, Quizlet, Shutterfly, SheetMusicPlus, and Youtube.
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FESTIVAL • Concert Band • Concert Orchestra • Advanced Band • Advanced Orchestra
Parent Volunteers • Parent Volunteers will be needed for Field Trips and for Concert supervision during Performances. • Here are some of the things we need help With: Carpooling, Concert Supervision, Taking Pictures, and Refreshments Donations plus Distribution Assistance.
Thank you For Coming! • Go Raiders! • We look forward to a GREAT school year!
