Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
This assignment will include creating a portfolio of all your work and placed on
wikispaces. Pbworks, wordpress, or google blogger.
Soundscape Assignment
Students will break into small groups (3-4). Each group will agree on a specific
location’s soundscape to record and use as a backdrop for a more traditional piece of
music.
Each group most record a two to three minute segment of the agreed upon soundscape
and then compose a more traditional duet/trio or quartet that changes the way this
soundscape is listened to. Of course, the composition will also be effected by the
presence of the soundscape.
Mr. Carvallo
The presentations will take place during your portfolio presentation
- if you require a portable recorder, arrangements must be made with me
- rehearsals and work must be done during class time and are available to be
booked after school
This is an individual assignment that will require some out of class work. Each student will
arrange an existing song (chords and melody) for one of the following RHSA ensembles; senior
band, junior band, orchestra, choir, etc.
This assignment is to practice arranging skills such as harmonization of a melody, voicing of
chords (closed four, drop two, drop three, smooth voice leading, etc.), choosing instrumentation
(when to use what instruments, various doubling), as well as use of form.
Mr. Carvallo
I will also be looking at your use of class time. This is a self directed assignment and as such I
expect everyone to find what they are working on and not to just sit around or leave the class
without explanation.
5) Written report/reflection about what revisions you made according to the process,
roadblocks, comments and what suggestions you didn’t adhere to. And why you didn’t.
E-Portolio Presentations
This is a Major Assignment. Due dates are as follows (week of). Numbers correspond to the
above components;
1) Thursday April 21
2) Friday May 6
3) Friday May 13
4) Friday May 20
5) Friday May 27
You will be marked on a written plan and your score. Note that the written plan mark will consist
of components 1 and 2 above and the score will be marked with consideration to components 3,
4 and 5.
Mr. Carvallo
Major Assignment rubrics:
Criteria Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Written Plan of Arrangement
Demonstration of Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates
planning / limited planning moderate considerable exceptional
process and unreasonable planning and planning and planning and
expectations mostly reasonable ambitious but well
reasonable expectations thought-out
expectations expectations
Use of Uses musical Uses musical Uses musical Uses musical
appropriate language with language with language with language with
musical language limited moderate considerable high degree of
effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness
Communication of Communicates Communicates Communicates Communicates
ideas with limited clarity with moderate with considerable with high degree
clarity clarity of clarity
Mr. Carvallo