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High School Bands

Students taking Advanced Band are provided with a balanced comprehensive study of music through the concert band, which develops skills in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains. Instruction is designed to enable students to connect, examine, imagine, define, try, extend, refine, and integrate music study into other subject areas.  

Ensemble and solo activities are designed to develop elements of musicianship including, but not limited to:

  • tone production

  • technical skills

  • Intonation

  • music reading skills

  • listening skills

  • analyzing music

  • studying historically significant styles of literature

Experiences include, but are not limited to, improvising, conducting, playing by ear, and sight-reading. Students are given opportunities to develop the ability to understand and convey the composer’s intent in order to connect the performer with the audience. Time outside of the school day may be scheduled for performances.

A number of public performances may serve as a culmination of daily rehearsal and musical goals. Students are required to participate in performance opportunities, outside of the school day, that support and extend learning in the classroom.

Required performances will include: Holiday Concert, Greene County Band Festival, Spring Concert, Dinner Concert, Boys/Girls Basketball games, High School Graduation, and any other performances agreed upon by the band director and the Eastern High School Administration.

Suggested performances include: Marching band, ISSMA Solo & Ensemble Contest, and any other performance opportunities in the community.