Assessment in Band

Materials and Rehearsal Techniques

4 April 2017
Colleen Grady and Richard Laprise
Agenda for Assessment
Our experience
The purpose
What to assess
How to assess it
Think about the last
ensemble class you

How were you assessed?
When were you assessed?

were in... Did you receive feedback on

what you did well? On what to
improve?
Was this part of assessment?
Think about the last
ensemble class you Did you ever just give grades

taught... with no direct criteria for

assessment?
From Scott Rush
Why?
 What is the
O S E
R P
purpose of
U
PAssessment?
Dr. Dennis Darlings 5 purposes of assessment
1. To help students learn

2. To monitor students progress

3. To motivate student learning HOW?

4. To improve the quality of instruction

5. To assist educators in evaluating their teaching

It also serves as Music is specifically cited as part of a
well-balanced education in the ESSA.

We need to be able to prove that our

students are WELL-BALANCED!
What can we assess in band?
S G A K
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sh o
ha t s s ?
W ass e
w e
From Understanding by Design
by Wiggins and McTighe
How
can
asse we
ss?
Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance
Authenticity
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t s tr y
Le 1. What piece should we perform? (Music Selection)
2. What does this piece have to offer? (Analysis)
3. What do we want our students to learn? (Outcomes)
4. How are we going to teach these concepts? (Strategies)
5. How can we make sure our students have learned the
objectives? (Assessment)
6. How can student assessment results inform our
teaching? (Evaluation)
Composers
Brian Balmages (b. 1975)
Composer, conductor, educator
Works premiered and performed
by several leading orchestras and
ensembles
Director of Instrumental
Publications for The FJH Music
Company
For wind bands, composers for
grade levels .5-6
His music is Hit or Miss
Balmages Compositions for Wind Band (fromJoywind
African Journey
Always United, Forever Strong Fanfare on a Theme of Imagination Kindred Spirits (2009)
Among the Clouds
Arabian Dances
Awakening, The
Backstage Pass (2015)
Beyond the Summit (2004)
Blue Ridge Reel
Bright Morning Stars
Call of the Wild (2013)
Camptown Variations
Chant and Savage Dance
Chesapeake Serenade
Comet Ride
Conquest
Courtly Dance and Procession Instant Christmas Spirit
Dragonfly
Elements (2010)
Enchantment (2014)
Endless Rainbows (2013)
Escapades
Etowah
Evocatio (2014)
Falcon Fanfare (2012)
rep)
Summer
Open Space (2014)
Resounding!
of Life Parade of the Jesters
Fanfare Canzonique (2003) Summit City
Kilauea (The Volcano's Fury) Pele (2004)
Sun Cycles (2012)
Phasing Thunder (2014)
Flight Swirling Prisms
Legacy (Processional for Proclamation
Flight of the Griffin Symphonic
Band) Proudly We Hail
Forever... (2014) Episodes
Legend Raging Machines
Fusion (2007) Symphony No. 1
Light at the End of Forever, Rain (2008)
Gettysburg (A Civil War Portrait) for Brass
A Reverberations
Groove Music (2013) Temple of the
Loudoun Praises Rhythms and Riffs
Haunted Clocks (2014) Murals (2011)
Lullaby to the Moon Rippling Watercolors
Hero's Destiny, A That Which Binds
Majestica Rite of Passage
House Divided, A (2013) Us (2015)
Marche Diabolique (2014) Rocky Mountain Romp
Hypnotic Fireflies (2013) Three Celtic
Metal (2013) Sapier's Story
Images of Ireland Dances (2008)
Midnight Madness Shadows Unleashed
Incantation and Ritual Through
Midnight Mission Shenandoah Triptych
In Nature's Glory Courageous Eyes
Midnight on Main Street Shrine of the Fallen
View of the World,
Midnight Sky Silence overwhelmed
Into the Arctic (2015) A
Miramar Fanfare Smithsonian Suite
In Nature's Glory Waves
Moscow, 1941 Sound Prisms
Instant Christmas Spirit When Spirits Soar
Motion (2006) Sparks (2007)
Into the Arctic (2015) Whispering Winds
Nevermore (2011) Spirit of the Stallion
Invictus Winged Victory
Not Afraid to Dream Star Above, Shine
Jingle Bell Tones Winter Dances
O Mio Babbino Caro Brightly
Journey By Night Within the Castle
Of Emperors and Chariots Starscapes
Joy in All Things (2012) Walls (2012)
Olympia Summer Dances (2000)
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008)
Studied with Hindemith
Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for Meditations
on Ecclesiastes
Emmy Award in 1965 for The Louvre
Chairman for the Contemporary Music
Project from 1964-1972
Dello Joios Compositions for Wind Band
Aria and Roulade (1984)
Caccia (1978)
Colonial Ballads
Concertante (1973)
Dancing Sergeant, The (1979)
Fantasies on an Original Theme (1994)
Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn (1968)
From Every Horizon (1965)
Metaphrase (1991)
Satiric Dances (1975)
Scenes from "The Louvre" (1966)
Songs of Abelard (1969)
Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)
Ron Nelson (b. 1929)
Degrees completed at Eastman
Brown University faculty until retirement
First musician to be awarded Acuff Chair of
Excellence in the Creative Arts
1993 - Passacaglia (Homage to B-A-C-H) won
National Association Prize
ABA Ostwald Prize
Sudler international Prize
Awarded Medal of Honor by John Philip
Sousa Foundation in 1994
Commissions and appears as guest
composer/conductor.
Nelsons Compositions for Wind Band
Concerto for Piano & Aspen Jubilee (1984) Lauds (Praise High Day) Nightsong (1995)
Symphonic Band (1948) (1991)

Mayflower Overture Danza Capriccio (1985) To the Airborne (1992) Fanfare for Kennedy
(1958) (revised 1997) Center (1995)

Rocky Point Holiday Brevard Fanfare (1986) Passacaglia (Homage Fanfare for the New
(1969) on B-A-C-H) (1992) Millennium (1999)

Savannah River Holiday Te Deum Laudamus Epiphanies (Fanfares Pastorale: Autumn Rune
(1973) (1988) and Chorales) (1994) (2006)

Fanfare for a Morning Alleluias (1989) Chaconne (In

Celebration (1982) Memoriam) (1994)

Medieval Suite (1983) Fanfare for the Hour of Sonoran Desert Holiday
Sunrise (1989) (1994)

Pebble Beach Sojourn Resonances I (1990) Courtly Airs and Dances

(1983 (1995)
Donald Grantham (b. 1947)
Studied with Nadia Boulanger
Professor of Composition at the University
of Texas, Austin
Awards
Prix Lili Boulanger
Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition
Concordia Chamber Symphonys American
Composer Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
3 National Endowment for the Arts Grants
3 NBA/Revelli Competition
2 ABA/Ostwald Competition
National Opera Associations Biennial
Composition Competition
Granthams Compositions for Wind Band
After Hafiz (2016) Come, Memory (2002) Fantasy Kentucky Harmony Wondrous Love Tuba Concerto
Variations (2000) (2008) (Grantham) (2012)
(1927/1998)

Baron Cimetieres Concerto in One Farewell to Gray Let Evening Come Sol y Sombra (2014) Variations on an
Mambo (2004) Movement for Bass (2001) (Grantham) (2014) American Cavalry
Trombone (1979) Song (2001)

Baron Piquant on Court Music (2005) Fayetteville Bop Music for the Spangled Heavans
Pointe (2011) (2002) Blanton (2006) (2010)

Baron La Croixs Dont You See? (2001) From an Northern Celebration Starry Crown (2007)
Shuffle (2010) Alabama (2001)
Songbook (2007)

Baron Samedis Fantasy on In Dulci Honey in the Phantasticke Symphony for Winds
Sarabande (and Soft Jubilo (2015) Rock (2008) Spirites (2002) and Percussion
Shoe) (2005) (2009)

Bums Rush (1994) Fantasy on La JS Dances Shenandoah Stomp (Grantham)

Golondrina (2003) (2003) (2009)

Cloudless Day, Bitter Fantasy on Mr. Hydes Jai t au bal Southern Harmony Trumpet Gloria
Sky (2002) Song (1998) (1999) (1998) (2006)