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School year: 2004-2005 | 2003-2004

 

OCHSA Symphony Orchestra Auditions 2005


 

String Orchestra (grades 7/8)

Syllabus PDF

Textbooks:
Starer, Robert - Rhythmic Training
Green, Elizabeth: Orchestral Bowings and Routines

Study works:
Bach, J.S. - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major PDF
Mozart, W.A. - String Quartet No. 3
Vivaldi, Antonio - The Four Seasons
 

Program No. 1 - 6 January 2005 - 7:30pm, Symphony Hall

Purcell, Henry - King Arthur Chaconne
Uematsu, Nobuo - Waltz Fragments
Bloch, Jozsef - Andante Religioso PDF
Mendelssohn, Felix - Sinfonia No. 12 in G Minor (Mov. 3)

Festival Program - March 2005

Bach, J.S. - Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mendelssohn, Felix - Sinfonia No. 12 in G Minor

Program No. 2 - 16 May 2005 - 7:30pm, Symphony Hall

Haydn, Franz Josef - Op. 76 No. 3 "Poco Adagio Cantabile"
McLean, Michael - Rhumba from “Six Dances”
Elgar, Edward - Serenade Op. 20

Concert DVD's will be mailed home soon!



 

String Masterclass (grades 9-12)

Syllabus PDF



15 September
Alexander Hwong - Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro
Lisa Lee - Handel Sonata No. 3 - Movement I
Margaret Wu - Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 4 - Movement I

22 September
Katie Murtough - Eccles Sonata for Viola and Piano - Movement II
Joyce Ahn - Bruch Concerto in G Minor - Movement I
Mark Hsieh - Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 - Movement I
Steve Nam - Bruch Concerto in G Minor - Movement I

29 September
Meghan Wu - Lalo Symphonie Espagnole - Movement III
Ramiro Encizo - Mozart Concerto No.3 - Movement I
Jane Lee - Bruch Concerto in G Minor - Movement I
Lisa Lee - Mozart Concerto No. 3 - Movement I

6 October
Margaret Wu - Dvorak Concerto - Movement I
Alexander Hwong - Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro

13 October
Janet Lee - Mozart Concerto No. 5 - Movement III
Lisa Lee - Bach Partita No. 3 - Gavotte en Rondeau
Lecture:Tetrachords

20 October
Alexander Hwong - Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro
Margaret Wu - Prokofiev Sonata

27 October
Lecture: Posture and Tone Production

3 November
Guest Presentation: University of California, Irvine
Department of Music Faculty
Haroutune Bedelian, violin
John Scanlon, viola
Dr. Margaret Parkins, cello

10 November
Jane Lee - Kayser Etude
Joyce Ahn - Kreutzer Etude
Ramiro Encizo - Mozart Concerto No. 3 - Movement I
Meghan Wu - Bach - Partita No. 3 Preludio

17 November
Lecture: "Eight Short Shifts" and Yost Scales

24 November
Mark Hsieh - Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 - Movement I
Katie Murtough - Bach Suite (viola)

1 December
Lecture: Chamber Music History

8 December
*** Guest Artist: William Fitzpatrick, violin ***
Steve Nam - Bruch/Paganini
Margaret Wu - Bloch/Dvorak

12 January 2005
Lecture: Chamber Music – Josef Bloch

19 January 2005
Lecture: Chamber Music – Franz Joseph Haydn

26 January 2005
Lecture: Chamber Music – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2 February 2005
*** Guest Artist: Gerrit Maurer, violinmaker ***
Instrument making, maintenance, history.

9 February 2005
Lecture: Chamber Music – Ludwig van Beethoven

16 February 2005
Lecture: Chamber Music beyond Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
Recommended Reading List

23 February 2005
*** Guest Artist: Haroutune Bedelian, violin ***
Hugo Chang – Bach Fugue (Partita I)
Steve Nam – Vitali Chaconne
Meghan Wu – Lalo Symphonie Espagnole Mov. III
Margaret Wu – Bloch Nigun

2 March 2005
The Art of the Etude
(ALL students bring instruments)

9 March 2005

16 March 2005
Lecture: Recommended Reading

23 March 2005

6 April 2005
Rhythmic Training

13 April 2005
*** Guest Artist: Robert Becker, viola ***

27 April 2005
Rhythmic Training

4 May 2005
Ensemble Reading

11 May 2005
Audition Excerpts and Summer Programs (still accepting students for summer)





 

Music Appreciation (grade 8)

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Syllabus PDF
Lecture 1 PDF
Lecture 2 PDF

Lecture 3 PDF
Lecture 3: Listening examples MP3 (note: these are from last year's listening exam)

Lecture 4 HTML
Lecture 4: Listening examples MP3

Quiz Resubmit Policy PDF

Lecture 5 PDF
Lecture 6 PDF

QUIZ 2 STUDY GUIDE PDF

Lecture 7 PDF

Lecture 8 PDF

 

Semester Two

External references for Lectures (wikipedia.org - The accuracy of these materials may be subject to some debate; however they are not more inaccurate than some of the printed materials available):

 

Franz Josef Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

 

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Franz Schubert

Antonin Dvorak

 

Paul Hindemith

Gustav Mahler

Aaron Copland

Leonard Bernstein

 

*** FINAL PAPER ***



 

Music and Media (grades 11/12)

Syllabus PDF
Lecture 1 PDF
Lecture 2 PDF
Lecture 3 PDF
Lecture 4 PDF - Homework 1

Lecture 5 PDF - Homework 2

Email your work in progress or finished projects by using the "export as Ogg Vorbis" or "export as MP3" feature in the Audacity File menu, then send me the resuling *.mp3 or *.ogg file.

Lecture 6 PDF - Homework 3

FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS PDF



Semester Two

Project (Due by June 5, 2005)