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by Brian Austin Whitney - 05/07/26 01:38 AM
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by Gary E. Andrews - 05/06/26 05:36 PM
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I was recently amazed to discover that the grade school in my town, with only 500 students covering pre-school thru 6th, has a fifth and sixth grade band with 77 members. Rather heavy on the flutes and clarinets, and light in the low brass, but still...
(My flute playing friend says that even with a dozen flutes at that level they are all playing so softly that it is not out of balance.)
The music teacher has arranged for high school students to come in after school hours to give lessons. This approach is spreading to the middle school. Their web site says the students are first exposed to notation in the fourth grade.
Which made me wonder, does anybody know the formal definitions of the different
"grades" of music difficulty used in school bands? Grade I, grade II, etc.
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I beleive that Public school Music is graded upon the range of difficulty of pieces played. The range becomes larger as you move up through the school music program. From my experience, it begin at a fourth or fith in grade school and and octave in middle school,andthen a littel beyondthat in High school. <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by pd:
I was recently amazed to discover that the grade school in my town, with only 500 students covering pre-school thru 6th, has a fifth and sixth grade band with 77 members. Rather heavy on the flutes and clarinets, and light in the low brass, but still...
(My flute playing friend says that even with a dozen flutes at that level they are all playing so softly that it is not out of balance.)
The music teacher has arranged for high school students to come in after school hours to give lessons. This approach is spreading to the middle school. Their web site says the students are first exposed to notation in the fourth grade.
Which made me wonder, does anybody know the formal definitions of the different
"grades" of music difficulty used in school bands? Grade I, grade II, etc.</font>
Greg
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