Summit High School Orchestra Rubric
Summit High
School Level
of
Excellence
Rubric Score
(Many
students will
be above their
grade level).
All students
should
strive to
achieve the
standards of
their grade
level.
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
1
2
3
4
*All grade
benchmarks
are contingent
on your
beginning
playing level.
*All grade
benchmarks
are
contingent on
your
beginning
playing level
and your
improvement
over time.
*All grade
benchmarks
are contingent
on your
beginning
playing level
and reaching a
new level of
musicality.
1.Perform an
expansive and
varied
repertoire of
music with
expression
and technical
accuracy,
from a
moderate to
difficult level.
Properly
perform basic
orchestral
works in
various time
periods using
proper string
technique with
little or no
mistakes.
2. Play
expressively
using proper
posture, right
arm
technique,
left hand
technique and
tone
production.
Basic
knowledge of
proper
posture, right
and left arm,
and tone
production.
Properly
perform more
advanced
orchestral
works using
proper string
techniques
and
expression.
Perform
chamber
repertoire.
In depth
knowledge of
technical
aspects of
string playing,
as well as
identify
proper an
improper use.
*All grade
benchmarks
are
contingent on
your
beginning
playing level
and your
motivation to
be the best
you can be.
Properly
Perform with
perform a
mastery
varied level of
orchestral
orchestral
works of
works with
various time
proper
periods and
expressiveness genres with
that reflects the advanced
genre of the
technical
music.
accuracy and
musical
expression.
Reinforcement Mastery level
of technical
of technical
aspect of string aspects of
playing as well proper string
as identify
playing.
proper and
improper use
of the bow.
Summit High School Orchestra Rubric
3. Proper use
and
knowledge of
string
performance.
*All grade
benchmarks
are contingent
on your
beginning
playing level.
4.
Understanding
of the circle of
5ths .
Ability to
comfortably
play with
focused tone.
Understand
and be able
to play with
focused tone
with minimum
difficulty.
Understand
and be able to
play with pure
and focused
tone and
maintain
technical
accuracy.
Effectively
play in any
position while
maintaining
intonation
and focused
tone quality.
Ability to read
the circle of
5ths and
memorize
order.
Ability to play
all major
scales around
the circle of
5ths
Introduce
relative minor
scales around
the circle of
5ths
5. Sight-read
accurately and
expressively,
music with an
appropriate
level of
difficulty.
Sight-read
short major
melodies
Melodies
contain
mostly
stepwise
motion with
basic 4/4 or ¾
time.
Sight-read
major and
minor
melodies
Melodies
contain skips
that outline
chords and
4/4, ¾, or 6/8
times.
Sight-read
major and
minor melodies
Melodies will
contain steps
and skips.
Compose
simple sightreading
examples.
6. Understand
parts of a
orchestral
score.
Basic
understanding
of clefs, key
and time
signatures,
system and
measure
numbers,
dynamics etc.
In depth
knowledge of
score
reading,
adding
articulation
and tempo
markings.
Introduction to
more difficult
scores.
Properly
perform all
major and
minor scales
around the
circle of 5ths
from memory
Expressively
Sight-read
various levels
of melodies
Melodies will
have
chromatic
inflections
and various
time
signatures.
Mastery
knowledge of
score
reading.
Summit High School Orchestra Rubric
Summit High School Orchestra Rubric