Middle School and Varsity Concert May 2!!
Varsity Choir
Concert Prep – Go through whole concert each day
Quartet work Thursday and Friday
JV – Skill Lessons and Lagan Love
Review dynamics and tempo
Tuesday Staccato and Fermata
Wednesday Accent Tennuto nand Marcato
Thursday – First and Second Endings
Fridays – Singers Choice!
7/8 Grade
Blue Moon/Cantar/Elijah
Preparation for Concert
6th Grade
Disney Spectacular!
6th Grade program May 16 3:00
FINE ARTS NIGHT APRIL 18 VARSITY AND 7/8 – BE AT AUDITORIUM AT 525
Varsity
Fine Arts performance prep
Bohemian Rhapsody
Ensemble and State Work
JV
Lagan Love
Skill Lessons
7/8
Fine Arts Performance Prep
Blue Moon
Cantar
Banso Aba
Thursday /Friday High School Musical
Continue Sightreading
6th Grade
Disney spectacular – add speaking parts
Incorporate Solos
Easter Break /Sub
Detailed plans for sub in notebook
April 8
JV Choir
Bohemian Rhapsady
Finish Key Signatures
Naturals, Sharps, and Flats
Acidental
Varsity
Firm up all songs for Fine Arts Evening
Lagan Love Senior Boys
Festsival Sanctus whole Choir
Fire Fire – State Bound Quartet
Kyrie Whole Choir
7/8th Grad
Prepare for Fine Arts Night
Joshua
Gloria
Sight reading Lesson 22 – 25
Thursday/Friday – Musical
6th Grade. Monday through Thursday
Disney Spectacular
Friday Solo and Individual work
Varsity
New Sightreading Concept
Introduce Altered pitches
Accidental
Di, Ri Fi Si Li
Practice
Add chromatic scale
Solo and Ensemble work – ensembles perform Friday. and Thursday. Sign up sheet for solos. Spring Concert Work
JV
Disney. Review Piano Skills. Choose new songs
7/8th and 6th
Disney Spectacular
Choose songs from Disney for Spring Concert
Sightreading Work continued
Varsity
Monday – final practice for Concert and Sight Reading
Tuesday – Concert and Sight Reading in Mount Pleasant
Wednesday – Celebration Day
Thursday – Solo and Ensemble Work
Friday – Solo and ENsemble Work and choose final song for Spring Program
JV
Last week of Piano
MOnday Guide Notes and Flashcards
Tuesday – To Plato Lab
Wednesday ADding the next note beside Guide Notes
Thursday – 2 new Songs
Friday – Student Choice
7/8 Grade
Sol Feg to lesson 18
Key of F. Key of G
Thursday – Solo Work
Friday High School Musical
6th Grade
Practice in Auditorium for Rock and Roll Forever!
Varsity
share from TMEA
Determine dates for accompanist and workshops
Sightreading rules
Each day – sightreading as if we were at contest
Salmo 150 Sanctus and We Remember
Intense vowel work – Start memorizing and polishing in preparation for March 5 contes
JV
Yellow Book Songs
Identify sharps and flats
Transfer Skills to piano
Week 2 Skill measure quarter note half notes whole notes
Steps on piano Skips on piano
Transfer all skills learned to keyboard
Day 4 reward day
Middle School
15/15/15. (15 each skill, yellow book, 15 High School Musical)
Lesson 13 and Lessson 14 Sight reading
Assign solos for High School Musical
Day 4 each week – work on solos
6th Grade
Rock and Roll forever
Finish choreography
End solo tryouts
Add script
Choose date!
9:30 – 10:18
JV Choir – C
Monday Skill Lesson
Note Names on the treble clef
Discuss Every Good Bird Does Fly or any sentence that has these letters
And spaces FACE
Work at the board and see who can get it right first – call out first line, second space etc
Have fun with them
Then work on Lesson 1 Unit 3
Read over p. 39 Discuss music alphabet going forwards and backwards Ask them what comes before g, f, a etc
Do lesson 1 p.40 together
Use Yellow Books Experiencing Choral Music
They sing melody only
Elijah Rock pp 18/19
America the Beautiful work on memorizing words for first and third verses Test them to see how much they have memorized – they can work with a friend to work on memorizing They can do first verse monday/Tuesday and 2nd verse WednesdayThursday
CALYPSO GLORIA PP 66-67
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And any others you would like to do The CD player hooks up to the computer which hooks up to the epson speaker! All of the music is in the music app – look under recently added
Unit 13 Lesson REview p. 41
Introduce Bass Clef note names
Do the same thing on the board
Have them write the sentence three times
Great Big Dogs Fight Animals or sentence of their choice
All Cows EAt Grass
Read p. 42
Use Yellow Books Experiencing Choral Music
They sing melody only
Elijah Rock pp 18/19
America the Beautiful work on memorizing words for first and third verses Test them to see how much they have memorized – they can work with a friend to work on memorizing They can do first verse monday/Tuesday and 2nd verse WednesdayThursday
CALYPSO GLORIA
Thursday
SKILL LESSON 43
Names of the Bass Clef
Leger LInes – Discuss Have them write in note names os p. 44
Use Yellow Books Experiencing Choral Music
The CD player hooks up to the computer which hooks up to the epson speaker!
Thursday
P.44 Leger LInes
Practice at board
draw them up on board then have them label or you can have them draw them
Use Yellow Books Experiencing Choral Music
They sing melody only
Elijah Rock pp 18/19
America the Beautiful work on memorizing words for first and third verses Test them to see how much they have memorized – they can work with a friend to work on memorizing They can do first verse monday/Tuesday and 2nd verse WednesdayThursday
CALYPSO GLORIA
IAnd any others you would like to do The CD player hooks up to the computer which hooks up to the epson n speaker!
ON Fridays, I let them play their songs. They have to be clean lyrics, but it is a little free time for them. If they havent finished skill lessons, this is also when they catch up.
Varsity Choir 10;20 – 1110?
Please have Layla Addi do a five minute warm up Contest Piece : Salmo 150
Sing through this 3 x as a group. *Have them break into parts and work on their respective SATB parts
Thursday Five Minute Warm up Work On Sanctus intensely Sing at least three times as a group. Work parts, then come back together for last ten minutes
During enrichment if you don’t mind, you can work altos, or bass, or sopranos that are available or section leaders.
Friday
We Remember
Same schedule as before!
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2:00 7/8th Grade YWe do 15/15/15
15 minutes of skills
15 minutes of yellow book
15 minutes of High School Musical Songs
Skills In the big maroon notebook they should be on Lesson 6 – pp 10/11
Discuss key signatures We are focusing on c g f
We clap the rhythms
Sing the sol feg together as sopranos and altos
Then we put the harmony altogether for lines 5 and 6 (they will need to sing separately first)
iI have tenors read soprano line and sing octave down
Then next 15 – go to yellow book Experiencing Choral Music
Do the same songs as you did with JV
Elijah
America
Calypso
You will have to pound out parts but they are working on it and capable(as opposed to JV)
Last 15 – Sing songs from High School Musical Junior – the CD is downloaded into the computer under the red music tab or I will leave the actual CD as well
The songs are all paper clipped in the book – just sing through all of them if time!
3:00 – 3:45 6th Grade
3:00 6th Grade
The purpose is just to get some ideas for moves
Then Tuesday go through each song – you can pull up on Youtube just put in song name and John Jacobson
Sing through each song onceWork on moves for each song! You can probably only get through like 2 or three We already started on the first one.
February 4-9
Varsity
Intense Wrok on Concert and Sightreading Prep
JV Continue Skill Lessons and Yellow Book Songs
7/8 Grade.
Skil Lessons Sight Reading Lessons
yellow Book
6th Grade
Rock and roll Forever
All Songs
Add Choreography
Varsity
Intensive Choir work on Solos
Each student must perform by end of the week. Sign up for a time
SATB Sightreading
Begin work on contest songs
JV
Continue Skills
Choose Solos
Work on Rock and Roll for fun
7/8
Elijah Rock-
Amnerica the Beautiful.
Shalom Aleichem by goldfabb Jewish song
Continue High School Musical
Sightreading daily
Rest of class needs to choose solos
6th Grade
Rock and Roll Forever
Sol Feg
Varsity
SATB Sightreading
Solo Work for Contest
JV
Skill Work
Rock and Roll Songs for fun
6th Grade
Rock and Roll Forever – 1st 2 songs
7/8 Grade Choir
High School Musical
2 -5 students choose songs for solo – listen to choices together
JV Choir
Unit 2. Rhythm
Lesson 1 Rests. Whole Note Half note Quarter note Eighth note
Lesson 2 Whole rests and Half Rests
Lesson 3 Quarter rest and Eighth Rests
Lesson 4 Barlines and Measures
Choose songs for the 9 weeks
Varsity Choir
Submit all songs for solo/ensemble to PML website
Determine ensembles and choose songs
Each day this week will be a grade for staying on task -uses time wisely, and accomplishments
Middle School
7/8 Grade
Elijah Rock- discuss what a spirtual is “biblical themes – slavery etc
Talk about key signatures – discuss minor
Sing through whole song adding articulation dybamics
2nd day add Amnerica the Beautiful. Work in unison this week. Goal is to have memorized by the end of the week
Talk about legato
3rd song Shalom Aleichem by goldfabb Jewish song
Friday – assign and work on solos for judging
Have a game of the week Thursday
6th Grade
Day 1 – Introduction and Class Procedures/Supplies
Day 2 /3Watch Broadway BEat
Day 4 Songs of Choice!