Week of SEPT 29

Skill-building:
Review and combine skills from previous weeks--e.g. scale with steady beat or different note values; half-step/whole step exercise with dynamics, Diction/IPA with tonal patterns from music, etc. Everybody be creative!

Compere--1st and 2nd phrases of French this week. Use IPA as much as possible
Schooldays--Both parts together this week
Stand in that River--will sing with TCC kids at International Dinner
Music Alone Shall Live--review. make sure notes are held full value.
Pythagorean Round--review melody and skips. Try in a round--careful of notes held full value and rests on strong beat

Housekeeping: Take up yellow Schedule reporting sheets

Week of SEPT 22

Skill of the week:
keeping the beat--
1. set the beat and have the choir count silently from 1-5. clap sharply on 5
Increase to 8; 12;20
2. Movements in duple and triple meter: marching, swinging arms, step-clap-clap, etc.

Organization: Assign A,B, and C groups. Maybe use the 3-part divisi at the end of Schooldays to get balance. B should divided into 2 groups (B1 and B2)

Music Alone Shall Live--everyone should know the melody now. If review needed, take it. To reinforce steady beat, try having singers 1st clap on the first beat of every bar. Then, only sing on the first beat of the bar. For the ones who need a real challenge, see who can sing only on the 3rd beat of the bar. Test A, B, and C selections with the canon.

Pythagorean Round--review melody. Test choir's ability to keep steady beat. Try the round this week

TR only:
Eli, Eli--voicing "m" on 3rd beat of dotted half note. Holding out the half notes, phrasing. Dynamics following the ascending and descending line in bars 6-12.

Amfalula Tree--B1 and A on alto line; B2 and C on soprano line

Housekeeping: Some folks may try to turn in unform orders--don't take them. IMPORTANT: the deadline will have passed by Tues or Wed rehearsal and any late orders will incur extra rush fees. Please MAIL order forms to AYS office or fax if paying by credit card.

Week of SEPT 15

Pass out Practice Agendas--dictate some things that singers should write in them.
In addition to scale patterns with solfege, drill half steps and whole steps Page 3-4 in workbook. Find the half steps and whole steps in the scale


Other drill and practice: Have kids sing the scale "silently" while you do hand signals. Stop on any pitch you wish and they sing that pitch out loud.


Compere--solfege and intro counting
Gavotte--reinforce whole and half step lesson
Schooldays--opens with half step. Chromatic patterns
Wind and Amfalula Tree--not too much on solfege today; work diction instead. vocal line on The wind. [u] sound needs focus (as in "Who"). reinforce and review IPA symbols for pure vowels


Housekeeping: Uniform order forms to pass out; Used Uniform Sale tomorrow at Callanwolde
Auditions at East and West this week--SEPT 17 for West at Mable House and SEPT 19 for East at the Sanford Performing Arts Ctr

Week of SEPT 8, 2009

Top priorities this week:

Solfege patterns: skips to Do and skips to La; use pure vowels of solfege for good tone
IPA for first five pure vowel sounds A,E, I, O, U

TRE:
Schooldays -- teach tune by rote, focusing on facial expression. Ask kids for ideas on some "choralography"
Compere -- solfege melody
Gavotte -- solfege with hand signals
Any review from last week

TR Central, North, West:
Name game
Music Alone Shall Live -- teach solfege; work tone and vocal line
Eli, Eli -- intro minor scale; drill skips ahead; read language using IPA vowels learned
Gavotte -- review hand signals. work in pairs
IMM break out
Pythagorean Round -- same minor scale as Eli Eli
Schooldays -- run if have time

Housekeeping: mini-flyers about SEPT 10 All-Family meeting; uniform measuring; audition flyers