Review note values and counting this week
Review solfege hand signals and give some random melodies
Wassail Song--solfege through. (No descant)
Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day--word stress and rhythm. We'll do verses 1, 2, and 4 for the recital.
S'Vivon--introduce concept of parallel minor to Tr Choir kids.
Christmas Time is Here--teach by ear. Memory as quickly as possible
Oseh Shalom--vowels/tone and long phrases stressed as teaching the Hebrew melody. Maybe just work with 1st two phrases
Housekeeping: Distribute Holiday folder, Repertoire List, and Music Library check-out slip
Sing-a-thon packets go out today. Uniforms.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Week of OCT 20
Last week of music for Spring
Skill of the week
Reflection on International Dinner performance
Review of these pieces this week:
Pythagorean Round
Wind and the Amfalula Tree
Gavotte
Holiday Music ditributed next week!!
Housekeeping: uniform-a-rama. Sorry, this will be over soon, everyone.
Skill of the week
Reflection on International Dinner performance
Review of these pieces this week:
Pythagorean Round
Eli Eli
Compere GuilleriWind and the Amfalula Tree
Gavotte
Holiday Music ditributed next week!!
Housekeeping: uniform-a-rama. Sorry, this will be over soon, everyone.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Week of OCT 13
Assign rows for concert formation this week--4 rows.
Procedure: A's B's and C's arrange in height order within their "letter" section. Form 4 rows from there and assign. They should write their row assigment in agenda.
Observation to report--Young ones are forgetting their A/B/C assignments. Hmmm.....
Compere Guilleri--review French words. Pick up one more click in tempo.
Wind and the Amfalula Tree--round tones. reinforce voiced consonants this week.
Music Alone Shall Live--Eb Major
form: Piano intro/Unison/interlude/2-part once through/interlude/3-part twice through. C's start the round both times. Ending: each part sing "Never to die" again and again until all parts catch up. On the last repetition, C's sing these pitches--Sol, Sol, Sol, Sol; B's sing Fa, Fa, Fa, Mi; A's sing the regular melody, (low)Sol La Ti Do.
Schooldays memorized. Although this is from a Broadway show, carful that intonation doesn't get out of whack.
Stand in that River--review form. Words should be memorized.
Housekeeping: Hand our remaining uniforms. International Dinner reminders
Procedure: A's B's and C's arrange in height order within their "letter" section. Form 4 rows from there and assign. They should write their row assigment in agenda.
Observation to report--Young ones are forgetting their A/B/C assignments. Hmmm.....
Compere Guilleri--review French words. Pick up one more click in tempo.
Wind and the Amfalula Tree--round tones. reinforce voiced consonants this week.
Music Alone Shall Live--Eb Major
form: Piano intro/Unison/interlude/2-part once through/interlude/3-part twice through. C's start the round both times. Ending: each part sing "Never to die" again and again until all parts catch up. On the last repetition, C's sing these pitches--Sol, Sol, Sol, Sol; B's sing Fa, Fa, Fa, Mi; A's sing the regular melody, (low)Sol La Ti Do.
Schooldays memorized. Although this is from a Broadway show, carful that intonation doesn't get out of whack.
Stand in that River--review form. Words should be memorized.
Housekeeping: Hand our remaining uniforms. International Dinner reminders
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Week of OCT 6
Prep for International Dinner:
Training/IMM performing Schooldays, Music Alone Shall Live, and Stand in that River with TCC.
All TR/IMM singers sing the melody on Stand. A few have asked to try the upper harmony and that's fine, but only if they can hold the part absolutely without help.
Work expression on Schooldays. simple choreography for the ending--Jazz hands!!!
Never
let (right hand down, palms out)
me (left hand down, palm out)
go (bring both hands up with the ever-cliche shake)
last chord--"find a friend" and pose. This is a bit free-form ;-) but cute.
Music Alone
reinforce diction--IPA clarification. Just use the top 5 vowels for now A, E, i, O, U (no schwa, etc. yet)
Steve Ortlip's drill: single pitch chant -- for the a sound "How high the sky"; for the E sound "Send them ten men"; for the u sound "Do you moo, too?"; "we see thee flee" Anybody have a drill for O?
Stand in that River--long phrasing. No breathing on the bar line! Memorize the form that appears in the box on p.2
Review French on Compere -- pronunciation guide at this link. add one more phrase.
Run through Wind and Amfalula and Pythagorean if time permits. We need these to be ready for gig Nov 5.
Housekeeping: Collect Schedule forms. Distribute music folders for any new students. Int'l Dinner reminders. Uniforms?
Training/IMM performing Schooldays, Music Alone Shall Live, and Stand in that River with TCC.
All TR/IMM singers sing the melody on Stand. A few have asked to try the upper harmony and that's fine, but only if they can hold the part absolutely without help.
Work expression on Schooldays. simple choreography for the ending--Jazz hands!!!
Never
let (right hand down, palms out)
me (left hand down, palm out)
go (bring both hands up with the ever-cliche shake)
last chord--"find a friend" and pose. This is a bit free-form ;-) but cute.
Music Alone
reinforce diction--IPA clarification. Just use the top 5 vowels for now A, E, i, O, U (no schwa, etc. yet)
Steve Ortlip's drill: single pitch chant -- for the a sound "How high the sky"; for the E sound "Send them ten men"; for the u sound "Do you moo, too?"; "we see thee flee" Anybody have a drill for O?
Stand in that River--long phrasing. No breathing on the bar line! Memorize the form that appears in the box on p.2
Review French on Compere -- pronunciation guide at this link. add one more phrase.
Run through Wind and Amfalula and Pythagorean if time permits. We need these to be ready for gig Nov 5.
Housekeeping: Collect Schedule forms. Distribute music folders for any new students. Int'l Dinner reminders. Uniforms?
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