Zachary Gates WW-P Concert Choir Lesson Plan 11/25/13 Objective: By the end of a 15 minute lesson, concert choir

members will be able to sing Hodie Christus with better intonation, accurate expression, and taller vowels, by performing through the piece and isolating and fixing certain places where these issues come up. Procedure: 1. Greet concert choir and tell them to take out Hodie Christus 2. Start the piece and plan to stop on measure 10 and fix the resonance on the [i] vowel. Tell them to pull an imaginary rope on it. 3. Start the piece again, and model/gesture/vocalize a need for taller [a] vowels, while also looking for a proper resonance/vowel choice on measure 10. 4. If correct, continue on to measure 22 where piece goes into predominantly . Plan on fixing [e] vowels. Have them use their hands as a snowplow coming from their face to place the [e] vowel. 5. Fixing tuning on measure 27 with having them close their eyes, balancing, and gaining an awareness of their pitch roles in the chord. 6. Fix expression and lightness at measure 30 by having students toss an imaginary ball from hand to hand while bouncing on their toes. 7. Draw attention to the importance of honoring the singing lines that are moving while others are not. Ask why it is important, and why parts of the choir should make way for the other vocal parts that have moving lines. 8. Continue on measure 30 while singing through the piece, where only people with big moving parts sing forte, while all others sing piano until it is their turn. 9. Explain for them to not make it that extreme, but to honor those parts. Assessment: Teacher will observe if students have correct placement of tone and vowel by observing their mouth-shapes, as well as aurally observing for tall singing vowels. Teacher will observe if students are listening to the other parts of the choir by ability to tune and ability to make way for moving parts of the music. Music literacy in seeing in the music when this happens will also assess their musical literacy in being able to interpret a musical score on a more critical level. Teacher will assess understanding through observation and discussion of the importance of having moving parts come out.