Materials Needed:

Metronome
1 score of Panther in the Sky
Trombone
Trombone Stand

Class: Honor Band Week#7 Date: 05/04/2016

Objectives: Students will perform with beautiful characteristic, normal
articulation, style and dynamics.
Introduction/Focus:
Good morning Honor Band. Today I will rehearse with you on
Panther in the Sky at the beginning. We will be rehearsing with
beautiful characteristic, correct articulation, style and
dynamics.

117.209.Music, (7.3) Creative

Expression. The student
demonstrates musical artistry by
singing or playing an instrument,
alone or in groups, performing a
variety of unison, homophonic, and
polyphonic repertoire. The student
makes music at an appropriate level
of difficulty and performs in a
variety of genres from notation and
by memory. A) Demonstrate, alone
or in groups, characteristic vocal or
instrument timbre; B) Perform
music alone and in groups,
demonstrating appropriate physical
fundamental technique such as hand
position, bowing, embouchure,
articulation, and posture.

Blooms Taxonomy
Remembering
Analyzing
Understanding
Evaluating
Applying
Creating

Procedures:
Rehearsal Frame 1: Warm-Up
Everyone stand up, nice and tall. Set and your there.
Students extend arm.
Breathing exercise, in for four counts, out for four counts.
Set metronome to quarter note equals 95.
Now in for two counts, out for four counts. Do multiple
repetitions.
Have a seat and brass take your mouthpieces out.
Long tones, woodwinds play concert F for four counts, then
brass buzz concert F for four counts.
Brass hum the pitch when the woodwinds play. Make sure
brass players are buzzing in their correct octave. Do this for at
least 4 receptions.
Brass plug your mouthpieces in, everyone play long tones
together now. Do multiple repetitions.
Articulation exercise: During the 4 counts of rest, sing
articulations-Normal articulation, staccato, maracto, firm
release. Also include rhythms that may be in the music.
Rehearsal Frame 2: mm.1-9
Lets start at the beginning. Everyone should see the fp at
measure 3? I want you to hit the note and then come down to p
and dont start to crescendo until beat 3. Crescendo beat 3 to
the downbeat of mm 4.
Demonstrate on horn and/or sing.
In measure 4 I want that played long-short or du-dah.
Demonstrate on horn and/or sing.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions. Address
the length of notes and repeat as needed.
Now let me just have the low brass and low reds at measure 2.
So you all are the only thing different with as moving line at
measure 2. You all are the panther in the sky. It says f, play it
with beautiful tone and firm accents.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions. Address
the length of notes and repeat as needed.

Call them to Set and count them off. Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions as needed.
Now if we look on, mm. 5-9 are pretty much the say exact thing. Let me hear mm. 5-9.
Call them to Set and count them off. Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions as needed.
Now from the beginning going to m.9.
Call them to Set and count them off. Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions as needed.
Rehearsal Frame 3: mm.9-17
At m. 9-17, the style is legato, with the melody in the horns and saxophones and then flutes also join them
later in pick-ups into m.13. Let me hear the melody people there. Everyone else be silent practicing another
part you have coming up.
Call the melody people to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Low Brass and low reeds I want you all to yield and balance to the melody at m.9. Everyone at m.9 to 17
now.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Beginning to m.17, be ready for that transition into the legato style.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Rehearsal Frame 4 : mm.17-23 fermata
The style changes here again at m.17, now play with intensity!
Trumpets let me hear you at m.17. Watch your rhythms, Swearingen changes the rhythm pattern on you. \
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Everyone else but the trumpets, you have a long-short accents and staccato eight note pattern just like at the
beginning.
Let me hear everyone else but the trumpets.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Everyone at m.17 now. When we get to the fermata, memorize the note and look up at me.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Beginning to m.23 now.
Call them to Set and count them off.
Give feedback as needed and do multiple repetitions.
Review and Closure:
Good rehearsal on panther in the Sky! Who can tell me what we did in rehearsal today? Remember all the
things we rehearsed with the style changes in m. 9 and m.17. The balance at m.9, the articulation throughout
all the sections we did today and the dynamics. Now take out The Great Locomotive Chase and give your
attention Mr. Reinhart.
Assessment:

Students will perform mm.1-23 with beautiful characteristic, correct articulation, style and dynamics.