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MUED 376: Choral Music, Materials & Techniques

MIDTERM EXAM

Suggested Due Date: October 26, 2017 - midnight

NAME: Alvina Klopot DATE___

Part I: From O% to 100% in 10 Rehearsals of 15 Minutes:

One Suggested Sequence of Rehearsal Threads

Directions:

Take the piece you are doing for VMRC and design a full lesson
sequence as indicated below, based on a fifteen-minute rehearsal.

Modify each class as needed from this template. Add or delete
activities and chunks as needed.

Do not do a Direct Instruction Script for this assignment, only
outline the activities and chunking that will complete each rehearsal
thread.

Be creative and include lots of kinesthetic and learning experiences.

Please spend no more than 40 minutes on this part of the exam

Please feel free to work with others on this exam! Share answers,
help each other, share ideas, strategies and definitions!

Rehearsal 1 Hook and introduction to the piece (rote introduction, and

rote to note in the music.)

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome Good Morning VMRC! The piece we will be working on

today is: In the Bleak Midwinter. My rehearsal threads today are: Getting
started on learning the notes and rhythm

Chunk 2: Sing first 8 measures on solfege- soprano (4 measures at a time)

Chunk 3: Sing first 8 measures on solfege- bass

Chunk 4: Sing first 8 measures on solfege- tenor

Chunk 5: Sing first 8 measures on solfege- alto

Transition statement: Now lets put this all together

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: Putting it all together

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Chunk 1: Sop and Bass sing

Chunk 2: add tenor

Chunk 3: add alto

Chunk 4: clean anything needing cleaning

Transition statement: Lets add text

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: Text

Chunk 1: model text and vowels

Chunk 2: students chant back

Transition statement: Lets add that to the melody and harmony

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: words + music

Chunk 1: choir sings on words

Chunk 2: clean anything needing to be cleaned

Transition statement: Great Job! Thank you for working so hard!

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: Today we learned the main A section of the song.

Chunk 2: The melodic ideas here will come back, so keep this melody and
harmony in the back of your mind

Rehearsal 2 Section A - mapping melody, harmony and text

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: Learn notes and harmony on the rest of
the piece

Chunk 2: Review A section

Chunk 3: Clean

Chunk 4: Sing again

Transition statement: Lets move on to the 4th line

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: 4th Line (similar to A section)

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Chunk 1: let students sight read on text

Chunk 2: again

Chunk 3: point out differences and similarities to previous material

Transition statement: Lets dig a little deeper and go through the individual parts

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: CLEAN

Chunk 1: model sop

Chunk 2: sop sings

Chunk 3: layer in alto

Chunk 4: sing again

Transition statement: Moving on to tenors and basses

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: CLEAN

Chunk 1: model bass

Chunk 2: bass sings

Chunk 3: layer in tenor

Chunk 4: sing again

Chunk 5: combine all

Transition statement: Wonderful focus today

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: Today we review the A section and the repeat of the A section with a
small variation

Chunk 2: Thank you for working hard

Rehearsal 3 - Review Section A and repeat it in all the sections that are the

same throughout the piece

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: to review what we learned last time and
continue learning new material
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Chunk 2: sing through A section (1st 2 lines)

Chunk 3: Again

Chunk 4: ask for breathing in correct places

Transition statement: Moving on to the A1 section

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: A1

Chunk 1: sing

Chunk 2: again

Chunk 3: ask for breathing

Chunk 4: sing again

Transition statement: Lets move on to new material

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: Head start on B

Chunk 1: model alto on solfege

Chunk 2: choir echos

Chunk 3: again

Chunk 4: add text

Transition statement: Next harmony part

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: Tenor

Chunk 1: Model tenor on solfege

Chunk 2: choir echos

Chunk 3: again

Chunk 4: add text

Transition statement: Great work!

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: Reviewed all A sections and started harmony parts on B section

Chunk 2: Awesome focus

Rehearsal 4 - B Sections - melody, harmony and text

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Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: Finish B, put together with A
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Chunk 2: Alto B section

Chunk 3: Tenor B section

Chunk 4: sing together

Transition statement: Lets move to the outer parts

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: Outer Parts

Chunk 1: Model sop

Chunk 2: sop sings

Chunk 3: Model Bass

Chunk 4: Bass sings

Transition statement:Lets put it all together

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: B section in entirety

Chunk 1: choir sings together on solfege

Chunk 2: choir sings together on text

Chunk 3: clean

Chunk 4: clean

Transition statement: Lets combine with A section now

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: Combine A

Chunk 1: choir sings through

Chunk 2: Positive feedback

Chunk 3: again, but with improved accuracy

Chunk 4: Positive feedback

Transition statement: Wonderful work!

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

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Chunk 1: we finished learning B section and started putting it all together

Chunk 2: Positive feedback

Rehearsal 5 Review B for corrections, link A and B Sections, singing long

Chunks, review for meaning and expression

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: work on the whole, and breathing

Chunk 2: sing through

Chunk 3: tell where to breathe, where not to breathe

Chunk 4: sing again

Transition statement: Great Work! Lets move on to the next verse

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: Anacrusis in Verse two

Chunk 1: explain anacrusis and how V2 starts

Chunk 2: model last line of V1 and transition

Chunk 3: choir sings, again

Chunk 4: clean it again

Transition statement: Now lets do V2 in its entirety

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: V2

Chunk 1: point out pick up later on, special attention to conductor

Chunk 2: sing from transition into V2, keep going

Chunk 3: positive feedback

Chunk 4: again

Transition statement: Now lets add the layer of correct breaths in V2

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: V2 breathing

Chunk 1: explain where to breathe/not breathe

Chunk 2: again

Chunk 3: fix vowels (if needed)

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Chunk 4: Run V1 and V2

Transition statement: Positive Feedback

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: Today we worked on transitioning from V1 to V2 and then V2

Chunk 2: Thank you for your hard work

Rehearsal 6 - Whats different or new?! Sections C & D & perfecting tone

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: review and new words

Chunk 2: explain introduction, lets practice coming in

Chunk 3: listen to introduction, cue

Chunk 4: Lets do that one more time

Transition statement: Now lets move onto doing everything weve learned so
far

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2: Review

Chunk 1: sing through

Chunk 2: remind of breaths and diction

Chunk 3: sing again

Chunk 4: ask for phrasing, sing again

Transition statement: wonderful work, we can now move on to the new words

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: V3

Chunk 1: talk through transition from V2

Chunk 2: practice line 4 of V2 into V3

Chunk 3: again, ask choir to watch gesture

Chunk 4: again

Transition statement: Now we can do V3 in its entirety

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4: V3 text

Chunk 1: run V3 with transition from V2

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Chunk 2: fix diction, word emphasis

Chunk 3: breathing

Chunk 4: sing again

Transition statement: Now we know V3!

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: Wonderful work reviewing V1 and 2 and learning V3

Chunk 2: Thank you for the hard work friends!

Rehearsal 7 - Review whats different (Sections C & D) or new and link to A

and B sections, if time, sing all the way through

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: put everything together

Chunk 2: Start with intro and sing through piece

Chunk 3: acknowledge positives and negatives

Chunk 4: work out 1st negative

Transition statement: Lets see what else we can improve

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2:

Chunk 1: run again

Chunk 2: improve

Chunk 3: run

Chunk 4: improve

Transition statement: Thank you for your focus and hard work on polishing up
the piece

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: We put everything together, and polished up some technical things

such as breath and diction

Chunk 2: Thank you for your focus

Rehearsal 8 - Sing all the way through, improving and perfecting tone and

adding reminders about meaning

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Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: perfect and meaning

Chunk 2: explain that perfecting and polishing a piece is very important and
takes a lot of energy and focus

Chunk 3: run the piece

Chunk 4: check transitions

Transition statement: lets keep working hard

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 2:

Chunk 1: run again

Chunk 2: fix diction issues

Chunk 3: run again

Chunk 4: fix breathing

Transition statement: Wonderful focused work

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 3: Dynamics and expression

Chunk 1: explain desired dynamics and reasons for choosing them in V1

Chunk 2: encourage choir to sing V1 expressively and watching the conductor

Chunk 3: positive feedback

Transition statement: Lets add similar ideas to the other verses

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 4:

Chunk 1: explain dynamic differences from V1

Chunk 2: sing V2 and 3

Chunk 3: lets solidify that, please watch me even more

Chunk 4: positive feedback

Transition statement: you all are such hard focused workers!

Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

Chunk 1: We ran the piece as a whole and perfected it even more, and added
dynamics and expression
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Chunk 2: Thank you for working hard!

Rehearsal 9 Buzzwords to deepen expression, tone, and sophistication

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to 23 in your music

folder. My rehearsal threads today are: buzzwords and expression

Chunk 2: define buzzwords

Chunk 3: give examples

Chunk 4: at this point more than 40 minutes of this exam have gone by.

Transition statement:

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Rehearsal 10 - Run Fix Run

Time: (X/X/15) Activity 1: Introduction and Rehearsal Threads

Chunk 1: Welcome: Good Morning VMRC! Please turn to _______________

in your music folder. My rehearsal threads today are:

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Time: (X/X/15) Activity X: Learning Summary

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Any extra rehearsals?

Digging deeper, working on tone, breathing, meaning, expression, sophistication

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Part II: PHILOSOPHY STATEMENTS LIST

Directions: Pick 10 out of the 20 philosophy statements below and define them
in 1-3 sentences. Please spend no longer than 20 minutes on this portion of the
exam.

Philosophy Statement Definition

97% of what you teach is who you are. Teacher effectiveness is everything (Mayhew
Article)

Be the Music.

Controlling the environment that in turn controls

us.
Creating the culture that in turn creates the Creating a safe environment based on threads
community.
Cultivate FLOW and the culture will GROW!

Curricularize the social and deliver highly Social and academic combined = highly
effective music curricula. effective teaching
Everything is related to everything. TRANSFER everything to everything

If it is meant to be, it is up to me.

JAHEES? SHREDM!

Learning occurs at the intersection of the
academic and the social.
Meet your students where they ARE, not where
you think they should be.
Positives come and go, negatives accumulate.
The Concert is the Celebration of What Has
Already Happened.
What is your agenda?
must connect socially with students to cultivate
good environment and learning
Be honest to yourself about student progress and
where they are in terms of learning.
Humans put more emphasis on negatives, so 1
negative to 8 positives
The concert is just the reflection of hard work
that has already taken place

When you know better, you do better. Cant do better if you don't know what is wrong-
self assessment!
Whereever you go, there you are.

Who am I to judge?
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Who claps for you? Who unconditionally supports you and

appreciates the small things you do
Who do you want to be when you grow up?

You dont know what you dont know!