MUED 376: Choral Music, Materials & Techniques (M2 & T)

Direct Instruction: Scripting Practice Sheet

Write out your script below. Practice as a group!

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Rehearsal 1/5: 7 minutes: Focus on Listening: A Section: Notes, (Sept. 14 and 21)

rhythms, tone, text

Chunk 1: Goals (.30/7:00)

1s. Good Morning VMRC!

2v. Good Morning!

1s. Im Kayla Centaure and I realized that last week I didnt tell you where I
was from! Im from Chesapeake but I grew up in Florida. Im so
happy to see everyone today!

1d. Please open your music booklets to page 34 to our song Ding Dong
Merrily on High

1a. My goals today are to review all the A sections of this piece with melody
& harmony, rhythms and text. We will also be focusing on our
breathing and having a good listening ear while singing.

Chunk 2: Teach Section A (8 measures) Soprano: (1:30/2.00/7:00)

1d. Everyone be a soprano and echo me, we already went over this part in our first
rehearsal so lets go ahead and jump into text.
1a. Sing first 8 measures on text.
2p. Choir echoes
1d. Lets do that again
2p. Choir echoes
3sra. I love your tone there everyone, if you notice the first four measures and the second
four measures repeat. That will be true for every section! How great is that!

TRANSITION

1d. Lets now review the bass part and start adding harmonies!

Chunk 3: Teach Section A (8 measures) Bass: (1:30/3.30/7:00)

1d. Everyone EXCEPT sopranos, please echo me

1a. Sing the bass part in solfege or neutral syllables.
2p. Choir echoes
1a. Again please without me on text.
2p. Choir echos

1d. Sopranos, please sing soprano, and everyone else sing bass.
2p. Choir sings.
3nsra: Great job!

1d. Now lets hear just the sopranos and basses together
2p. Sopranos and basses sing
 3sra. Very well done! We have a strong harmony. Remember, Bases, that you are the
foundation of the choir.

TRANSITION:

1a. Now that we have the outer parts in place lets go ahead and learn the inner parts
starting with tenor.

Chunk 4: Teach Section A (8 measures) Tenor: (1:00/4.30/7:00)

1a. I am going to sing the tenor part 2x on solfege.

1d. Please just listen
1a. Sing on solfege
2nv: Choir listens
1d. Lets listen to that again.
1a. Sing on solfege again
2nv: Choir listens

1d. Tenors only, please sing on solfege or a neutral syllable

2p. Tenors sings on solfege
1d. Now please sing through on text.
2p. Tenors sing on text.

3srd. (Fix anything that didnt go well, or just do it again) OR

3sra. You learned that quickly! I enjoyed your tone clarity!

Chunk 5: Combine in Section A (8 measures) Soprano, Tenor, Bass: (1:00/5.30/7:00)

1d. Lets now have the soprano, tenor and bass parts all sing the first 8 measures on
text! Altos please be looking at your part and singing in your head.
2p. Choir Sings

TRANSITION:
1s. Altos! We did not forget you!

Chunk 6: Teach Section A (8 measures) Alto: (:30/6:00/7:00)

1d. Your part has one difference in the rhythm than everyone else so please listen to me
sing it through once on solfege and once on text.
1a. Sings on solfege.
2nv. Choir listens.
1a. Sings on text.
1d. Altos please join me on text all the way through measure 8!
2p. Altos sing on text
3sra/srd: (Correct/repeat if needed)

TRANSITION!
3sra. Great job altos! I really liked your vowels!

Chunk 7: Combine in Section A (8 measures) Tutti: (:30/6:30/7:00)

1d. Everyone! Please start the piece together
2p. Choir sing
1d. Please sing on text
2p. Choir sing

Chunk 8: Learning summary(:30/7:00/7:00)

3sra. Well done today with our piece! We are now about 55% of the way through this piece
and it is sounding lovely with great vocal space so far!

1d. Lets give our attention to our next conductor: ______________________-