Emily Singer

Class: 7th/8th Grade Band (7:50-8:30) Date: 4/19/18

Unit: Musicianship

Essential Question: How does knowledge of historical and cultural contexts affect the way a
musician performs a piece of music?

Materials: instruments, music, pencils, recordings, lyrics, folk story

The Lost Lady Found

TIME TASKS QUESTIONS

7:50 WARM-UP
1. Students will tune
-What’s the difference between
2. Vocabulary Review on board: marcato, accents, an accent and a marcato?

staccatos, slurs
-What’s the difference between a
3. Play 4 accents on concert Bb major
marcato and a staccato?
4. Play 4 marcatos on concert Bb major

5. Play 4 staccatos on concert Bb Major

6. Play Lost Lady 1-49

8:00 Lost Lady Found Folk Story -This folk song is a celebration
1. Read Folk Song Story from program notes

2. Show lyrics on board

3. Sing the lost lady folk song with lyrics with the staccato
style

4. Sing the lost lady folk song with lyrics with the legato
section

5. Show students the field recording

8:10 Lost Lady Rehearsal

1. Tell them that Flute (M.50) will be solo

2. Tell Bells at M.66: Play on Marimba, smooth and -What does to the fore mean?

connected
(given direct attention)

3. M.18 “tut”

4. M.82: “to the fore”

5. M. 82: Alto, Tenor sax, horn vs. LB, BariSax, BassCl

6. M. 98: Trumpets play on 2 and 3 then at M. 112 Flutes

take over and play on 2 and 3

7. M. 94: Very heavy: putting something down very heavy

8:15 Horkstow Grange Folk Story -How would singing this help us
1. Read Folk Song Story from separate page
play it better?
2. Hand out lyrics to Horkstow Grange and read them
aloud

3. Sing Horkstow Grange

Emily Singer

TIME TASKS QUESTIONS

8:25 Horkstow Grange Rehearsal

1. Trumpet M. 21 will be a solo

2. Play through Horkstow Grange

3. M.37: Bringing out the “wrong note” in tenor sax and

trombone part.

4. Explain the story of the wrong note: while recording this

folk song one of the singers sang the wrong note and he
left it in there.

5. Have clarinet 1,2, flutes, trumpet 1 play their concert Bb.

Then add tenor sax and trombone to hear clash. Have
everyone play the chord listening for the wrong note.

6. Play though Horkstow Grange

Field Recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbwtc1Frhng&t=2s

Horkstow Grange (President's Own) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tliNE42X1A

The Lost Lady Found (President's Own):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKhEzVJQdxM

The Lost Lady Found Lyrics:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1mpFWzCwNZEFNhv3IPAeE9om28yd8k5rGtxrfZoZYaGk/edit?usp=sharing

Horkstow Grange Lyrics:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1o9Y5Qnbu0eQZ9_ix_a5_NdDpyqPUUHLJOZ0XI0M6ut8/edit?usp=sharing

"'Horkstow Grange' (The Miser and His Man-a local tragedy)" was sung to Grainger by
George Gouldthorpe, and tells a somewhat ambiguous story of a local happening.
Grainger wrote in his manuscript: "John Bowlin' was a foreman at a farm at Horkstow,
and John Steeleye Span was waggoner under him. They fell out, and J. S. Span made
these verses." Often, these particularly local songs would be written as parodies of
other folksongs, in much the way that Woody Guthrie, for example, wrote a great deal of
his material. Even if not immortalized by this particular song, the name of Steeleye Span
lives on! (Folk Rock historians take note).
 Emily Singer

Class: 7th/8th Grade Band (7:50-8:30)

Date: 4/27/18

Unit: Ensemble Technique

Essential Question: How does the ensemble’s response to conducting cues and gestures
affect the quality of a musical performance?

Materials: instruments, music, pencils, recordings

The Lost Lady Found and Horkstow Grange

TIME TASKS QUESTIONS

7:50 WARM-UP
1. Students will tune

2. Students will play a set of 3 quarter note triplets on each

note of the concert Bb major scale while watching the -Why is it important to watch the
conductor changing tempos.
conductor? (Especially in this
3. Students will play a set of 3 quarter note triplets on each piece)
note of the concert Bb major scale while watching the
conductor change the dynamics.

8:00 Horkstow Grange

1. M.10 Phrasing: watch conductor for phrasing

2. M.26-end: watching for tempo

3. Review: M.37: Bringing out the “wrong note” in tenor sax -Why is there a wrong note in
and trombone part.
here?

4. M.37: Bringing out the “wrong note” in tenor sax and

trombone part.

5. Explain the story of the wrong note: while recording this

folk song one of the singers sang the wrong note and he
left it in there.

6. Have clarinet 1,2, flutes, trumpet 1 play their concert Bb.

Then add tenor sax and trombone to hear clash. Have
everyone play the chord listening for the wrong note.

7. M. 31, 33 Pick-up Eighth Note (have the band count)

-what beat are your eighth notes
8. M. 10, M.34 Eight notes on beat 3
on?
9. Play though Horkstow Grange

8:15 Lost Lady Found

1. Play through Lost Lady

2. M.82: “to the fore”

3. M. 82: Alto, Tenor sax, horn vs. LB, BariSax, BassCl

4. M. 98: Trumpets play on 2 and 3 then at M. 112 Flutes

take over and play on 2 and 3

5. M. 94: Very heavy: putting something down very heavy

6. Play through Lost Lady

8:23 Articulation Quiz: Students will complete an articulation quiz

where they identify and define, marcatos, accents, slurs, and
staccatos.