LESSON PLAN: Symphonic Band
TEACHER: Miss OConnell
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to:
o Perform warm ups and all music with characteristic sounds
o Perform all music with accurate notes and rhythms
MATERIALS:
Lesson Plan
Harmony Director
Scores: Fires of Bandai
iPad with Tonal Energy
Instrument (for modeling)
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o c.2.A. perform independently with accurate intonation and rhythm,
demonstrating fundamental skills and basic performance techniques
o c.2.B. perform expressively from notation
o c.2.C. demonstrate appropriate small- and large-ensemble performance
techniques
o c.6.B evaluate the quality and effectiveness of personal performances
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o c.2.B. perform expressively incorporating appropriate stylistic qualities
o c.3.C interpret music symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and
articulations when performing.
TEKS
SEQUENCE:
Warm up:
o Everyday:
Concert F for 8 counts, rest for four
1a, b, c, and d
Manipulate the rhythm
o Eighth notes: repeated notes get firmer articulations
Lip slurs, p. 6/7
Ww option 1
Brass option 4
Music:
o 5-13 Quarter-eighth note-half note people:
Firm articulation
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Definition of the notes and rhythms-no muddiness
Model
Play-just those people
Apply this same style at ms. 37 and 61
5-13 Melody:
If you cant hear the whole note/half note melody, youre too loud
5-13 everybody
Balance
Listen for the melody
Firm articulations in the ostinato pattern
Beginning eight note chords M. 1 and 3:
Play your first note and hold it
Can you hear the tuba?
Play it as written
Multiple correct repetitions
Trumpets, control your embouchure. Have it set before you
play, and think about what the note feels like.
M. 3
Hold it-listen for the tuba
Play it as written
Play beginning to 13
13-21
Trombones, Euphoniums, and clarinets, let me hear you
Yall are the countermelody, so your sound needs to fit in
with the melody
Add in trumpet, horn, and flute
Yall are the melody voices
Everybodys in
Make sure the melody and counter melody voices are
heard! Balance to them
21-29 New melody
Saxes, trumpets start at 21, then flutes and clarinets come in at 23
If you have ascending quarter notes, start a little softer, then grow
into the next measure!
Write in a crescendo at those 2 measures. Start at mf, then
grow to F at 25
Same thing at 27.
Let me hear non-melody people:
Horns, trombone, euphonium, tuba at 21
Remember, repeated notes get firm articulations
o Model Tenor Sax part
Everybody
29-37
Let me hear whole note people
Write mf on your part
Balance to the tuba
o 37-53
o 53-61
Ill give you each note
When you have half notes in m. 34 and 36, make them
defined. Mark it with defined
Play in context with just those people
Horns, when you have those ascending quarter notes, really
bring them out-write forte on your part. The Saxes will be
playing with you there.
Saxes, flutes, and clarinets-let me hear you
Youre the melody, so play a little louder here-write forte
on your part
Everybody play
Same as beginning, except some new people have the melody.
Play it
A bit of a different flavor here
Let me hear eighth note-quarter people
Aggressive
o Model 3 measures and 1 note
o Students demonstrate
If you play a half note on beat 2 in m. 54 and 56, let me hear you
Fp crescendo
Multiple correct repetitions
Everybody play
o 61-69
Same as beginning
Play
o 69-end
Play your first note and hold it
Balance
Next note in m. 70
Play them as written
Just those two measures
Play whole thing
o Play the entire piece!
