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"How is it that music can, without words,
evoke our laughter, our tears, our highest aspiration?"

-Jane Swan


Lesson Plan for Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band for Thursday November 13, 2006

Wind Ensemble:

Objective: Clean sections of concert songs

Procedure:
Warm-up: #9
-play once/2 nd time balance and bring out moving lines
-tune
-play last chord, sing

Suite of Old American Dances:
Mvt. 1:
-m50-53
-m130-136
-m175-182

Mvt. 2:
-beginning to m22
-m43-53

Mvt. 3:
-m135-159

Mvt. 4:
-m89-110

Sleigh Ride:
-m103-118

Dance of the Comedians:
-beginning to m45

Assessment:
Were we able to clean the sections? Was the balance better?

 

Symphony Band:

Objective: Clean sections of concert songs

Procedure:
Warm-up:
-Bb whole notes
-balance/tune

Caravan:
-beginning to E

Kilimanjaro:
-m30-62
-balance perc parts
-m54
-entrances
-balance 3 rd voice

Sea Songs:
-run through
-balance

On a Southern Hymnsong:
-beginning to 62
-m62-78

Assessment:

Were we able to balance the percussion parts in Kilimanjaro? Did we fix entrances? Did we fix overall balance? Did we clean the sections we were working on?

 

   
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