Warm-Up & Rehearsal 

Erica Unroe 
2/10/2020 
 
Objective: ​The Students will 
● Warm-up 
● Rehearse the beginning of ​Elegy for a Young American ​to Box 3 
● Rehearse ​Midway March  
 
Procedure: 
● Warm-Up 
○ Tension and release exercise 
■ Start on Bb major chord 
● A 
● Ab 
● G 
● F# 
● F 
○ Entering and Exiting exercise 
■ Play F (Or G) chord 
● Get really big, then really soft. HOLD at really soft. 
● You have to leave the texture to breathe, and then come 
back in, right? Should I HEAR those entrances? 
● Fade to nothing, sneak back in from nothing. No accents to 
interrupt the sound. 
○ Exercise but with SHUSHing. 
● Elegy 
○ Beg. to Box 1 
■ Clarinets at beginning 
● Write Hairpins in first 4 meas. 
● And breath-marks after every phrase- slight pause. 
■ Saxes add in- blend into their sound 
■ Talk about hairpins, what the breath should sound like.  
● Everyone blow through a hairpin 
● Everyone else does it from beg. Clars and Altos play 
○ Box 1 to 2 
■ Run 
■ This part sounds like a lot, and you may feel like you’re wrong, but 
be solid in your counting and I PROMISE it’s right.  
■ BOP IT. 
● There should be movement on EVERY BEAT until the last 
beat before 2 
■ BOP IT AGAIN 
 ■ Run regularly 
○ Box 2 to 3 
■ This section is ONE BIG HAIR PIN. Where’s the peak of this hair pin? 
● Box 2!!! 
○ Same exercise as warm-up, but with YELLING 
■ Fade to nothing at the end! 
■ TUBAS 2 before 3 
● Midway 
○ Work BACKWARD from end! 
■ Last measure! 
● ACCENTS, Not too long! 
■ TWO measures from the end! 
● FORTE PIANO! 
● ACCENTS on the quarter notes! 
● Rearticulate before last measure 
■ FOUR from the end. 
● Higher winds, at 99. Accent and rhythm 
● The melody is in there somewhere, who has it? 
○ BRING IT OUT but also listen for it.  
■ Put an ff under that, friends. 
■ FIVE from the end 
● Forte piano’s: Can I hear you? 
● Accented dotted quarters rise up from the texture. 
■ SIX from the end 
● Woodwind trills: Really short and explosive- remember 
what I compared them to last time? 
● Add brass in- what role do you play in this little metaphor?  
○ Accented and strong! 
■ BOX 95! 
● Beat 4 people- accented, blow through those eighths 
● Melody people- watch the a of beat 4 
○ Put some weight on the first half of 96 
● Trilly people- Are you the most important thing? At first, yes. 
○ Flute and oboe catch on to the melody, clarinets 
hold till 4 
■ Measure before Box 95 
● Accents and crescendo! 
■ Rehearse melody and accomp. At 87 (if time) 
 
Assessment: ​The final performances/runs of the pieces will serve as an assessment 
for learning.