Lesson Topic: ___________Learning Dulaman______________ Grade level:____9-12____

Length of lesson: __7 minutes___

Desired Results

State Content Standard(s):

● List the number and text of the standard(s): ​(LR 4.A.1) Audiate and speak or sing
music with a variety of voicings in multiple clefs, major and minor keys, and various
meters using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Central Focus: Essential Question(s):

Students will understand: ● What is the relationship between

● Students will be able to understand
the difference between a simple and
compound meter.
● The students will also be able to
understand the difference between
cut time and common time.
individuals' ability to audiate and their
level of musicianship?
● What processes best develop the skill of
audiation and enhance individuals’
music literacy?

Student objectives (outcomes):

Students will be able to:

● The students will be able to understand the difference between simple and compound
meters by doing different rhythmic exercises that emphasize the difference between
two meters.
● The students will be able to sing 5 measures of the Irish piece, ​Dúlamán by David
Mooney, in cut time and 12/8 meter with 90% rhythmic accuracy and 100% note
accuracy.

Assessment Evidence
Performance Task(s):
● To evaluate the student the instructor
should ask the students what the
difference is between double and
triple meter.
● The instructor should also have the
students run through the material
they have been working on to make
sure they understand the piece
● Have the students create a short
excerpt in simple and compound
meter, in order to fully assess their
understanding

Learning Plan

Learning Activities:
Opening activity
● Remind students to have good posture
● Have the students take a couple of deep breaths in and out just to make the students
start thinking about breath. This activity can also help with calming the students down
if they have a lot of energy
● Teacher will model this exercise with the students. Have the students breathe in and
then exhale in pulses using simple meter and then transition into compound meter.
● This exercise will help the student start to feel the difference between simple and
compound meter
Procedures
1. Ask the students to listen to the instructor clap 2 beats each beat equals a half note.
2. Teacher will clarify cut-time beat pattern by clapping four quarter in 4/4 time and then
keep the same beat but conduct in cut time
3. Students will clap beat pattern back
4. Ask the students to listen to the instructor again still doing the 2 beat pattern, but now
start singing the eighth note on “do” .
5. Have the students echo this exercise
6. Teacher will model the compound meter by three claps per dotted quarter note. This is
to prepare students for measures 4 and 5
 7. Explain to the students that in the previous two exercises they were alternating between
simple and compound meter
8. Define compound and simple meter so the students understand exactly what the
difference is between the two meters
9. Teacher will model the beginning notes of Dulaman on “do” while conducting in cut
time
10. Have the students listen to the instructor sing one measure on “do” and then have them
echo the instructor
11. Explain to the student that measures 4 and 5 of the music is spoken not sung and to just
look at the Tenor line.
12. Model measures 4 and 5 on “ta” for the students and have them repeat
13. Ask the students at what measure number simple meter into compound meter is in the
piece.
14. Have the students sing the first three measures with their instructor on “do” and
measures four and five on “ta”
15. Teacher will translate the text for the students
16. Teacher will model the text for the students
17. Students will say the text with the teacher in measure 1-5
Closure
● Was it clarified in the lesson the difference between simple and compound meter?
● Are the five measures that were worked on fluid and constantly accurate in both
rhythmic and note accuracy?

Resources and Materials:

● The score for ​Dúlamán
● The instructor should provide a recording of Dúlamán by a choir so the students can
hear the meter change