Drake Middleton

Rock Creek High School

1st Rehearsal with me

9/28/2022

Mustang Chorale (8:20am-9:45am):

**Ice Breaker:

W^: Me

- Mum,mum,mum (ascending scale)

- EE, Eh, Ah, Oh, Ooooo (descending scale)
- Ingram stretches with Altos going low and Tenors falling from Falsetto into “chest voice”
- Zah (1,5,3,8)

Tech: Solfege Chord Building (using function chorale and ways for me to manipulate the chords)

**Little transition activity – high five someone, or compliment someone?

Lit:

- Hebrew Review (maybe Janie takes the lead with notes?)

o Review the ending with notes and rhythms
- Emerald Stream (spices)
o Phrases (use Suzie stretcher)
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o Breathing (use Herbert)
o Consonants/Shadow Vowels
 Demonstrating exactly what I’m wanting with the consonants
 K, shadow vowels, accenting, “make the notes ‘dance’ like Ingram.”
 Accent the two measures right before m.63
o Eventually A cappella

Sectionals:

- Music Down in my Soul

o Beginning by rote (m.2 – m.13)
 Speak the rhythm (with conviction)
 “I hear music in the air, I hear music in the air. There must be a God
somewhere.”
 Then teach each part by rote
 (Sop, Mez, Alto)
 (If time, keep moving on to pg 4-5)
 Could talk about the background of spirituals and maybe even background on
this piece.
 - Hebrew (quick review)

- Emeral Stream (spice check)

- Turn the world around

- Maybe Untraveled Worlds

- Music down
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Exit ticket to reflect on anything that they learned, or anything that they liked about the class or
feedback about how they did, how the ensemble did, and maybe how I did as a facilitator of the
instruction.