Week #

Warm ups

Movement/
Focus/Other

Week 1

Week 2

"Pizza Pizza"
improvisation game

Week 4

Week #

Add B-A-Bay warm up

Warm ups

B-A-Bay introduction to
inversions: walk the
inversions later in the
week

Movement/
Focus/Other

Lesson 6
New: dotted notes

Lesson 7
New:
dotted and tied notes

Rhythm Reading

Sight Reading/
Harmony

Conduct with certain

warm ups: Perceived Walk the scales
meter

Lesson 4 #1-3 (eighth, Lesson 5

Rhythm Reading quarter, half )
listen, clap, write counts New: tied notes

Sight Reading/
Harmony

Week 3

Major Scale,
Major Scale, scale in
Add Melodic minor Add
3rds, Goose warm up, I- Harmonic minor
I-IV-I-V7-I progression,
scale, scale in 3rd, I- goose warm up
V7-I progression
V7-I progression

Lesson 4 # 4-8
F major
Introduce Home and
Away sounds

Lesson 5
D
major
Before class starts,
find I and V in today's
example

Lesson 6
Neighbor tones
still writing I and V
sing bass line under
meldoy

Lesson 7
D Major
Repeats/1st & 2nd
endings
sing
bass lines

Add harmony while

singing the melody

I play first time, not

second time

I play first time, not

second time

Canon: do the intervals

imply the harmony we
assigned?

Week 5

Week 6

Add Zah-oo warm up

(ascending scale,
descending stop to
create V7 chord,
resolve)

Add "Hey Ho Nobody

for chest voice.
Add Do -re-mi, re mi fa, mi Home"
Add natural minor.
fa sol.
Which minor does the
new warm up use?

Diminution and
Augmentation of warm clap and walk the beat.
meter
ups: levels of tactus and Perceived
(compound)
perceived meter

Week 7

Week 8

Add Do to Re is a
Major Second

quick change game:

Guess that song
auditory cue tells them to (hand sign game)
change dynamic level

Lesson 8

Lesson 9
New: 3/4 and 2/4 time
signatures

Lesson 8
F major
Thirds
sing bass lines

Lesson 9
New: melodies not starting Lesson 10
on Do E flat, G, C
New: octaves,
dynamics in sight reading sing bass lines
patterns in music

Lesson 10
New:

Lesson 11
New: syncopation

Lesson 11
New: fourths
sing chordal
harmonies

Week #

Warm ups

Week 9

Sight Reading/
Harmony

Week 11

Week 12

Do to Re in canon
analyze the chords
we make

Movement/
Focus/Other

Rhythm Reading

Week 10

Improvisation and
recompositions of
melodies in our
motives

Guess that song

(hand sign game)
Lesson 12
syncopation, tied
notes, eighth notes,
single eighth rests

Lesson 12: Fifths

sing chordal
harmonies

Lesson 13:
syncopation
coda

Lesson 12:
"Where Go the
Boats"
Analyze harmonies
sing harmonic
progressions with
melody

Lesson 13:
Dynamics
sing chordal
harmonies

Lesson 14:
intervals of a 7th
sing chordal
harmonies

Canon

Show them what "I" and

"V" look like
Literature

critical listening

Sight-read with
harmonic reduction

Sing with harmonic

Sing a cappella, infer
reduction. Mark I and harmonies, check with
V chords
piano

Find measures with I

and V outlined in the
melody or parts in both Perceived meter
pieces

Read other people's

parts while listening for
how it fits with your part

Continue to work on
inferring harmonies
while singing

Literature

critical listening

Mark the phrases in

the music

Discuss motives

Talk about what

phrases actually are

Listen to the Hallelujah

Chorus and identify
motives
Listen to a new piece,
identify the motive

How does what you hear

conect with what you see
on the page? How did
the composer create this
mood with the music?

Form of the piece

Literature

critical listening

Reflect on your
performance

Meaning of the piece

Introduce periodic
structure in
conjuction with
sight singing

Listen to our
performance of
the concert.
Reflect on what
you hear versus
your perception of
the performance