Ensemble Rehearsal Plan

Title of the Piece: St. Nick at Night

Conductor: McKenzie Sterner
Ensemble: Indian Hill Chorus
Composer/Arranger: Sally K. Albrecht
Grade of the Piece: 4-6th

Learning Goals
What Learners will
Be able to to do (behavioral)
Sing with beautiful tone and color appropriate for legato classical repertoire.
Manipulative the phrase and shape of the melody.
Sing in two and three part harmony.

Understand (cognitive)
Interpret appropriate phrase shape.
Understand the role of solfege in sight singing.
Experiential
Prepare and perform the piece for the winter concert on December 6th.

Technical Skills (intonation, posture, breath, balance, phonation, bowing for strings, sticking
for percussion, diction for singers)

Musical Concepts (melody, rhythm, harmony, form, timbre, texture)

Empowering Musicianship(historical perspective, stylistic integrity, musical artistry)

Process

Partner
Ss will sing warm-ups in cannon with the accompaniment if the song combine with some of the
melodies. T will upload songs to google classrooms that have similar musical elements with St.
Nick at Night. (Pachelbels Canon, Old Saint Nick, and this compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFG3l-ErKWw)

m.1-4 Treble I + m. 1-4 Treble II.-----4m. in cannon and 2 m. in cannon

Present
Ss sight reading Treble I line on solfege with melody and bass accompaniment. Tas and Tis
independently and then as a group. Have solfege and notes measure by measure. ONce the
whole melody is solid sing through enter song with sight reading descant optional.
Personalize
Have Ss identify the important phrases and target words. Once theyve had a chance to
think-pair-share conduct as a group in cut time. Then have Ss come up and be the teacher
conducting the whole choir, their movements should give the choir an idea of what the target
phrases and words are.

Perform
Concert December 6th
Assessment
Formative
Rehearsal Strategies followed by edited warmups and activities
Summative
Performance
Integrative
Rehearsal Notes