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STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT - MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Concert Choir-High School School Level
UNIT 1
Time Period: September-December
Description: Students will refine their intermediate sight-reading skills and will work on blending their sound as an ensemble in both a cappella
music as well as with accompaniment.
Elements of
Music
Tone
Concept/Skill
Quality
Posture
Breath support
Vowel
placement
Articulation
Balance/Blend Listening Skills
Pacing
Weeks 1-4:
Voice
Builders 1-7
Weeks 5-15:
Voice
builders 7-9
3 examples
of other high
school choir
recordings
over the
course of 15
weeks
Checks for
Understanding
Correct Placement of
vowel formation
worksheet
Instructional Resources/Tools
Essential Musicianship
Expanda-ball
Small group
Written response to recorded music
discussion on various
recordings of the high
school choirs
Standard
MU:Pr4.3.E.Ia Demonstrate an
understanding of context in a
varied repertoire of music
through prepared and
improvised performances
MU:Pr5.3.E.Ia Develop
strategies to address
expressive challenges in a
varied repertoire of music, and
evaluate their success using
feedback from ensemble peers
and other sources to refine
performances
MU:Re8.1.E.Ia Explain and
support interpretations of the
expressive intent and meaning
of musical works, citing as
evidence the treatment of the
elements of music, contexts,
(when appropriate) the setting
of the text, and personal
research.
STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT - MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Concert Choir-High School School Level
Rhythm
Tempo/Pulse
Patterns
Rests
Ties
Syncopation
The Sight
Singer
Mixed
Voices pg.
34-37, 39
Small group
assessment of an
example of their
choice
Concert Repertoire
Steady Beat
Following
Conductor
Patterns in
4/4, ¾, 2/4,
6/8
Identifying and
defining tempo
markings
Musical Terms Anchor Chart
Independence Sight Reading
In Solfege
The Sight
Singer
Mixed
Voices
pg.26-37
Following the
conductor
Small Group sight
reading
Label concert
repertoire
The Sight Singer Mixed Voices
Conducting Patterns
The Sight Singer Mixed Voices
Concert repertoire
MU:Re8.1.E.IIa Support
interpretations of the
expressive intent and meaning
of musical works citing as
evidence the treatment of the
elements of music, contexts,
(when appropriate) the setting
of text, and personal research.
MU:Re7.2.E.Ia Explain how the
analysis of passages and
understanding the way the
elements of music are
manipulated inform the
response to music.
MU:Pr4.3.E.Ia Demonstrate an
understanding of context in a
varied repertoire of music
through prepared and
improvised performances.
MU:Pr4.2.E.Ia Demonstrate,
using music reading skills
where appropriate, how
compositional devices
employed and theoretical and
structural aspects of musical
works impact and inform
prepared or improvised
performances.
MU:Re7.2.E.Ia Explain how the
analysis of passages and
understanding the way the
elements of music are
manipulated inform the
STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT - MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Concert Choir-High School School Level
Dynamics
Scales
Music Theory
response to music.
MU:Pr4.3.E.Ia Demonstrate an
understanding of context in a
varied repertoire of music
through prepared and
improvised performances.
Symbols
Range
Control
The Sight
Singer
Mixed
Voices pg.
43
Concert repertoire
small group
assessment
Expanda-ball
Major Scales
Minor Scales
Major chords
Minor chords
The Sight
Singer
Mixed
Voices pg.
31
Theory
website
lessons 2123
Build a scale
worksheet using
boomwhackers
http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/22 MU:Re7.2.E.Ia Explain how the
Notation
Music Symbols
Music
Theory
website
lessons 1115
Label concert
repertoire
http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/11 MU:Pr4.3.E.Ia Demonstrate an
Concert repertoire
Boomwhacker instruments
analysis of passages and
understanding the way the
elements of music are
manipulated inform the
response to music.
understanding of context in a
varied repertoire of music
through prepared and
improvised performances.
MU:Re7.2.E.Ia Explain how the
analysis of passages and
understanding the way the
elements of music are
manipulated inform the
response to music.
STOCKBRIDGE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT - MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Concert Choir-High School School Level
21st Century Learning
Critical Thinking: Students will listen to a recording of three different choirs and individually articulate in writing and in words how the choirs were
different and similar.
Communication/Leadership: Students will take turns leading the class in the warm up exercises.
Communication: Students will write program notes for the concerts accurately describing the history and meaning of the concert repertoire.
Creativity/Initiative/Self Direction: Students will create practice goals for one of the pieces of concert repertoire. They will be resposonsible for
sharing in an organized way how they will accomplish their goals.
Interdisciplinary Themes: Students will have an understanding of global awareness by studying the varied repertoire of choral music. Students will
also understand civic literacy in how it relates to the rules and regulations surrounding music creation, production, and distribution.
Concert Checkpoints
Repertoire
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, Kistler
White Winter Hymnal, Billingsley
My Heart is Offered Still to You, Lassus
Skill
Unison sound and blend
Changing meter
A cappella
Accompaniment
4 part harmony
Foreign language
Goal Date
8th week of rehearsals
5th week of rehearsals
10th week of rehearsals
12th week of rehearsals
13th week of rehearsals
8th week of rehearsals