Joey Villanueva

MUSI 4307
Advanced Music Concepts: Choral Portion
October 4, 2016

Rehearsal Plan
Objective:
Students will be able to sight-sing an excerpt for the melody of “Chester” by
William Billings on solfege

National Standards Addressed at This Rehearsal

Singing alone and with others a varied repertoire of music (1)
Reading and Notating Music (5)

I. Aural Warm-Up (4 Minutes)

A. Sing a D Major Scale in order to Tonicize the Key.
1. Make sure to emphasize the use of hand signs.
2. If students are having trouble with hand signs, give them a
quick review of the shapes of the hand for each syllable)
B. Move to Solfege Ladder Exercise
1. Ask students to watch as you point the various solfege syllables
and to sing the syllables you point at
2. Make sure to include certain syllables that are in the Melody
including:
a) Do to low Sol (m. 3)
b) Re – Sol – Do – Fa (m. 6 – 7)
3. Make sure that the intervals stay scalar and only jump intervals
singing a scalar patter before
a) Ex. Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Mi – Re – Do – Fa – Do
4. Watch Clock and make the most out of your time
II. Sight Singing the Melody from “Chester” by William Billings (6 minutes,
Transcribed Excerpt is attached and in alternate key from original for range)
A. Sequence of Sight Singing
1. Ask Students to look over the example and identify the key and
“Do”
a) Try using hints like: “Which key has two sharps?” or
“You could say this key likes to walk the “line”?” or “How do we
identify sharp keys?” or “What is the sharp closest to the time
signature and what syllable is that?”
2. Ask Students to identify the time signature
a) Try using hints like: “What would it mean if you just
saw this (draw a “4/4”)?”
b) Ask them “What do the top and bottom numbers
mean?”
3. Ask Students to count the rhythm while tapping there leg
 a) Try to address any rhythm problems like the dotted
quarter figure in m. 5 and the eighth notes in m. 6
b) Repeat if nessasary
4. Play an D Major Scale in order to tonicize the key again
5. Sing slowly on solfege while students tap their leg
a) If time allows, try chanting, not singing, the solfege on
correct rhythms first.
b) Keep a nice steady and moderate tempo
c) Make they are all signing through the piece
d) Address any interval problems and repeat if time allows