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Rehearsal 1/5: 7 minutes: Focus on Listening: A Section: Notes, (Sept. 14 and

21) rhythms, tone, text

Chunk 1: Goals (.30/7:00)

1s. Good Morning VMRC!

2v. Good Morning!

1s. Im Kelsey Wessels and Im so happy to see you this morning

1d. Please open your music booklets to page ____ to our song O Little Town of Bethlehem

1a. My goals today are to review and learn the A section of this piece with notes, rhythms and
hopefully returning to text. While we are doing this lets also remember to sing with our best
tone so we are creating even more beautiful music.

Chunk 2: Teach Section A (8 measures) Soprano: (1:30/2.00/7:00)

1d. To review from last week may I please have everyone be a soprano and echo me.
1a. Sing first 8 measures on noo.
2p. Choir echos
Only repeat if it is needed!
3sra. Lovely. Your tone is beautiful and open. (Change as needed)

1d. Sopranos only, please sing this section on text, remembering to use our tall vowels and
good breath support.
2p. Sopranos sing
3nra. Great (change if needed)

TRANSITION

1d. Now lets look at the bass part, you may recognize it from what we were working on last
week!

Chunk 3: Teach Section A (8 measures) Bass: (1:30/3.30/7:00)

1d. Everyone EXCEPT sopranos, please echo me (Sings first 8 measures)
1a. Sing the bass part in solfege.
2p. Choir echos
1a. Sing again
2p. Choir echos

1d. Now please echo me on text

1a. Sing on text
2p. Choir echos on text
1d. Sopranos, please sing soprano, and everyone else sing bass
2p. Choir sings as instructed.
3nsra: Great job! (I really liked how)

1d. Now lets hear just the sopranos and basses together
2p. Sopranos and basses sing
3sra. Very well done!

TRANSITION:

1a. Now that we have the outer parts, lets fill in the middle with some inner harmonies.

Chunk 4: Teach Section A (8 measures) Tenor: (1:00/4.30/7:00)

1a. I am going to sing the tenor part 2x, once on solfege and once on text.
1d. Please just listen
1a. Sing on solfege
2nv: Choir listens
1a. Sing on text
2nv: Choir listens

1d. Tenors only, please sing with Tracey and me on text

2p. Tenors sings on text
3srd. (Fix anything that didnt go well, or just do it again) OR
3sra. You learned that quickly!

Chunk 5: Combine in Section A (8 measures) Soprano, Tenor, Bass: (1:00/5.30/7:00)

1a. I think you are doing so well that we should put all of these parts together, Tenors I will sing
with you!
1d. Sopranos, Tenors and Basses, lets sing on text!
2p. Choir Sings

TRANSITION:
1s. Altos! We did not forget you!
Chunk 6: Teach Section A (8 measures) Alto: (:30/6:00/7:00)
1a. Your part is a little tricky, but I bet you can sing it on text with Tracey
playing it with you!
1d. But first please listen to me sing it through once on solfege and then join me on text.
1a: Sing on solfege
2p. Altos sing!
3sra/srd: (Correct if needed)

TRANSITION!
3sra. Great job altos!

Chunk 7: Combine in Section A (8 measures) Tutti: (:30/6:30/7:00)

1d. Everyone! Please sing your own part on noo.
(is it ok if we make mistakes? YES. Here we go!)
2p. Choir sing
1d. Please sing on text
2p. Choir sing
1d. Please sing on text WITHOUT Tracey
2p. Choir sing

Chunk 8: Learning summary(:30/7:00/7:00)

3sra. Well done today in this song! We are now about 40% of the way through this piece and it
is sounding lovely!

1d. Lets give our attention to our next conductor: ______________________-