Parker Sterling

5 November 2018
LAMP/Int. strings

(Long Term) Goal: Establish ability to play, write and count rhythm with accuracy as well play with
proper technique and style of a variety of pieces

(Short Term) Objectives: Students will understand what different note values are called and how
they fit into one another, what different notation parts are available for the test, and what the rules for
dictation are.

Materials Needed: Basic rhythms

Basic Scales and Two-Part Inventions for Strings by J. Frederick
Muller and Harold W. Rusch
Scrap paper for students
Baton

State Standards Addressed:

Standard 4 Listening and responding to a varied repertoire of music by audiating music
9-12 (LR.4.12.1) Audiate and recognize age appropriate pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and known
melodies from movement, gesture, traditional, or non-traditional notation.
9-12 (LR.4.12.2) Audiate and accurately sing and perform pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and
melodies, including indicated expressive elements, in both major and minor modes and simple and
compound meters on sight.
9-12 (LR.4.12.3) Audiate all the elements of music in a given excerpt or piece and perform it on sight
in a musical and culturally authentic way.
Standard 10: Creating a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated and aurally perceived
music.
9-12 (Cr.10.12.1) Notate the rhythm, melody, harmonic structure, and form of three and four chord
songs that are aurally perceived and/or audiated using traditional music notation, including common
diacritical and expressive markings.
Procedure:
1) Students will tune their instrument with a drone in order to calibrate the instrument and perform at a
high level throughout the rehearsal
a) When in doubt tune flat
i) String will not pop
ii) People naturally tune high
iii) It is easier to tune from below
b) Make your sound disappear
c) Send the students who understand the musical notations and rhythms into the hallway to work
on repertoire
2) Review names for notes and what they look like
a) PIZZA analogy (whole pizza, half a pizza, quarter of a pizza, eighth of a pizza)
b) Quarter note
i) Play four quarter notes
c) Half note
i) Play two half notes
 d) Whole note
i) Play one whole note
e) Eighth note
i) Play 8 eighth notes
f) Sixteenth note
i) Play 16 16th notes
g) They all take up the same amount of time
h) Students will pick two different categories and play them over top
i) How many _____ were played per ______?
i) Create tree on the board HAVE EACH STUDENT CONTRIBUTE WHEN WRITING THE
DIAGRAM
j) Make pyramid again but upside down
i) Draw pizza with it
3) Students will re-clarify what 2 beat rhythms we can use for dictation and what they sound like
a) Simple
i) Quarter + Quarter
ii) Half note
iii) Quarter + eighth note + Eighths
b) Compound
i) Dotted Quarter
ii) Quarter + eighth note
iii) 3 eighth notes
4) Students will practice 2 bar phrases of dictation
a) Steps
i) Count/listen
(1) How many were there?
(2) What combinations of patterns could fit in there?
ii) Shorthand
(1) Which notes came fast? Slow?
iii) Compare/confirm
(1) Check whether what you wrote sounds like what I do
5) So how does that connect with the document you were given?
a) It shows the three parts that a dotted note is divided in
b) It shows the two parts an undotted note is divided in

Follow Up
Students will continue dictating rhythms, emphasizing the ones they have trouble in
Students will utilize the cheat sheet in the future to understand how notes are divided and what note
gets the beat

Assessment
Students will have notated the rhythms that we went over in class that the teacher will overlook
Students will write their results on the board

Accommodations for Diverse Learners

Students with additional learning requirements
Dysgraphia
Have student use non-traditional notation that is accessible for them and can be determined
between him and the teacher or utilize verbal communication privately.

Differed ability
Reflection of the process and approach of dictation as well as consistent repetition within the
classroom, both verbally, hand written and also a walkthrough of the process.