MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Chorus Madison Junior School Authored by: John Leister Reviewed by: Lee Nittel, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Stacy Snider, Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts Adopted by the Board: January, 2013 Members of the Board of Education: Lisa Ellis, President Patrick Rowe, Vice-President David Arthur Kevin Blair Shade Grahling Linda Gilbert Thomas Haralampoudis James Novotny Superintendent: Dr. Michael Rossi Madison Public Schools 359 Woodland Road, Madison, NJ 07940 www.madisonpublicschools.org

I. OVERVIEW The Chorus in Grades 6, 7 and 8 is open to all students who wish to participate. The primary goal of the Chorus program in grades 6-8 is to enable the student to epand his/her understanding of both the technical and aesthetic aspects of choral music. The broad objectives are: 1. Develop the appreciation of the music of many cultures through the study and singing of music from around the world. 2. Develop Group Rehearsal Techniques so that students understand and appreciate how to function as part of a non-competitive team. 3. Develop a variety of correct stylistic interpretations through the singing of music from many genres. 4. Develop proper individual vocal techniques 5. Develop the students ability to read music II. STUDENT OUTCOMES (Linked to the NJ Core Curriculum Standards) Specific content standards addressed include: 1.1 Creative Process 1.2 History of Arts and Culture 1.3 Performance 1.4 Aesthetic Response and Critique Methodologies The students will demonstrate: 1. A knowledge of music traditions including the historical, social, and cultural influences on the pieces that they study. 2. A knowledge of basic elements of music theory to include vocabulary and key/time signatures 3. The ability to sing solfeggio 4. Proper vocal technique through work in posture, voice registration, articulation, vowel formation and placement, and breathing. 5. Correct behavior for rehearsal and concert settings. 6. A knowledge of various diacritical markings for dynamics, style, tempi, phrasing, and shaping. 7. The ability to sight-read music. 8. An understanding of intonation, balance, and blend in choral performance. 9. Stylistic accuracy in singing a variety of musical styles. 10. Correct practicing and self-correcting techniques. 11. Proper care and maintenance of school folders and music. 12. An understanding of the benefits and enjoyment associated with continued singing in ensembles at the high school, university, and community levels. III. ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS Unit: Vocal Technique A. Posture Through modeling and practice, students will learn and demonstrate good posture while sitting and standing.

B. Breath Support Through eplanation and modeling, students will learn basic breathing techniques using diaphragmatic muscles. C. Basic Vowels Through proper warm-up eercises and modeling, students will demonstrate basic vowel sounds and proper mouth formations. D. Articulation Through eplanation, modeling, and eercises, students will demonstrate the use of consonants in relation to tone production. Unit: Music Theory A. Rhythm Through teacher made rhythm eamples, students will learn to say and clap rhythms demonstrating their understanding of whole, half, quarter, eighth, siteenth, and dotted notes, and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and alla breve meter signatures. B. Basic Notation Through eamples on the blackboard, teacher made handouts, and eamples in choral pieces, students will identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and epression. C. Key Signatures Through the use of classroom posters, teacher handouts, and choral pieces, students will learn to identify key signatures. D. Intervals Through aural training from the piano, students will learn to discern intervals such as the difference between a whole and half step. They will demonstrate this knowledge in their aural performance of choral pieces and sight-reading eamples. E. Triads Through aural training from the piano, students will learn to discern triads such as major, minor, diminished, and augmented. Unit: Sight-Reading Through the use of short, simple eamples in treble and bass clef, students will demonstrate the ability to sing pitches with letter names and to sing pitches using solfeggio syllables. Unit: Rehearsal Technique A. Attendance and Punctuality Through classroom discussion, clearly established classroom rules, and repeated practice, students will demonstrate the importance of regular attendance and punctuality in many lifetime situations. B. Responsibility Through classroom discussion, clearly established classroom guidelines, and repeated practice, students will demonstrate the responsible treatment of each other, the faculty, and all classroom materials. Unit: Non-musical Personal Growth A. Citizenship Through discussion and the activity of performing for others, students will identify the importance of helping others in society. B. Self-esteem Through positive reinforcement by the teacher, students will develop a healthier self-esteem.

Unit: Performance Techniques A. Concert Attire Through discussions, handouts, and observing other ensembles, students will learn how attire can enhance the effectiveness of a performance. B. Behavior Through discussions, handouts, and observing other ensembles, students will demonstrate proper performance behavior on stage and in the audience. In addition, the concept of respect will be discussed with regards to respect for other students and for the faculty. Unit: Singing a Varied Repertoire Of Music Unit: Historical and Cultural Relationships Using a variety of pieces from our choral library: Students will perform and study music representing diverse genres and cultures. Students will sing with epression and technical accuracy a repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 2 and 3 scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory Students will sing music written in 2 and 3 parts. and or well. For each choral piece studied, the teacher and students will identify discuss the historical time period of the piece, the culture in which the piece was written, and the genre of the piece. Through discussion and written assignments, students will identify how similar events, scenes, emotions could be transformed into other works of art. The interrelationships with other disciplines in school will be discussed as Unit: Music Analysis Through listening to live and prerecorded eamples, students will describe music events using appropriate music terminology. Students will utilize terms such as meter, tonality, intervals, chords, and style. Music from different cultures and genres will be demonstrated. Unit: Music Composition Students will compose short melodies to demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance. The use of traditional and nontraditional sound sources will be discussed as part of this process. IV. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE First Marking Period 1. Review rehearsal procedures, behavior, epectations, logistics 2. Review music fundamentals

3. Review care of folders and music 4. Present requirements for Region I Intermediate Chorus auditions 5. Introduce choral warm-up activities 6. Introduce and review solfeggio syllables 7. Begin rehearsal of music for Thanksgiving and/or Holiday assemblies 8. Introduce music and composers from various time periods. 9. Evaluate group and individual performance and behavior 10. Perform at appropriate school functions as needed. 11. Introduce opportunities for attending concerts and/or for singing with other ensembles. Second Marking Period 1. Continue to refine ensemble skills stressing intonation, tone production, articulation, basic vowel sounds, balance, and blend. 2. Continue to development proper vocal warm-up activities. 3. Prepare students for Region I Intermediate Chorus auditions. 4. Introduce concert performance behavior, logistics, and dress epectations. 5. Perform at Thanksgiving and/or Holiday Assemblies. 6. Continue to evaluate ensemble and individual performance and behavior. 7. Perform at school and community events as needed and as possible. Third Marking Period 1. Introduce opportunities to sing in the Morris-Union Jointure Commission Honors Chorus. 2. Introduce new compositions and composers in preparation for the Spring Concerts and Festival. 3. Introduce 8 th Grade students to the opportunities in music at Madison High School. 4. Continue to refine ensemble and individual music fundamentals. 5. Introduce techniques for sight-reading and individual practice. 6. Perform at the March "Music In Our Schools" Concert. 7. Perform at school and community events as needed and as possible. Fourth Marking Period 1. Provide information concerning summer activities in music both in Madison and elsewhere. 2. Continue to refine ensemble and individual music fundamentals. 3. Review concert and festival guidelines for behavior and performance. 4. Continue rehearsal, development, and understanding of music selected for the spring events. 5. Introduce 8 th Grade students to the music to be sung at the Promotion Ceremony. 6. Perform at Spring Concert, Music Festival, Eighth Grade Promotion, Sith Grade Orientation, and other events as agreed upon by the music faculty and administration. 7. Evaluate group and individual performance and behavior. 8. Collect materials for storage, order music and materials for the following year. V. EVALUATION Each student s grade will be based on: 1. Attendance at all scheduled rehearsals and concerts. 2. Student participation, effort and preparedness.

3. Small group vocal tests and quizzes. 4. Homework assignments. Specific grading percentages should be determined by the teacher and distributed to the students and parents in September or when a student first enrolls in the class. VI. RESOURCES Supplementary Materials: Choral music listed on the Resources/ appendi pages Get America Singing...Again! Songbook pub. Hal Leonard John Jacobson's Riser Choreography pub. Hal Leonard Patterns Of Sound V. 1 & 2 pub. Hal Leonard Something New To Sing About pub. G. Schirmer Inc. Songs For Sight Reading pub. Pro Art Pub. Teaching Choral Music pub. MENC Warm Ups And Workouts for The Developing Choir pub. Hal Leonard Piano Staff Paper Black Board Computer and Printer Music Folders with pencils

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre A La Nanita Nana Luboff Adoramus Te Palestrina Adoramus Te Gasparini Al Shlosha D'Varim Naplan Alfred Burt Carols Burt Hol All Around The World Estes Alleluia Bach/Emerson Alleluia Boyce/Kirk Alleluia Porterfield Alleluia Ray Amazing Grace BartheLson Amen Hairston America My Own Gray America Dream Eilers-Bacak American Folk Songs Spevacek American Salute Lojeski Angel Brymer pop Angels Through The Kern Annie Emerson Bdwy Bandstand Boogie Shaw Because You Loved Me Funk Be Kind To Your Parents Rome Be True To Your School Wilson pop Better World, A Besig Big Girls Don't Cry Shaw pop Bless This House Ehret Blowin'In The Wind Dylan pop Boatmen Stomp Gray Book Of Love Lojeski pop Brighten My Soul With Sunshine Eilers Brotherhood Of Man Mac Huff Bdwy Can't Help Lovin' That Man Shaw Canon Carol, The Pachelbel Carol of The Bells Wilhousky Hol Christmas A- Comin' Strommen Hol Christmas Bell Carol West Hol Caroling, Caroling Burt Hol

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre Castle On A Cloud Spevacek Bdwy Charlottown Bryan Christmas Carols Eilers Hol Christmas Madrigal Spevacek Hol Christmas Tide Bourdon Hol Circle Of Life Christopher Bdwy Cold & Fugue Bach/ Foncannon Colors Of The Wind Mac Huff pop Come Let Us Start Hassler A Joyful Song Come To The Fair Martin Cross The Wide Missouri Besig Danny Boy Weatherly Danny Boy Knowles Day By Day Leyden Bdwy Deu Estes Petites Disco Divas Brymer PoP Do You Hear What I Simeone Hol Hear Don't Stop Believin' Gallina Down By The Riverside Eilers Edelweiss Cacavas Bdwy Eight Nights, Eight Lights Emerson Hol Every Time I Feel The Sp. Williamson First Noel Clawson Hol For The Beauty Of The Earth Davis Freedom Geld sa Freedom Is For All Estes From A Distance Gold Pop Gaudeamus Hodie Sleeth Give Me Your Berlin Tired, Your Poor Gloria Alleluia Crocker Go Forth With A Song Albrecht Goodnight My Someone Willson Hakuna, Matata Emerson Bdwy Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah Brownsey Hol

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre Hanukkah Tonight Bacack Hol Harmony Simon/Kaplan Haunting Melody Eileis Hello Dolly Herman Bdwy Hero Brymer pop Hold On Emerson How Ecellent Is Thy Name Knowles I Am But A Small Voice Coates I Am Your Child Snyder I Feel Pretty Bernstein Bdwy I Will Touch The Sky Loughton I Will Wait For You Warnick I Won't Grow Up O'Neill If I Loved You Rodgers Bdwy I'll Be There For Schmutte pop You I'm Gonna Wash Rodgers Bdwy That Man Right Out In these Delightful Pleasant Groves Purcell It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Willson Hol It's My Party Brymer pop Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring Bach Kyrie For Today Shaw Les Miserables Lojeski Bdwy Let Heaven And Nature Althouse Hol Let It Snow! Calm Hol Let There Be Peace On Earth Ades Lion King Brymer Bdwy Little Drummer Boy Simeone Hol Make Them Hear You Funk May Day Carol Zaninelli Milk & Honey Herman Mister Sandman Lojeski Morning Has Broken Stevens Mozart, A Little Spevacek My Sha-La- La Lockers Stuck Lawrence

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre Now Is The Emerson Month of Maying O Come, 0 Come, Johnson Hol Emanuel Of Thee I Sing Aithouse Oliver Medley Leyden Bdwy One Candle Reese One Fine Day Mac Huff pop One Sweet Day Brymer Once Upon A December Strommen pop One Voice Brymer Out Here On My Own Lojeski pop Patriotic Festival Williams Play For Me A Simple Melody Shaw Please Mr. Postman Emerson pop Prayer from Hansel & Gretel Humperdinck Rejoice & Sing Knowles Rhythm Of Life Coleman Road Not Taken Klouse Rockin' Around The Chinn pop Rose, The Nowak pop Rudolph the RNR Marks Hol Scarborough Fair Simon pop Send In the Clowns Sondheim Bdwy Shalom Heiman Shenandoah Kinsman Shenandoah Althouse Sick of the Songs of the Sea Bennett Silent Night Bennett Hol Simple Gifts Copland Simple Gifts Strommen Sincerely Emerson Sing Alleluia Althouse Sing Gloria In El Spevacek Sing Hallelujah Ray Sing W/Jubilation Estes Sities Partyline Lojeski pop Sleigh Ride Anderson Hol Snow Is Falling Schram Hol Solfeggio Mawell Someone Harris

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre Somewhere Out Lojeski pop There Song For You, A North Song of Spring Webb Sound Of Music Rodgers Bdwy Sound of Silence Rodgers pop Sounds of Life Asplunt Stand By Me King pop Stay Tuned! Brymer pop Steppin' Out On Broadway Althouse Bdwy Sunrise, Sunset Harnick Bdwy Supremes Medley Billingsley pop Thanks Be To Thee Nichols That Thing You Do Funk pop That's What Friends Bacharach pop R4 That's What The Music Ca n Do Estes Think Of Me Mac Huff Bdwy This Is My Country Emerson This Land Is Your Land Guthrie Time In A Bottle Croce pop `Tis The Season Eilers `Tis The Simple Things In Life Strid To The Sky Strommen Turn, Turn, Turn Emerson pop Turtle Dove, The Spevacek Varsity Drag Shaw Velvet Shoes Thompson Water Is Wide, The Zaninelli We Go Together Lojeski Bdwy We Go Together Lojeski Bdwy We Wish U A Merry Wilson Hol Christmas Weep 0 Mine Eyes Bennett Wells Fargo Wagon Bdwy Were You There? Trad. West Side Story Stickles Bdwy Whale of a Tale Artman What I Did 4 Love Kerr Bdwy What Is Christmas 4 Fogderud What Will The World Be Like Coates Which Is The Arne Properest Day 2 Where'er You Walk Handel

Appendi for MJS Chorus Curriculum Choral Music Titles as of August 2000 Title Comp/Arr SSA SAB 2 pt 3 pt SATB TTBB Genre Why Do Fools Fall in Love Brymer pop Wind Beneath My Wings Emerson pop Winter Wonderland Emerson Hol Winter's On It's Way Carter Hol Wintersong Snyder Hol