Thomas LaRoccaMUE 4332Secondary Methods IProfessor Pattishall

Long Term Lesson Plan for “Overture for Winds” by Charles Carter

Objectives:

Students will perform “Overture for Winds” with proper tone, technique, and musicality.Students will perform as an ensemble with clarity, balance, and musically communicate to an audience.

Process:

-Staccato vs. Accent and breath-stop vs. tongue-stop articulationsStaccato scales, accented scales, play scales with various grouping of staccato and accent

-Motivic devicesPlay scales using rhythm of first two bars

-FormHave sections stand when they play the melody, form worksheet, listening maps

-Balance (especially 8 before K to the end)Play choral style, encouraging students to listen and working to balance the chords, slowly working them up to tempo

-Thinner vs. thicker texturesBalance issues as textures thin, how a melody must be play with a 3 instrument accompaniment vs. a 10 instrument accompaniment

-mp-fffRelative difference, when do dynamics work to enhance the line?, when are they more effectual?

-melody in octaves throughout the workWork on intonation issues, isolate melody, play slowly

-crescendo and decrescendoIdentify when must happen quickly, identify when effective to do an exponential crescendo

-allargando and ritardandoWatching the conductor feeling the pulse as an ensemble, listening across ensemble

-What is percussion doing? No parts in score.

Brief Bio: After serving in the United States Army in World War II, Charles Carter attended the Ohio State University, the Eastman School of Music, and Florida State University. He taught low brassinstruments and was arranger for the Ohio State University Marching Band. Later, he went to Florida State University as an arranger for the bands as well as a professor of theory and harmony. Carter has many published works to his credit, including over thirty compositions for wind band.

-The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music, Vol. 1 William H. Rehrig, Integrity Press, 1991

Evaluation:

Teacher observationVocabulary worksheetListening maps