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Vibrant Music TeachingGroup Workshop Plan: Debussy Do Overview

Quick Look Lesson Plan

What You Need

TIME EST. ACTIVITY NOTES:

10 min Guess the prélude

25 min Clair de Lune Ensemble parts 1& 2

10 min History Hoarder

5 min JUICE BREAK

25 min Clair de Lune Ensemble parts 3 & 4

10 min Romantic Road

10 min Impressionist drawings

This lesson plan is designed to suit a group of 4-10 students at a variety of levels. (Please note that if you have more than 6 students you will need an extra copy of Beethoven’s Bucket Dunk.)

These activities will work best for students from 5 to 12 years old, although many older students will be happy to get involved too.

The time estimates given are very approximate and many activities may last longer than the listed times. This is a good thing! It’s much better to have too many activities than not enough. Feel free to skip over activities and extend others depending on how your students engage and/or whether they are getting restless.

This workshop is 90 minutes long. If you are doing a shorter workshop, feel free to cut out activi-ties as needed. The activities are all related and well-sequenced, but one does not necessarily have to lead to the next.

• Sheet music for the Clair de Lune Ensemble (in this PDF)• Préludes 1-10 images (in this PDF)• Préludes 1-10 audio (YouTube/Spotify/personal collection)• History Hoarder• Romantic Road• Tuned percussion: Boomwhackers, bells or glockenspiels• At least one piano/keyboard• Paper & colouring pencils/crayons

https://vibrantmusicteaching.com/history-hoarder/

https://vibrantmusicteaching.com/romantic-road


Vibrant Music TeachingStep-by-step plansGroup Workshop Plan: Debussy Do

GUESS THE PRÉLUDEEstimated Time: 10 minutes

GUESS THE PRÉLUDE• Give each student a of the Préludes 1-10 images (page 5 of this PDF) or share one between the group.• Play Debussy’s Préludes 1-10 in order, discuss the music and ask your students to guess which of the images matches the piece. • Have them cross the images off or cover with counters as you go.

CLAIR DE LUNE ENSEMBLEEstimated Time: 25 minutes

RHYTHM PRACTICE PART 1• Chant the words for part 1 of the Clair de Lune Ensemble. Repeat each phrase several times sp your students can practice saying it with you.• Repeat, one phrase at a time, this time clapping the rhythm while you chant.• Sing each phrase for your students while clapping and repeat several times, asking them to sing along with you.• Sing the whole of part 1 together. Switch up your actions from clapping to tapping to acting out the words.


COMBINING PARTS 1 & 2• Split your students into two teams. • Ask one team to sing part 1 and the other to sing part 2. • Help them stay together by pointing to the team that should be singing and using a stop sig-nal to the other team if necessary.• Have the teams swap parts once they understand how it fits together.

MELODY PRACTICE SEPARATE PARTS• Give each student an instrument. Depending on what you have available you might have a few at pianos/keyboards, some sharing a set of deskbells, others with 1 boomwhacker each, and another on a glockenspiel. If you do not have enough instruments to go around the other stu-dents can be the choir. • Count in and try to play part 1 together. Every student should sing the words to help them stay in time and you may like to give younger or less experienced students the coloured nota-tion and keyboard overlay.• Practice part 1 several times until the students can play in unison.• Repeat this for part 2.



COMBINING PARTS 1 & 2• Assign some students part 1 and others part 2. Part 1 should be given to those sitting on the treble side of the piano/keyboard and those playing higher instruments such as bells. Part 2 should be given to those sitting on the bass side of the piano/keyboard (although it still starts in the treble clef) and those playing low instruments such as Boomwhackers.• Practice combining the parts. If the students are having trouble playing together get every-one to try singing their part instead of playing until that is successful, then try again with the instruments.

HISTORY HOARDEREstimated Time: 10 minutes

You can find full instructions on how to play History Hoarder in the game PDF here. If you have younger students attending your workshop, it may be a good idea to pair them up with an older student helper.

Break for juice, water or snacks. Play music by Debussy in the background.

CLAIR DE LUNE ENSEMBLEEstimated Time: 25 minutes




https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vmt-library/May+/VMT_History_Hoarder.pdf

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vmt-library/May+/VMT_Beethoven's_Bucket_Dunk.pdf






MELODY PRACTICE SEPARATE PARTS• Give each student an instrument. Depending on what you have available you might have a few at pianos/keyboards, some sharing a set of deskbells, others with 1 boomwhacker each, and another on a glockenspiel. If you do not have enough instruments to go around the other stu-dents can be the choir. • Count in and try to play part 3 together. Every student should sing the words to help them stay in time and you may like to give younger or less experienced students the coloured nota-tion and keyboard overlay.• Practice part 1 several times until the students can play in unison.• Repeat this for part 4.

COMBINING PARTS 3 & 4• Assign some students part 3 and others part 4. Part 3 should be given to those sitting on the treble side of the piano/keyboard and those playing higher instruments such as bells. Part 4 should be given to those sitting on the bass side of the piano/keyboard (although it still starts in the treble clef) and those playing low instruments such as Boomwhackers.• Practice combining the parts. If the students are having trouble playing together get every-one to try singing their part instead of playing until that is successful, then try again with the instruments.• If your students are doing well you can switch some of the part 3 students to part 1, and may-be even some of the part 4 students to part 2 for the full ensemble.

ROMANTIC ROADEstimated Time: 10 minutes

You can find full instructions on how to play Romantic Road in the PDF here. This game can be played with students at any level.

IMPRESSIONIST PRELUDESEstimated Time: 10 minutes

Show your students some paintings from the impressionist period and discuss the style. Ask your students to choose on of the préludes from the start of the workshop (show them the pictures to help them remember) and create their own impressionist style artwork to represent it. Put on the préludes in the background while they draw.

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Vibrant Music TeachingGroup Workshop Plan: Debussy Do Préludes 1-10 images

Footsteps in the Snow

Sails/Veils

The Submerged Cathedral

“The sounds and fragrances swirl through the evening air”

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

Dancers of Delphi

What the West Wind Has Seen

Interrupted Serenade

The Wind in the Plain

The Hills of Anacapri

This score is included to give you, the teacher, an idea of how the ensemble might fit together.


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