(Orff Process) Music Lesson Plan

Focus: concept and skills to emphasize

Rhythm Melody Grade Level(s): ___4th_____ Title: _Baroque Composers_______
Singing Listening
Form Harmony
Focus: Melody, Rhythm, Musical Play, Improvisation, Literacy,
Moving Creating
Tone Color Movement Play, Part Work, Timbre, Pitch, Ear Training, Decoding,
Expressive Qualities Mirroring, Imitation, Ensemble UTP, or Melodic Composition,
Playing Instruments Instrumental Technique, Meter, Harmony.
Materials/Equipment: Objectives: Virginia Standards of Learning in Music
Composers PowerPoint 4.7 The student will explore historical and cultural aspects of
Pencils music by
Pre/post assessment 1. describing four music compositions from four different
periods of music history and
identifying the composers;
2. placing musical examples into categories of style;
National Music Standard(s) 3. listening to and describing music from a variety of world
Achieved: cultures; and
 Singing, alone and with others, a varied 4. examining how music from popular culture reflects the past
repertoire of music
 Performing on instruments, alone and with and influences the present.
others, a varied repertoire of music 4.8 The student will demonstrate audience and participant
 Improvising melodies, variations and
accompaniments
behaviors appropriate for the purposes
 Composing and arranging music within and settings in which music is performed.
specific guidelines
 Reading and notating music
 Listening to, analyzing, and describing Core SOLS Correlation:
music
 Evaluating music and music performances
Social studies.
 Understanding relationships between music,
the other arts and disciplines outside the Anticipatory Set: Lesson and Objectives: Recall, Relate, Hook
arts
 Understanding music in relation to history Raise your hand if you were born in the 1600s!
and culture TTW state the Objectives and Activities for the Day:
Today we are going to be learning about the Baroque era of music.
Bloom’s: Apply,Analyze,Create
Knowledge Analysis
Comprehension Synthesis Process: Prepare, Present, Practice and Perform
Application Evaluation Step-by Step Process presented in the Orff Method,
C
Differentiated Learning: Dalcroze, Kodaly,
Auditory Visual/Spatial PREPARE
Kinesthetic Logical/Math
Verbal/Linguistic Musical
1. TTW ask students to observe a photo of London in the 1600s and
Naturalistic Interpersonal describe what they see and share what musical jobs they think
Intrapersonal existed in the 1600s.
Technology Teacher Used:
Smart Board Lesson
Power Point 2.TTW ask students to observe a photo of London today and describe
Music Software
what they see and share what musical jobs they think exist today.
Video Streaming

Curriculum Correlation
Reading and Language Arts
Math
Social Studies, Science 3. TSW complete a pre-assessment on Baroque composers.
Oral Language, Geography

4. TSW use PowerPoint and read
each bullet point about the
classical era vocabulary and
what is happening in the world
at the time.
done. The teacher will state WHAT the student or class did to meet
instructional goals. What skill did the student or class achieve and
HOW did they meet or not meet the expectations and WHY.
12. Review: Today We Learned:
I Can….
I Know that….

5. TTW read the story of Bach 13. Evaluation: Informal Observation or Formal Evaluation
and play his toccata and fugue in Performance
D minor while the students
listen.

6. TTW ask questions about

Bach and reinforce what was in
the story and composition.

7. TTW read the story of

Handel and play his Hallelujah
chorus while the students listen.

8. TTW ask questions about

Handel and reinforce what was
in the story and composition.

PRACTICE
(Share Pair, Cooperative
Learning, Games, Ensemble
Practice)

9. Independent Practice:
Singing, Playing of Instruments,
Group Dance/ Patterned
Movement, Game, Flash Cards,
Manipulatives for hands on
practice, Written Opportunity,
Group project
PERFORM
10. Teacher will monitor to
insure learning is happening
through Informal Observation.
Formal Structured
Experience/Assessment
GROUP or SOLO or
Performance.

11. TTW provides feedback with

suggestions for improvement as
well as praise for a job well