Texture: Arithmetic

Beginning

1. Teacher claps two beats staccato.
2. Students repeat.
3. Teacher claps two beats legato.
4. Students repeat.
5. Teacher claps two beats two beats staccato then two beats legato.
6. Students repeat.

Intermediate

1. Teacher claps two beats staccato.
2. Students add one beat.
3. Teacher claps three beats legato.
4. Students add one beat.
5. Teacher claps four beats, two staccato, two legato.
6. Students add one beat.

Advanced

1. Teacher claps two beats legato then two beats staccato.
2. Students repeat.

Beginning

1. Teacher claps four beats staccato.
2. Students repeat.
3. Teacher claps three beats legato.
4. Students repeat.
5. Teacher claps two beats staccato, then two beats legato.
6. Students repeat.

Intermediate

1. Teacher claps four beats staccato.
2. Students subtract one beat.
3. Teacher claps three beats legato.
4. Students subtract one beat.
5. Teacher claps two staccato.
6. Students subtract one beat.

Advanced

1. Teacher claps four Legato and four beats staccato.
2. Students repeat remove one beat from each.

Beginning

1. Teacher claps four beats staccato.
2. Teacher prompts students, “Two measure phrase.”
3. Students clap staccato four beats x two measures.
4. Teacher claps four beats legato.
5. Teacher prompts students, “Four measure phrase.”
6. Students clap legato four beats x four measures.

Intermediate

1. Teacher claps four beats legato.
2. Teacher prompts students, “Make a two measure phrase.”
3. Students clap legato four beats x two measures.
4. Teacher claps four beats staccato.
5. Teacher prompts students, “Make a four measure phrase.”
6. Students clap legato four beats x four measures.

Advanced

1. Teacher claps a combination of staccato and legato.
2. Teacher prompts students, “Make a two measure phrase.”
3. Students do so.

Beginning

1. Teacher claps four beats legato.
2. Teacher claps two divisions of beat per each of four beats staccato.
3. Students clap four beats legato.
4. Students clap two divisions of beat per each of four beats staccato.

Intermediate

1. Teacher claps four beats legato.
2. Teacher claps staccato two divisions of beat per each of four beats.
3. Students clap four beats legato.
4. Students clap staccato two divisions of beat per each of four beats with a different dynamic.

Advanced

1. Teacher claps four beats staccato.
2. Teacher prompts, “Divide each beat legato, in two."

The same Out of Tempo exercises are performed In Tempo.

The teacher sets up a tempo, time signature, and tonality, instructing the students to:

1. Clap the beats in the textures instructed while singing the beats of the given time signature in the same texture as the claps.
2. Clap the beats in the textures as instructed while singing different rhythms in the same textures as the claps.
3. Sing the beats in the textures instructed while clapping the beats in the same textures.
4. Sing the beats in the textures instructed while clapping different rhythms in the same textures as the claps.
5. Vary the textures between the claps and the singing so that they are not the same.