Texture: Patterning
Goal: To introduce textures of sound.
Out of Tempo
Use movement
Beginning
- Teacher combines x number of staccato sounds with a different number of legato sounds.
- Students repeat.
Intermediate
- Teacher combines x number of staccato and legato sounds and repeats the combination.
- Students repeat.
Advanced
- Teacher combines patterns of alternating staccato and legato sounds.
- Students repeat.
In Tempo
Sung
Beginning
- Teacher sings one note staccato, repeating it in two-four, three-four, or four-four meter using quarter note rhythms.
- Students repeat.
- Teacher sings one note legato repeating it in two-four, three-four, or four-four meter using quarter note rhythms.
- Students repeat.
Intermediate
- Teacher sings one note staccato, then the same note legato repeating it in two-four, three-four, or four-four meter using quarter note rhythms.
- Students repeat.
- Teacher sings one note legato, then the same note staccato repeating it in two-four, three-four, or four-four meter using quarter note rhythms.
- Students repeat.
Advanced
- Teacher sings 2, 3, or 4 notes alternating staccato and legato repeating it in two-four, three-four, or four-four meter using quarter note rhythms.
- Students repeat.
More Advanced
- Teacher sings 2, 3, or 4 notes alternating staccato and legato with varying rhythms of the beat, division of the beat, and subdivision of the beat in the given time signature.