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Intervals: Call and Response

Goal: To hear intervals with social activities.

Out of Tempo

Speaking, singing, playing.

Teacher chooses an interval or students choose an interval.

Beginning

  1. Student sings an interval up and down.
  2. Another student repeats that interval up and down.

Intermediate

  1. A student sings an interval down and up.
  2. Another student repeats that interval down and up.

Advanced

  1. A student sings an interval up.
  2. Another student sings the same interval down.

In Tempo

Beginning

  1. A student sets up a tempo, time signature, major or minor key, rhythm.
  2. A different student chooses an interval using the same time signature.
  3. A different student sings the interval up and down in tempo using the same time signature.

Intermediate

  1. A student sets up a tempo, time signature, major or minor key, rhythm and prompts, “One student sings the lower note of an interval, a different student sings above that note.”
  2. The process continues until all students have sung two notes of an interval above and below.

Advanced

  1. A Student sets up a tempo, time signature, major or minor key, rhythm and prompts, “One student sings the upper note of an interval, a different student sings (interval) below that note.”
  2. The process continues until all students have sung two notes of an interval from above to below.