Tongue Twisters Music Composition Lesson Plan

This lesson is aimed at the general music or chorus class.
Students will compose a piece of music by generating tongue twister lyrics based on digraphs, trigraphs, alliteration and assonance following a step-by-step guide to set it to rhythm and then to a melody.
Objectives
Within 2-4 lessons students will prepare a tongue twister song. In the process the students will:
• Acquire knowledge of the different ways in which catchy tongue twister lyrics may be generated.
• Scan the tongue twister sentence or phrase for strong syllables.
• Set to a beat and rhythm.
• Plan the structure of a composition.
• Analyze the lyrics for melodic suggestion/word painting.
• Learn, review and practice basic compositional techniques such as repetition, sequence and/or ornamentation.
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition.
• Acquire, review or practice melodic and rhythmic staff notation.
Included: Graphic organizer to generate digraphs, trigraphs, alliterations and assonance with examples.