One-Day Music Composition Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan
Elementary - Middle - High School
2-4 lessons
Students will compose a piece of music based on word games. They will practice and perform the composition with an optional additional accompaniment (self-composed or backtrack) to match the composition topic.
Objectives
Within 2-4 lessons, students will compose a piece of music for voice and speech choir inspired by a play on the words “day”. In the process the student will:
• Explore speech rhythms
• Translate a speech rhythm to notation
• Learn and memorize through practice to write a rhythmic motif and develop a motif
• Learn, review and practice basic compositional techniques such as repetition, sequence and/or fragmentation
• Explore setting words to music
• Practice short fragments on a instrument
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition
• Acquire, review or practice basic staff notation
Concepts
• Melody
• Rhythm
• Motif
• Repetition
• Sequence
• Fragmentation
• Voice parts
• Triads
• Setting words to a rhythm