Blending+Businesses

Ross Thoendel


 * Subject/Grade:** 9th grade band


 * Focus Concepts/Skills:** Blend


 * National Standards:** 2. Play 5. Read/Notate 6. Listen 7. Evaluate


 * Behavioral Learning Objectives**: Students will be able to blend within sections and across the ensemble.


 * Materials:** Joy-Frank Tichelli

1. Students should get into a large circle.
 * Sequence of Activities**:

2. They are told that they each have a business, but in order for it to be successful they have to market it locally, nationally, and internationally. First they must sell their product locally, with the music equivalent being they must be able to blend with the people immediately adjacent to them as they play measures 6-14 of Joy Three person "businesses" can volunteer and compete to see which people are most effectively trying to "market their product" to others.

3. They then must think nationally with their business, which would be trying to match with their entire section. Each section can come up with a particular musical "business plan" which explains their main concepts they are trying to demonstrate. If their is only one instrument in a section, they should listen and find out who has their part, and then go join them.

4. Finally, students must think internationally or globally, which means they have to "sell their product to" people in every section as well as their own. By this point the ensemble should be listening across to each other in a different and fun way.