Detailed Lesson Plan in MAPEH

Date: May 2, 2023 Section: Upper Level

Topic: Opera Composers in the Romantic Era Time: 1hour

I. Learning Objectives
A. Content Standard
The learner demonstrates understanding of characteristic features of vocal music of the
Romantic Period.
B. Performance Standard
The learner sings and performs themes of selected song.
C. Learning Competencies
The learner listens perceptively to selected art songs and excerpts of opera.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Vocal Music of the Romantic Period (1820-1910)
Reference: Power Up with MAPEH 9 – Jude B. Roldan, et al.
Physical Education, Health and Music – Lorna R. Lopez, et al.
Horizons Music and Arts Appreciation for Young Filipinos – Raul Sunico
Grade 9 Learner's Material for Music and Arts – Department of Education PH
History of Music – Hugh M. Miller
Music: An Appreciation – Roger Kamien, et al.
Materials: Laptop, Power point, Speaker, Cut-outs visual aids

III. Learning Activity (15 minutes)

A. Preliminary Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Classroom Management
B. Review
Teachers says: Okay, let’s review the prominent genres of Opera in the Romantic Period
Teacher asks: Who can name one of the four prominent genres of the Romantic era?
C. Motivation
Students will listen to the excerpt of Flower Duet while playing Saxophone.
IV. Lesson Proper
Opera Composers of the Romantic Era
1. Franz Schubert – an Austrian composer known for being the master of the Romantic Lied or
art song. His major work is Ave Maria.
2. Georges Bizet – a French composer known for his opera comique Carmen – a novel about
Gypsies and smugglers. It became the best-known French Opera because of its memorable
melodies, brilliant orchestration and realistic evocations of Spanish life.
3. Giacomo Puccini – an Italian composer of operas who relates his works through “realism”
or “naturalism”. His famous works are La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot and Madame Butterfly.
He used the orchestra to reinforce the vocal melody and to suggest atmosphere.
4. Gioachino Rossini – an Italian composer of comic opera who developed a continuous
succession/n of orchestral accompanied recitatives, solo arias, duets, ensembles and
choruses. His inexhaustible flow of melody with snappy rhythms, clear phrase and well-
shaped structure.
5. Giuseppe Verdi – an Italian composer of human drama in opera with German emphasis on
romanticized nature and mythological symbolism. His operas contain chorus that were
politically inflammatory. He had become a patriotic symbol. His librettists adapted works by
authors like Victor Hugo and Shakespeare.
6. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky – a Russian composer best known for the ballet music. His notable
works are Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
His Russian art songs were more melodic in nature and owed less to the folk idioms and
rustic harmonies favored by the Mighty Handful (also known as the Russian Five
composers)
7. Richard Wagner – a German composer of music dramas. The function of his music was to
serve the ends of dramatic expression in stage. Gesamtkunsterk – a German term of total art
work of poetry, scenic design, staging, action and music working together. His famous
works are The Ring, and Tristan and Isolde.
8. Jules Massenet – a French opera composer, whose music is admired for its lyricism,
sensuality, occasional sentimentality, and theatrical aptness. He uses leitmotifs to identify
and characterize the protagonists and their emotions. His finest and most successful opera is
Thais – the famous “Meditation” for violin and orchestra and it remains part of standard
violin repertoire.
9. Leo Delibes – a French composer of operattas, parodies and farces. His light-opera Lakme is
his masterpiece. Known for its coloratura aria “Bell Song”, Lakme contains Oriental scenes
illustrated with music of a novel, exotic character.

VI. Assessment
I. Identify the name of composer with choices in box (5 questions) Listening (5 items)
1. Who is the Austrian composer known for being the master of Romantic art song?
FRANZ SCHUBERT
2. Who was the composer best known for the ballet during the Romantic period? PETER
ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
3. Who is the German composer of music dramas? RICHARD WAGNER
4. Who is the French composer known for his opera comique Carmen? GEORGES BIZET
5. His librettists adapted works by authors like Victor Hugo and Shakespeare? GIUSEPPE
VERDI
II. Listening:
6. Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata
7. Franz Schubert – Ave Maria
8. Georges Bizet – Carmen: Habanera
9. Richard Wagner – The Ring: The Valkryie
10. Jules Massenet – Thais Meditation
VII. Summary
VIII. Assignment
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Have students Research about 20 Century Music, composers and their major works. Give at
least 5.
IX. Conclusion
Charlie Parker once said that “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts and
your wisdom”.

Prepared by:

Kim John Rei A. Correa

Practicum Student

Checked by:

Mr. Angelito E. Ayran

Coordinating Teacher

Noted by:

Mr. Jerson Bero Ladao

Practicum Teacher