When:
July 15, 2019 – July 19, 2019 all-day
2019-07-15T00:00:00-04:00
2019-07-20T00:00:00-04:00
Where:
Gordon College
Wenham
MA
USA
Contact:
Kristen Harrington
978.867.4429
2019 Conversational Solfege Level 1 & @ Certificate Course - Gordon College Summer Classes -Wenham, MA @ Gordon College | Wenham | Massachusetts | United States

JOHN FEIERABEND

Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2  FAME Certification Course

Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege™ addresses the National Standards, while enabling students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to become musically literate, including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation in an intuitive manner. Applications of Conversational Solfege™ are ideally suited to: elementary general music curricula; choral organizations at all levels; Orff Schulwerk; Kodály; Dalcroze; Gordon Music Learning Theory; high school and college sight singing and ear training; class piano; Suzuki; as well as recorder, band, and orchestral instrumental instruction.
Dr.Feierabend examines a pedagogical method that develops music literacy. Based on models used to teach conversational foreign languages, this course develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm and tonal syllables at a “conversational” level that gradually evolves into reading, writing, improvisation, and composition skills. This is a literature-driven curriculum. The sequencing of musical elements grows out of those tonal and rhythmic elements that exist in folk song literature. Each rhythm or tonal element is explored in patterns, songs, and themes from classical literature. Applications of conversational solfege range from elementary general and choral music courses to collegiate level choral, sight-singing, and ear-training courses.

Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).

Schedule
Monday July 15th through Friday July 19th  –  9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Daily

Gordon College – 255 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA 01984

Contact:  Kristen Harrington Phone: 978.867.4429 Email: Kristen.Harrington@gordon.edu

Registration: http://www.gordon.edu/workshops Register online

 

*Participants must register for the entire week. If you have previously participated in a Conversational Solfege Level I or II workshop at Gordon College, please contact Program Coordinator Kristen Harrington for registration options.