Hot Springs
VA 24445
USA
Session #1
FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC: VOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEARS Thursday, November 16th 3:00 – 4:00 PM – Empire Room
During the early learning years, children can acquire musical sensitivities, which will provide them with a lifetime of expressive and accurate singing intuitions. This lively session will present insights and activities that can foster those intuitions in children from three to age nine, through the use of folk songs and games.
FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC: MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEARS Thursday, November 16th 5:00 – 6:00 PM – Empire Room
During the early learning years, children can acquire musical sensitivities, which will provide them with a lifetime of expressive and accurate movement intuitions. This energetic session will present insights and activities that can foster those intuitions in children from birth to age nine, through the use of folk songs and rhymes as well as through movement experiences with classical recordings.
12 STEPS TO MUSIC LITERACY USING CONVERSATIONAL SOLFEGE Friday, November 17th 10:30 – 11:30 AM – Empire Room
Through carefully sequenced activities this fun workshop will address the National Standards while demonstrating how to enable students to joyfully assimilate the content and skills necessary to become musically literate including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation in an intuitive manner. Participants will experience a curriculum that grows out of tonal and rhythmic elements that exist in the folk song literature of this country. Each rhythm or tonal element will be explored in patterns, songs and themes from classical literature.
All Conference Community Dance – Open to all Conference Attendees and their Families Friday, November 17th 9:00 – 10:00 PM – Empire Room
John Feierabend will lead his favorite traditional dances. Dances are in longways, circle, scatter and surprise formations; no experience necessary, all dances will be taught. First and
foremost, both contra and English dancing are enormously fun! No description in words can convey the sense of joy, unity and excitement that a community dance can offer. You just have to come a few times to find out for yourself.
12 STEPS TO MUSIC LITERACY USING CONVERSATIONAL SOLFEGE – Part 2 Saturday, November 18th 9:30 – 10:30 AM – Empire Room
Literature using advanced Solfege patterns with a parallel development of rhythm patterns in 2/4 and 6/8 meter will be presented. Opportunities for early experience in part singing are demonstrated with, rhythmic and melodic sight-reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation. Participants will experience a curriculum that grows out of tonal and rhythmic elements found in folk song to classical literature.