Nashville
TN
USA
JOHN FEIERABEND
12 Steps to Music Literacy Using Conversational Solfege – Friday April 13th
This lively and practical session will demonstrate how to develop students’ music literacy skills in the elementary through high school grades. With the use of rhythm and solfege syllables students are actively engaged with the acquisition of listening skills, rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, sight-reading, composition, and the ability to improvise. These activities are explained through fun techniques using traditional folk songs and great examples of classical literature Target Group: All: Elementary, Middle and High School
Becoming Tuneful Beatful Artful in Upper Elementary Grades – Friday April 13th
In this session participants will experience movement and vocal activities intended for students in mid to upper elementary school. The use of canons and songtales are presented to further develop good vocal technique through vocal warm-ups, fragment singing, whole songs, and part-singing. Playground games and song-dances are great to further develop beatful skills with fun challenges to coordinate the beat with objects and people.
THREE HOUR WORKSHOP – Saturday April 14th –10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC: VOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEARS
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.
Target Group: Pre Kindergarten through Third Grade
FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC:MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEARS
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.
Target Group: Pre Kindergarten through Third Grade