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When:
January 31, 2020 – February 1, 2020 all-day
2020-01-31T00:00:00-07:00
2020-02-02T00:00:00-07:00
Where:
Delta Marriott Hotel
200 North Centennial Way Mesa
Arizona 85201
200 North Centennial Way Mesa
Arizona 85201
Contact:
JOHN CREVER – Arizona MEA Convention
Schedule:
Meeting Literacy Standards with Conversational Solfege: Rhythm (10:00 – 11:00 AM Superstition South)
Building on Zoltan Kodaly’s idea of teaching music reading using authentic repertoire, solfege and planning out the preparation, presentation and cumulative practice of each notational element to be experienced over time, John Feierabend’s life’s work, Conversational Solfege, utilizes new research to firm up and validate Kodaly’s earlier framework. This session will unpack Feierabend’s 12-step approach to teaching music reading in duple and triple meters. Using accessible traditional repertoire to set up an easy to use, informed sequence of musical experiences to model conversational language acquisition through listening and responding, rhythmic reading, dictation, composition and improvisation by an “ear-first” approach.
Meeting Literacy Standards with Conversational Solfege: Tonal (3:00 – 4:00 PM Superstition North)
Inspired by Kodaly’s idea of teaching music reading by planning the teaching of each notation element cumulatively over time, Feierabend’s work, Conversational Solfege, utilizes an extensive survey of up to date research and pedagogy paired with accessible, authentic repertoire to teach Tonal music reading. This session will demonstrate how easy it is to track and influence progress with a 12-step approach while setting up an informed sequence of musical experiences utilizing solfege, songs and active games to model musical language acquisition conversationally by listening and responding, tonal and rhythmic reading, dictation, composition and improvisation with an “ear-first” approach.
Growing Tuneful, Beatful, Artful Children the Feierabend Way: Pt 1. Tuneful (11:45 – 12:45 PM Superstition North)
All people are born with the potential to become musical. With limited music experiences in the early years, children consistently lose their intuitions for thinking tunes and responding to the expressiveness in music. For more than 40 years Dr. John Feierabend has been working to bring research into practice naturally, with a rich repertoire of traditional children’s songs, rhymes, games and dances intended to develop a child’s musical intuition and artfulness through regular musical workouts. This session will highlight building tuneful independence by focusing on pitch exploration, responding to song fragments, singing simple solo songs and arioso vocal improvisation
Growing Tuneful, Beatful, Artful Children the Feierabend Way: Pt 2. Movement (4:30 – 5:30 PM Superstition North)
In the curriculum First Steps in Music©, Dr. John Feierabend lays out what skills are essential for a child to master before music reading can be meaningful. Based on an extensive survey of research on beat development in infants through adolescents, Feierabend offers pathways to beatfulness and musical expressivity for every learner in the classroom with regular use of movement exploration warm-ups, movement for form and expression and keeping the beat activities. This will be an informative and experiential overview of the Feierabend way to teach early elementary movement in the classroom for children ages three to nine, and beyond.
Information: https://www.smore.com/dync8