2021 Ohio Music Educators Association Virtual Convention
Saturday, February 6, 2021 9:00 – 11:00 AM
12 STEPS TO MUSIC LITERACY USING CONVERSATIONAL SOLFEGE
Developing Rhythmic and Melodic Literacy skills
This workshop demonstrates how to enable students to joyfully assimilate the content and skills necessary to become musically literate including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation. Each rhythmic element will also be explored in patterns, songs and themes from classical literature. Literature using advanced Solfege patterns with a parallel development of rhythm patterns in 2/4 and 6/8 meter will also be presented. Opportunities for part-singing are demonstrated with rhythmic and melodic sight-reading and dictation. Participants experiences a curriculum that grows out of rhythmic elements that exist in the folk song literature of this country