60 Hofstra University
Hempstead
NY 11549 US
CRAIG KNAPP
Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 Certification Course 8:15 AM – 3:30 PM
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.
The Feierabend Curriculum 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 for Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).
Registration Link: www.hofstra.edu/summermusic – Non-credit students: A workshop fee is $700 per course.
Graduate credit students: Tuition is $1398 per graduate credit. The course is three graduate credits. Graduate credit students must also pay a $133 University fee.
Contact: Michael Baur Email: mwbaur@gmail.com Phone: 631-987-8043 Hofstra University
Joseph G. Shapiro Family Hall – 160 Hofstra University, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead, NY 11549 US