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DR. JOHN FEIERABEND
Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful Singing in Upper Elementary
Feierabend will offer easy and fun strategies for students’ first experiences with part-singing. Activities will include adding bassline melodies to songs, games for working on intonation when singing in parts, and delightful rounds and canons organized by difficulty.
Texas Music Educators Association Convention – San Antonio, Texas
Saturday February 12th 9:30 – 10:30 am – GRAND HYATT 2ND FL – LONE STAR ABC
DR. JOHN FEIERABEND
Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 Certification Course / Kodály Methods II
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).
CONTACT: Rachel Ware Carlton PHONE: 920 565-1000 Ex 2153 EMAIL: CarltonRJ@lakeland.edu
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: http://lakeland.edu/kodaly
This class is labeled two ways: Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 (Lower Levels) Certification Course and MUS 542 Kodály Methods II
- Course Materials: Conversational Solfege Level 1 Teacher’s Edition (G 5380) and CD 526/ mp3 Conversational Solfege Level 2 Teacher’s Edition (G 5381) and CD 527/ mp3
DR. JOHN FEIERABEND
Conversational Solfege Certification Course / Kodaly Level 3 Course
Class Materials : Conversational Solfege Book 3 and CD or mp3 file
MUS 544 Kodály Methods III
MUS 503C Conversational Solfege Certification Course – Upper Level (Book 3 and CD/mp3)
- MUS 503 Conversational Solfege Upper Level Certification Course
Conversational Solfege Upper Levels further explores the development of music literacy through analyzing songs and creating a sequence of learning, based on song content and skill development. Strategies include listening, reading, writing, writing lesson plans, and establishing yearly goals and an introduction of how to teach harmonic function in major and minor tonalities as they apply to improvisation and composition. This course is applicable to upper elementary general music, as well as middle school and high school choral, and instrumental teachers.
While highly recommended, participants are not required to already have completed Conversational Solfege Levels I and II Certification. Participants will be required to purchase the newly revised (2018) Conversational Solfege Level 3 Teachers Edition and CD/mp3
CONTACT: Rachel Ware Carlton EMAIL: CarltonRJ@lakeland.edu PHONE: 920 565-1000 Ex 2153
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: http://lakeland.edu/kodaly
MUS 544 Kodály Methods III MUS 503C Conversational Solfege – Upper Level
DR. JOHN FEIERABEND
Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 (Books 1 & 2) Certification Course / Kodaly Level 2 Certification Class
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).
Contact : Warren Haston Email: Haston@hartford.edu Phone: 860 768 5526
Registration Information: https://harttsummerterm.hartford.edu//hartt/summerterm/default.aspx
DR. JOHN FEIERABEND
Conversational Solfege Upper Levels Certification Courese/ Kodaly Level 3 Class
Conversational Solfege Upper Levels further explores the development of music literacy through analyzing songs and creating a sequence of learning, based on song content and skill development. Strategies include listening, reading, writing, writing lesson plans, and establishing yearly goals and an introduction of how to teach harmonic function in major and minor tonalities as they apply to improvisation and composition. This course is applicable to upper elementary general music, as well as middle school and high school choral, and instrumental teachers.
While highly recommended, participants are not required to already have completed Conversational Solfege Levels I and II Certification. Participants will be required to purchase the newly revised (2018) Conversational Solfege Level 3 Teachers Edition and CD/mp3
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion for Conversational Solfege Upper Levels from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).
Contact : Warren Haston Email: Haston@hartford.edu Phone: 860 768 5526
Registration Information: https://harttsummerterm.hartford.edu//hartt/summerterm