Podcasts about conversational solfege

This episode is all about helping students find a sense of belonging in the music room. Once teachers develop an empathy based approach with your students, you'll notice it leads to connection, which therefore leads to belonging. Students need to be able to come into the music room knowing they belong there. The music room is a safe space where students should be able to take a risk and make a mistake. Real empathy builds belonging and fosters a sense of belonging. Throughout our entire conversation, Dr. Missy Strong talked with me about empathy, how her approach to teaching music has changed, and the ways she helps her students be their most musical selves by feeling like they belong. Missy Strong has taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the early childhood, elementary, and middle school levels for 26 years. She holds a Master of Music Education degree from Rowan University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education with a specialty in Early Childhood Development from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Missy currently teaches elementary general and choral music. She has served as the Senior Research Assistant for Music Together and was the director of children's music education at Philadelphia's historic Tenth Presbyterian Church for over a decade. Missy is a FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer in both First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege. She is a Founding Member of FAME and the former President of the organization. A frequent music education consultant and clinician, Missy presents conference sessions, professional development workshops, webinars, and courses at the collegiate, international, regional, state, and local levels. She is a published author and editor with articles in both state and national music education journals and books from GIA Publications and Oxford University Press. Missy and her composer/pianist husband Jeremy live in Southern New Jersey with their four kids, Ethan, Owen, Lorelei, and Jackson. Connect with Missy here: In her Facebook group On Instagram @musicedwithmissy On Twitter @DocStrong26 At her TpT store Find out more about the HARMONY membership here. Get your copy of Make A Note: What You Really Need to Know About Teaching Elementary Music Head to my website to grab your free music teaching resource. I'd love for you to leave a rating and a review of the podcast on I-tunes, be sure to share the podcast with any music teacher friends who would find it helpful and be sure to tag me on Instagram or Facebook.

  Missy talks with Taylor Kurilew, a teacher in the first years of using John Feierabend's Conversational Solfege music literacy program for elementary students. In a former podcast, Missy and Taylor spent 3 episodes talking about the mechanics of CS as well as how to roll it out for the first time in her classroom. … Continue reading Taylor Kurilew: CS – Let's Get Back Into It! S02E05 →

This episode is an interview with JoEllyn Sumner of The Tuneful Teacher. She, like a lot of you, shifted to virtual teaching both as an elementary music teacher and in her parent child music classes. We talk about how parents and teachers are looking for creative ideas to do with their children while you're at home more than you usually are. JoEllyn stresses the importance that parents can be their child's teacher and how you don't need to have the greatest singing voice to do so. Being an elementary or secondary music teacher is way different than teaching the little learners. So, it can be confusing knowing what to do with the littles, whether it's your own child or if you're asked to teach a preschool music class. In this episode, you'll hear SO much helpful advice that you can apply to your elementary music teaching or if you're a parent as well. JoEllyn Sumner is a 15 year K-4 music teaching veteran from the Chicagoland area, who has also been virtually teaching parents how to cultivate a Tuneful Home for the past year. She has 2 B.A.'s - Vocal Performance and Music Education, as well as an M.A. in Educational Administration. She also has countless post-graduate credits specializing in Orff-Schulwerk, First Steps in Music, Conversational Solfege and prenatal, infant, and toddler music as well. JoEllyn loves singing, dancing, and listening to all sorts of music from around the world -- and wants to bring that passion to all the parents and families she meets! You can connect with JoEllyn here: Website: www.thetunefulteacher.com Instagram: @thetunefulteacher Facebook Page: The Tuneful Teacher Facebook Group: The Tuneful Teacher Parent Group YouTube: The Tuneful Teacher Twitter: TheTunefulTeach Other links shared in this episode: Find out more about and sign up for the HARMONY membership waitlist here. Check out the Learn Piano At Home course right here. Head to my website to grab your free music teaching resource. Join the Elementary Music Teacher Community Facebook group to continue the conversation and you can watch the Thursday Facebook lives on my Facebook page The Domestic Musician. I'd love for you to leave a rating and a review of the podcast on I-tunes, be sure to share the podcast with any music teacher friends who would find it helpful and be sure to tag me on Instagram or Facebook.

  FAME Teacher Trainer and Indiana Music Educator Association's 2021 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award recipient Andy Himelick talks with Missy about how teaching is going for him during the pandemic. They chat about his First Steps and Conversational Solfege instruction and he gives Missy an update on the Conversational Solfege and Orff book project he … Continue reading Andy Himelick: FAME Teacher Trainer Talk | S01E06 →

Missy sits down with FAME Teacher Trainer and FAME President-Elect Emily Maurek to talk about what Conversational Solfege is and why it is such a great program to use with kids who are tuneful, beatful, and artful. About Emily Maurek    Find the book First Steps in Music with Orff Schulwerk (referenced by Missy in […] The post Series-Reflections on Conversational Solfege: a Teacher Trainer Perspective | S2E15 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

John Feierabend’s Conversational Program is a phenomenal way to help  your already Tuneful, Beatful, Artful students become musically independent and notationally literate, but it can be challenging for teachers to master the process. In this series of episodes, gneral music teacher Taylor Kurilew asks Missy questions about CS after trying it in her classroom for […] The post Conversational Solfege in the Real World- Taylor Kurilew Part 3 | S2E14 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

John Feierabend’s Conversational Program is a phenomenal way to help  your already Tuneful, Beatful, Artful students become musically independent and notationally literate, but it can be challenging for teachers to master the process. In this series of episodes, gneral music teacher Taylor Kurilew asks Missy questions about CS after trying it in her classroom for […] The post Conversational Solfege in the Real World – Taylor Kurilew Part 2 | S2E13 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

John Feierabend’s Conversational Program is a phenomenal way to help  your already Tuneful, Beatful, Artful students become musically independent and notationally literate, but it can be challenging for teachers to master the process. In this series of episodes, gneral music teacher Taylor Kurilew asks Missy questions about CS after trying it in her classroom for […] The post Conversational Solfege in the Real World- Taylor Kurilew Part 1 | S2E12 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

Missy and John continue talking about CS Upper Levels, this time talking about the success John had using CS with his high school choirs as well as with his undergraduate music students. Then, John talks about the development of a line of choral music easily accessible music for the unauditioned choir. Conversational Solfege Level 3 […] The post Conversational Solfege Upper Levels: the Revision Part 2 | S2E10 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

Dr. Feierabend joins Missy again, this time to talk about the new revision of the Upper Levels of Conversational Solfege. In Part One of their discussion, John touches on the progression from Book 2 of Conversational Solfege with its focus on Tonic and Dominant harmonic support to Book 3 where he begins to introduce Subdominant. […] The post Conversational Solfege Upper Levels: the Revision Part 1 | S2E09 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

Emmy Woock, Director of Music Ministries at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Elmhurst, Illinois, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about why music literacy is so important for children, how learning the language of music inspires children to learn and create on their own, and how teaching music educators how to teach things like Conversational Solfege™ can make an impact on many children in Lutheran schools. Learn more about music literacy and Conversational Solfege™ at feierabendmusic.org/conversational-solfege. This is a rebroadcast from July 29, 2019.

Emmy Woock, Director of Music Ministries at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Elmhurst, Illinois, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about why music literacy is so important for children, how learning the language of music inspires children to learn and create on their own, and how teaching music educators how to teach things like Conversational Solfege™ can make an impact on many children in Lutheran schools. Learn more about music literacy and Conversational Solfege™ at feierabendmusic.org/conversational-solfege.

On this 2-part episode, we were joined by RaeAnna Goss, singing teacher, homeschool graduate, homeschooling mother, and Charlotte Mason follower, who has created Solfa Sofa, an early years approach for introducing singing in a CM-friendly way. We were also joined by Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique, but we invited Crystal back for another episode about her own CM approach to combining story and music, which will air in a couple of weeks. Other ideas and resources mentioned in the podcast: 0:00 Introductions4:25 The Curwin approach, Tonic Solfa, and the Modulator9:50 Difference between Curwen and Kodály, and why Raeanna supports Kodály11:15 What is the Kodály approach?14:30 What would a singing lesson look like in CM's time? 3 minutes of voice training5 minutes of modulator practice3 minutes of sight singing7 minutes of rhythm work4 minutes of ear training8 minutes to practice songs17:58 John M. Feierabend and Conversational Solfege"Children should be tuneful, beatful, and artful."20:28 An overview of the progression of singing through Forms 1 and 224:25 Resouces at Solfa Sofa that can help with early years26:30 Forms 3 (part-songs and rounds), and higher (descants, classical repetoire)28:55 Losing joy in singing and moving more into theory and other music approaches (PNEU article: A Few Remarks on Teaching Music by W.H. Leslie)33:14 Perfect Pitch and Moveable Doe35:05 Shortening Form 1 lessons and help them find their singing voice

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FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer Chris Anne Powers outlines how she and her district colleagues successfully combine rhythm and tonal units of Conversational Solfege starting in 2nd grade.   The post Conversational Solfege: Teaching tonal and rhythm units simultaneously | S1E07 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

John Feierabend and Missy talk about Conversational Solfege, Dr. Feierabend’s curriculum that teaches music literacy with a sound before sight approach. Learn about the 12 Steps of Conversational Solfege and how through it, students learn to become independent musical thinkers! The post Conversational Solfege – An Overview | S1E02 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.