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Conversational Solfege (™) is a pedagogical method to be used with children who have already developed tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of melody and rhythm. Conversational Solfege develops the comprehension of music through the use of rhythm and solfege syllables aurally, at a conversational level, then gradually evolves into written music notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Through various techniques, Conversational Solfege allows the acquisition of musical reading and writing, dictation, improvisation, and composition in an intuitive manner. This course is applicable to general music, choral, and instrumental teachers.

Finding the joy in music class (CS + FSM + Play) – Conway, AR

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Jun 24 @ 8:15 am – Jun 28 @ 3:30 pm

Focus on Fun: Finding the joy in music class (CS + FSM + Play) with Chris Powers

1 Day FS Overview; 2 Day CS Overview: 3 Days of “Focus on the FUN: Finding the Joy in Music Class”

8:15am – 3:30pm CST

$450 (before May 1, 2024)

Univ. of Central Arkansas,
201 Donaghey Ave, Conway, AR

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/registerfindingthejoy

INFORMATION & GRADUATE CREDITS CONTACT: Christa Kuebel – ckuebel1@uca.edu (501) 450-5756

Course Description

Music games are an essential tool to authentically engage students in learning. During this course, participants will learn and play many fun, engaging activities that will not only challenge students but will also bring the FUN back to the music room. We will also look at how these activities can be linked to literacy objectives.

First Steps in Music Certification – Nashville, TN – Belmont, Univ.

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Jun 24 @ 9:00 am – Jun 27 @ 4:00 pm

First Steps in Music: Certification Course with Emily Maurek

June 24 – 27, 2024
9am – 4pm CST

MORE INFORMATION:

REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.belmont.edu/cmpa/summer-camps/

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The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three, but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

All people are born with the potential to become musical. With inappropriate or limited musical experiences in the early years, children consistently lose their intuitions for thinking tunes, feeling rhythms, and responding to expressiveness in music. This lively course will provide a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how a “natural” curriculum rich in a repertoire of traditional children’s songs, rhymes, games, and dances can develop young children’s musical aptitude.

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in three ways:

1. Tuneful – to have tunes in their heads and learn how to coordinate their voices to those tunes.

2. Beatful – to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either 2s or 3s.

3. Artful – to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful response.

A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to age 3 will be presented as well as a curriculum for 3 – 8 year old children in classroom settings. Participants can receive certification in First Steps in Music by the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

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25

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Conversational Solfege Levels 1 & 2 Certification – Chicago, IL – Concordia Univ.

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Jun 25 @ 9:30 am – Jun 29 @ 4:30 pm

Conversational Solfege Levels 1 & 2 Certification with Emily Woock

June 25 – 29, 20204

9:30am – 4:30 pm CST – IN PERSON

$350 (discount for CUC students and church-related professionals)

Concordia University Chicago,
1 Morrow Way, 7400 Augusta Street,
River Forest, IL

Registration opening soon

MORE INFORMATION: Chuck Brown – charles.brown@cuchicago.edu | 708-209-3066

Course Description

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 COMING SOON

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8

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First Steps in Music Certification – Burlington, VT

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Jul 8 @ 8:00 am – Jul 12 @ 4:00 pm

First Steps in Music Certification Course with Betsy Greene

July 8 – 12, 2024
8 am – 4 pm
Champlain Elementary School,
800 Pine St.,
Burlington, VT 05401

Hosted by Music-COMP in collaboration with Center for Schools,
Vermont State University at Castleton, VT

3 graduate credits or 45 professional development hours

Register: https://music-comp.org/professional-development

Contact: Stefanie Weigand, Music-COMP executive-director, stefanie@music-comp.org

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Course Description: First Steps in Music (™) is a research-based, curricular framework combining the development of singing and movement skills in order to maximize musical aptitude in young children, typically grades PreK-2. The eight-part “workout” is designed to encourage musical independence and creativity through joyful activities and experiences shared with others while developing the prerequisite skills needed for music literacy: singing in tune, keeping a steady beat, and developing sensitivity to the expressive elements of music. First Steps in Music is a developmentally appropriate music education framework for instruction with techniques that provide pathways to meeting students where they are in their musical development, no matter the age or ability. Included in this course will be opportunities to practice teaching and a full demonstration class with early elementary students.

About the course Instructor: Betsy Greene teaches in Burlington, Vermont where she is the music teacher and choral director for Champlain Elementary School (K-5). Betsy earned her undergraduate degree in music education from the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam) and her Master’s Degree in Music Education under Dr. John Feierabend from the former Hartt School of Music (currently the Hartt School) at the University of Hartford, CT. She holds her Kodály certification from the Hartt School and her Orff-Schulwerk Levels I-III from the University of St. Thomas. In 1998, she received the Outstanding Arts Advocate Award from the past Vermont Arts Alliance and, then in 2008, the Music Educator of the Year Award from the Vermont Music Educators Association. Betsy is a founding member of the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME) having served as Member-at-Large and President (2017-2019). She is a frequent presenter of workshops and graduate courses as a FAME endorsed teacher trainer and a specialist for integrating the Feierabend Approach with Orff Schulwerk. Betsy is a co-author for First Steps in Music with Orff Schulwerk: Sing, Say, Dance, Play (GIA Publications, 2017) and a contributing author for the Feierabend Fundamentals: History, Philosophy, and Practice (GIA Publications, 2018).

First Steps in Music Certification – Wenham, MA – Gordon College

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Jul 8 @ 8:30 am – Jul 12 @ 3:30 pm

First Steps in Music Certification with Lillie Feierabend

July 8 – 12, 2024
8:30am – 3:30pm EST – IN PERSON

$1275 (3 graduate credits) or $980 (non credit)

Gordon College,
255 Grapevine Road,
Wenham, MA

Register: https://www.gordon.edu/workshops

MORE INFORMATION: Kristen Harrington – kristen.harrington@gordon.edu 978-867-4429

Course Description

All people are born with the potential to become musical. With inappropriate or limited musical experiences in the early years, children consistently lose their intuitions for thinking tunes, feeling rhythms, and responding to expressiveness in music. This course will provide a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how a “natural” curriculum rich in repertoire of traditional children’s songs, rhymes, games and dances can develop young children’s musical aptitude. The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in three ways: 1. Tuneful – to have tunes in their heads and learn how to coordinate their voices to those tunes. 2. Beatful – to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either 2s or 3s. 3. Artful – to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful response. A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to age 3 will be presented as well as a curriculum for 3 – 8 year old children in classroom settings. Participants can receive certification in First Steps in Music by the Feierabend Association for Music Education

Jul

15

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Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification -The Hartt School of Music – Hartford, CT

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Jul 15 @ 8:00 am – Jul 26 @ 10:00 am

Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification with Chris Powers

July 15-26, 2024
8am-10am (Monday-Friday – 2 weeks)

$550 for 2 credits

Hartt School of Msuic
200 Bloomfield Avenue,
West Hartford, CT

https://tinyurl.com/RegisterHartt2024

contact: chpowers@hartford.edu

Course Description

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).

Conversational Solfege Upper Levels Certification – The Hartt School, Hartford, CT

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Jul 15 @ 10:10 am – Jul 26 @ 12:10 pm

Conversational Solfege Upper Levels Certification with Chris Powers

July 15-26, 2024
10:10am – 12:10 PM (Monday-Friday – 2 weeks)

$550 for 2 credits

Hartt School of Music
200 Bloomfield Avenue,
West Hartford, CT

https://tinyurl.com/RegisterHartt2024

contact: chpowers@hartford.edu

Course Description

John Feierabend’s 2018 reissued book Conversational Solfege Level 3 (a.k.a. “Upper Levels” or just “CSUL”), is the same Ear-First Approach to thinking musical thoughts that sets Conversational Solfege apart, and it’s geared towards MS/HS performing ensembles. CSUL picks up the sequence where Level 2 left off, guiding students to think, read and write in most keys, meters, and regions of the staff. CSUL also offers a curriculum to teach musicians a Conversational knowledge of major and minor diatonic harmony, and its application to teaching improvisation and composition with performing ensemble classroom. Building on the conversational skill of “discovering the baseline” to create a harmony, introduced in Lev. 2, this curriculum leads students to use a bass line to inform tonal analysis to reveal the corresponding diatonic chord tones, and the many melodic counter-puntal possibilities that weave harmony together. Come prepared to sing.

First Steps in Music Certification -The Hartt School – West Hartford, CT

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Jul 15 @ 2:10 pm – Jul 26 @ 4:40 pm

First Steps in Music Certification with Stephanie Schall-Brazee

July 15-26, 2024
2:10 – 4:40 PM (Monday-Friday – 2 weeks)

$550 for 2 credits

The Hartt School of Music
200 Bloomfield Avenue,
West Hartford, CT

https://tinyurl.com/RegisterHartt2024

contact: chpowers@hartford.edu

Course Description

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three, but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education..

Jul

22

Mon

Folk Song and Dance Around the World! with Lillie Feierabend

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Jul 22 @ 8:30 am – Jul 26 @ 4:30 pm

Folk Song and Dance Around the World with Lillie Feierabend

July 22 – 26, 2024 – 5-Day Course
8:30am – 4:30pm ES – IN-PERSON

3 credits: $825

Hartt School of Music,
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT

Registration Link: https://www.hartford.edu/academics/schools-colleges/hartt/academics/music/music-education/hartt-summerterm-1.aspx

contact: Thomas Scavone – scavone@hartford.edu 860.768.4903

Course Description

Humor, love, kindness, and joy are universal. Community music-making builds a bridge where we are offered a glimpse into another culture and are delighted to find ourselves looking back. A country’s musical culture can also offer insight into its history, spirit, values, and heart. We can appreciate and begin to know a little about a people when we move in their footsteps, sing their songs, and play their games. These delightful gifts, traversing not only cultures, but generations, can lead to greater awareness and global understanding. This lively workshop will explore twenty cultures through their folk dance, rounds, passing games, play parties, clapping games, and literature. This course is applicable to all grade levels. Join us as we meet wonderful people through the gift of their music.

Jul

29

Mon

Conversational Solfege 1 & Certification – Chicago, IL – Vandercook College

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Jul 29 @ 8:00 am – Aug 2 @ 5:00 pm

Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification with Emily Maurek

July 29 – August 2, 2024
8am – 5pm CST – IN PERSON

$1,125 (3 graduate credits)

VanderCook College of Music,
3140 S. Federal St.,
Chicago, IL

Registration : https://tinyurl.com/registerCSvandercook

Course Description

Conversational Solfege (™) is a pedagogical method to be used with children who have already developed tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of melody and rhythm. Conversational Solfege develops the comprehension of music through the use of rhythm and solfege syllables aurally, at a conversational level, then gradually evolves into written music notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Through various techniques, Conversational Solfege allows the acquisition of musical reading and writing, dictation, improvisation, and composition in an intuitive manner. This course is applicable to general music, choral, and instrumental teachers.

First Steps in Music Certification – Chicago, IL – Vandercook College

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Jul 29 @ 8:00 am – Aug 2 @ 5:00 pm

First Steps in Music Certification – with Lillie Feierabend

July 29 – Aug. 2, 2024
8:00am – 5pm CST – IN PERSON

$1125 (3 graduate credits)

VanderCook College of Music,
3140 S. Federal St.,
Chicago, IL

contact: Joseph Koppel – jkoppel@vandercook.edu | 312-788-1139

REGISTRATION LINK: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1618/index.aspx?sid=1618&gid=1&pgid=1959&cid=3746

Course Description

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three, but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education. All people are born with the potential to become musical. With inappropriate or limited musical experiences in the early years, children consistently lose their intuitions for thinking tunes, feeling rhythms, and responding to expressiveness in music. This lively course will provide a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how a “natural” curriculum rich in repertoire of traditional children’s songs, rhymes, games, and dances can develop young children’s musical aptitude. The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in three ways: 1. Tuneful – to have tunes in their heads and learn how to coordinate their voices to those tunes. 2. Beatful – to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either 2s or 3s. 3. Artful – to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful response. A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to age 3 will be presented, as well as a curriculum for 3 – 8 year old children in classroom settings. Participants can receive certification in First Steps in Music by the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

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5

Mon

First Steps in Music Course – Wayne State University, MI

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Aug 5 @ 8:30 am – Aug 7 @ 5:00 pm

First Steps in Music Certification with Stephanie Schall-Brazee

August 5 – 7, 2024
8:30 – 5:00 PM (24 HOURS) FACE TO FACE

Wayne State University Department of Music,
Old Main Building
480 Hancock Street RM 2402,
Detroit, MI 48202

Contact: Stephanie Schall-Brazee schallbrazee@gmail.com

REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/registerfsmwaynestate

Course Description

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three, but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

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First Steps in Music Certification with John Crever

First Steps in Music Certification with Andy Himelick

First Steps in Music Certification with Stephanie Schall-Brazee

Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification with Leslie Weaver

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Focus on Fun: Finding the joy in music class (CS + FSM + Play) with Chris Powers

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First Steps in Music: Certification Course with Emily Maurek

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Conversational Solfege Levels 1 & 2 Certification with Emily Woock

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First Steps in Music Certification Course with Betsy Greene

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First Steps in Music Certification with Lillie Feierabend

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Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification with Chris Powers

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Conversational Solfege Upper Levels Certification with Chris Powers

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First Steps in Music Certification with Stephanie Schall-Brazee

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Folk Song and Dance Around the World with Lillie Feierabend

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Conversational Solfege 1 & 2 Certification with Emily Maurek

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First Steps in Music Certification – with Lillie Feierabend

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First Steps in Music Certification with Stephanie Schall-Brazee

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