Musicianship Level 7/8 (Advanced Studies)
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Musicianship Level 7/8 (Advanced Studies)
Daily interactive sessions covering engaging activities for all years of Primary that promote the development of musicianship through both rigor and creativity. Explore modes of learning and assessing to ‘turn on’ the most ‘turned off’ students. Sessions will include new activities for familiar tunes, lesser-known folk repertoire and songs from outside of the folk and classical genres with a focus on effectively fostering students’ understanding and skills through active music making.
There is a unique educational approach, where music is a great tool for the learning-teaching process, where we can step closer to ourselves using full attention, self-expression, openness, acceptance, silence and last, but not least creativity.
This path has been set by one of Hungary’s most inspiring music pedagogues, the late Klára Kokas, who proved that the Kodály concept of music education is not a closed educational system, but it can be complemented by various creative pedagogical approaches. This experience-based pedagogy has its roots in the Kodály philosophy. An encounter with the most beautiful songs and lyrics of folk music, the active, profound reception of classical masterpieces is the most authentic manifestation of Kodály’s idea that “music is everyone’s”.
The principles of Klára Kokas’ music pedagogy lie in her realization that the best way to guide people towards concentrated attention and an absolute perception of classical music is through movement, activity, and creative work. Her pedagogy uses an age-appropriate, holistic approach with both children and adults to help them perceive music in its totality.
Come barefoot, bring comfortable clothes😊
This session will be hands-on, voices-on, practical and interactive. We will experience and explore many different ways in which the fundamental solfa system can be applied and of great benefit to your choir. The rewards are finer tuning and higher levels of musicianship. We will cover vocal and body warm-ups, canons, part-songs and repertoire, all infused with solfa.
Experience a demo session incorporating listening, alliteration, rhyme and syllable work through making music. Learn about the overlapping of musical readiness and reading readiness in a practical way. Come away with some new ‘old’ favourites to include into your work with your 3-5 year olds.
“Music is the fuel of the soul, and it has the power to transform lives.” – Kodaly
Explore how the primary music classroom environment can encourage inquiry and transdisciplinary learning, and how it develops highly fundamental 21st century skills, flagged in the Australian Curriculum as “critical for the evolving economy”.
The benefits of music education go far beyond musical proficiency. Authentic, high-quality music education programs should not only be engaging to the learner, but relevant, challenging, and significant. In the primary music classroom, students are supported to be agentic and self-regulated learners through the development of musical skills. Consider – How can the music teacher plan opportunities to develop not only musical skills, but spotlight critical 21st century skills?
Tools for learning (unlike subject specific skills) highlight ways of thinking, ways of working and ways of living which develop the whole child for the world beyond school and provide relevance to learning beyond the music classroom. The transfer effects of music learning sees that students are not only developing musical skills in authentic contexts but sees that they are equipped and empowered with invaluable tools for learning, to help them navigate life’s challenges and demonstrate agency.