2011–2012 Course Offerings
Kodály Level I Solfège
Pamela Wood, Instructor
Mon 6:00-7:30 pm
1 credit: $575
Non-credit: $410
Fall Semester Only: Sept. 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, Dec. 5, 12, 19, Make up Jan. 23
This class includes sight-reading, dictation, transposition, analysis, improvisation, and ear training through the medium of the human voice. Both movable “do” solmization and fixed, absolute letter names are used to develop relative and perfect pitch. Training usually begins with simple unison pentatonic and diatonic melodies, leading to complex part-music. Musical material includes folksongs through masterworks of all periods and styles, and includes many of Kodály’s composed exercises. All skills are developed simultaneously through live music-making (as opposed to chalkboard written theory).
Texts: Bicinia Americana Books I & II by Mark Williams; 46 Two Part Folk Songs by Denise Bacon; 333 Elementary Reading Exercises and Bicinia Hungarica by Zoltan Kodály; Sail Away, ed. Locke; 150 American Folk Songs, ed. Erdei/Komlos; Reading and Writing Exercises Vol. 1 by J. A. Young. Octavos:William Grant Still's Where will I be?, Thomas’ Fences SSA; Two Easy Voices Set One and Two Voices Set Two by J. A. Young.
Equipment: tuning fork, staff paper, pencils. Textbooks distributed and materials fees collected at first class.
Kodály Level I: Pedagogy, Materials, and Thesis
Jonathan Rappaport, Instructors
Wed 6:00-8:00pm
2 credits: $1150
Non-credits: $820
No Pre-requisite
Fall Semester Only: Sept. 28, Oct. 5, 13, 19, 26, Nov. 9, 16, 30, Dec. 6, 13, 20, Jan. 11, 18, 25, Make up Feb. 1
Pedagogy covers beginning concepts and elements for learners of all ages, and includes the development of tuneful singing, differentiated learning styles, readiness concepts, and beginning stages of musical reading and writing of rhythmic and melodic elements and patterns. The pedagogical process will be stressed, with preparation, presentation, and practice of specific elements and concepts, skill development, long and short-term planning, and the application of materials to any age student or teaching situation. Incorporation of 1) the learning strands of the MA Arts Framework, 2) authentic assessment practices in the arts, and 3) the viewing and analysis of videos of master music teaching will be included. Those students taking the BAKE workshops for credit will develop lesson plans incorporating workshop materials and processes.
Music materials will be multi-ethnic and will include simple playground songs, nursery rhymes, folk songs, singing games, dances, canons, and art music of many periods, as well as how this material supports student learning and musicality. Participants will learn and/or memorize approximately fifty songs of classroom-tested, proven materials by the end of the course. The capstone project is beginning the Thesis–Song Collection and Retrieval System
Texts: Kodály Teaching Weave Vol. 1 & II & III, Epstein and Rappaport; 150 American Folk Songs, ed. Erdei/Komlos; Sail Away, ed. E. Locke; Step it Down, by Bessie Jones/Bess Hawes Lomax; Research & Retrieval, by Floice Lund. Kodaly's "Quoting the Masters" booklet ed. Jonathan Rappaport. Texts distributed and Materials fee will be collected on the first day of class.
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Kodály Level I Choral Conducting
Susan Cleveland, Instructor
Tue 6:00-8:00pm
1 credit: $575
Non-credit: $410
No pre-requisites. Repertoire to be determined by the instructor on first day of classes.
Fall Semester Only: Sept 26, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov. 8, 15
This course will consist of small-group conducting classes. Topics include how to prepare and memorize a score, correct conducting patterns in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 meters, proper choral conducting techniques and body stance, interpretation of unison through complex part music in different styles. Basic preparation and rehearsal techniques for a children's mini-opera will be discussed.
Enrollment limited to 10 participants.
Texts to include but not limited to the following: “Knights in Shining Armour” by Malcolm Williamson and “The Path To The Moon” by Eric H. Thiman. Cost: $25. Textbooks will be distributed
and materials fees collected at the first class.
Tools: baton, metronome, A-440 tuning fork, colored pencils (red, blue, green, brown), looseleaf binder, paper, pencils.
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Kodály Level I: Saturday Workshop Series
Margie Callaghan and Brian Michaud, Supervising Instructors
3 Sa: 9:00 am-2:00 pm
1 credit: $575 + BAKE Workshop registration fees
No Pre-requisite
Oct. 29, Nov. 19, Jan. 14
This workshop series is a great way for one to network in the field of music education and to earn professional development points toward recertification or licensure too. No matter if you are a student, a novice or a veteran music teacher, these workshops will electrify your teaching. The series is presented as a joint collaboration among the Boston Area Kodály Educator (Martha Holmes, President), the Kodály Music Institute (Mary A Epstein, Department Chair, and the Music Education Department, Boston University (Dr. Susan Conklin, Chair).
NOTE: Students need to register separately for attending the Boston Area Kodály Educators for the workshops by going to www.bostonareakodaly.org and for receiving credit from the NEC SCE. In order to recieve credit, please register here. If you have any questions, please contact Martha Holmes.
October 29, 2011 – Jay Broeker (Composing, Arranging, Improvising)
November 19, 2011 – Joan Litman (Middle Eastern Music for Classroom & Choir)
January 14, 2012 – Dr. Jill Trinka (Ballads and Play Parties)
Off Campus Location
Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02114 (Located in the Orchestra Room)
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Kodály Level I Musicology: American Folk Dance
Susie Petrov, Instructor
Tue 6:00-8:00pm
1 Graduate Credit: $575
Non-credit: $410
No Pre-requisite
Fall Semester Only: Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 13, Jan. 3, 10, 17
This course focuses on both current and historical social folk dance styles as enjoyed by people in the Boston area and around New England. The class will learn the art, discipline and sequential pedagogy of teaching dancing to students in school. Participants will learn a large variety of dances and how dance builds a community of learners. Class members will delve into the history of country dancing and its relation to the social changes that occurred in communities through the Industrial Revolution.
Text: Beth Tolman and Ralph Page; The Country Dance Book, The Best of the Early Contras and Squares- Their History, Lore, Callers, Tunes, and Joyful Instructions, pub. Stephen Greene Press. Texts distributed and Materials fee will be collected on the first day of class.
Kodály Level II Solfège
Pamela Wood, Instructor
Mon 6:00-7:30pm
1 Credit: $690
Non-credit: TBA
Spring Semester Only: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 27, Mar. 5, 12, 26, Apr. 2, 9, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21, Make up May 29
This class includes sight-singing, dictation, transposition, analysis, improvisation and ear training through the medium of the human voice. Both movable “do” solmization and fixed, absolute letter names are used to develop relative and perfect pitch. Training begins with unison pentatonic, diatonic, and chromatic melodiesand leads to complex part-music that is modulatory in character. The foci of this class will be: in-tune unison, solo and part singing; relative solmization, absolute pitch names, and rhythm names; pentatonic, diatonic major and minor and modal systems; sight-singing and musical memory; rhythmic, melodic and intervallic dictation; stick and staff notation, conducting, hand signs; chromaticism; G, F, and C clefs; modulations and harmonic progressions. Musical material includes folksongs through masterworks of all periods and styles, and includes many of Kodály’s composed exercises. All skills are developed simultaneously through live music making and written theory.
Texts: 46 Two Part Folk Songs by Denise Bacon; Juilliard Repertory Library Vocal Volume 3; 333 Elementary Reading Exercises, Bicinia Hungarica 1, 77 Two-part Exercises and Tricinia by Zoltán Kodály; Sail Away ed. Eleanor G. Locke; 150 American Folk Songs ed. Erdei/Komlos; Classical Canons by Antal Molnar.
Octavos: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? 2-part Arr. by Moses Hogan; Where Shall I Be? SSA arr. William Grant Still; Spring; Fences SSA (or SATB depending upon class members) by André Thomas; The Singers (Three Children's Songs) Unison by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Tools: A-440 tuning fork, manuscript paper, pencils with eraser.
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Kodály Level II Conducting
David Hodgkins, Instructor
Tue 6:00-8:00pm
1 Credit: $575
Non-credit: $410
Spring Semester Only: Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 28, March 6, 13, 27, Make up April 3
This course is a choral conducting laboratory. In addition to expanding Level I skills, topics include conducting in more complex meters (e.g. 5/4, 7/4); score preparation, enhanced musical interpretation, phrasing, and vocal production through conducting gestures; proper choral conducting techniques and body stance; interpretation of simple through complex part music in different styles; and more advanced rehearsal techniques.
Texts: Repertoire for the class will be assigned in first day of class and will include music
that teachers are currently working on with their ensembles.
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Kodály Level II Pedagogy, Materials and Thesis
Charlyn Bethell, Instructor
Wed 6:00-8:00pm
2 Credits: $1150
Non-credit: $820
Spring Semester Only: Feb. 8, 15, 20, Mar. 7, 14, 28, Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 17, 23, Make up May 30
Teacher preparation makes learning music not only more effective for children but a more joyful experience for all involved. This course will review and expand on the principles of the Kodaly methodology--specifically the sequential teaching of music skills and the use of an organized body of music literature, mostly from the folk tradition, as a foundation for musical literacy. It will provide pedagogical methods and materials for realizing these principles. Participants will learn approximately fifty songs and games from a multicultural folk tradition as well as some art music from the classical canon. Strategies for integrating movement and folk dance sequentially into music classes will be introduced, based on Education through Movement (Phyllis S. Weikart). Specific course topics will include: readiness techniques; the exploitation of different learning styles among children through the preparation, presentation, and practice of rhythmic and melodic concepts and elements; lesson planning firmly based on child development; short and long term planning; assessment; basic song leading; teaching chorus and recorder from a singing classroom perspective; and approaches to integrating the nine standards from the national frameworks for the arts. Participants will analyze and memorize songs, continue to develop their music retrieval system (thesis), and create a pedagogy unit. Participants will observe classes being taught using this approach, both in a general music/solfège context and a choral rehearsal situation.
Texts: Bradford: Sing It Yourself: 220 Pentatonic American Folk Songs; Bolkovac and Johnson: 150 Rounds and Canons. Let’s Sing Together by Denise Bacon, Kodály Weave Vols. I-II-III by Mary Epstein & Jonathan Rappaport, Song Retrieval by Flo Lunde 2007 edition (plus other Level I texts).
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Kodály Level II Musicology - Hispanic/Latino Folk and Art Music
Faith Knowles, Instructor
Tue: Time TBA
1 credit (14 hrs): $575
Non-credit: $410
Inquire: mary.epstein@necmusic.edu
No Pre-requisite
Spring Semester Only: April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Make up May 30
Canciones, Juegos y Ideas Pedagogícas para Maestros y Sus Estudiantes: Songs: Games and Pedagogical Ideas for teachers to use with their students. Using song and game materials rooted in Hispanic and Latino Cultures, Faith Knowles, a New Englander, will actively show teachers that they too can learn and teach in the Spanish idiom. Special attention will be given to music education techniques based in the Kodály philosophy. Supplemental classes will address folk music by native Guadalajara Mexican musician Rosalba Solis' first hand musical and cultural experiences and Zaira Meneses, an NEC graduate from Veracruz, Mexico, and art music by young Roosevelt University faculty/composer Dr. Nomi Epstein in a study of ritual and primitivism through the lens of composition. Dr Peter Thompson of Roger Williams University will offer History and Cultural information.
Required Texts: Vamos a Cantar: 230 Latino and Hispanic Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play by Faith Knowles, collector and editor; Study Score and CD-"Sensemaya"-Mexican Symphonic Tone Poem by Silvestre Revueltas. Texts may be purchased at the first class.
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Kodály Level II Chorus
1 Credit: $575
Date/Time TBA
This requirement must be satisfied by participating in either of these choirs with permission of the conductors:
1. NEC College Choir conducted by Erica Washburn
2. Coro Allegro conducted by David Hodgkins
Kodály Advanced Solfège
Gabór Virágh, Instructor
7 Thur: Time 6:00 – 8:00 pm
1 credit (15 hrs): $575
Non-credit: $410
Inquire: mary.epstein@necmusic.edu
No Pre-requisite
Spring Semester Only: February 2, 9, 16, (vacation) March 1, 8, 15, 22; snow days 3/ 29,
April 5.
Designed for those who just can’t stop studying with Gábor Virágh Boot camp solfege expands beyond regular Level III experiences focusing on chromaticism, harmonic progressions, multiple clefs, music so beautiful it makes you weak in the knees. This option is for those have earned a Kodály Music Teaching Certificate but is open to others who already have very strong solfège sight-singing skills.
Texts: Repertoire to be announced on first day of class.
Kodály Level IV: Song Collection and Retrieval System
Online Course
Jonathan Rappaport, Instructor
Dates TBA
2 credits (28 hrs): $1150
Non-credit: $820
Pre-requisite is Level II Kodály Certificate
Spring 2012
This course will be primarily an independent-study project under the supervision of one of KMI's master instructors. Class members will work with the instructor and classmates predominantly online through web conferencing and email, with the bulk of the work being accomplished independently. The goal of the course is to develop a personal song collection and retrieval system that will enable a teacher to quickly access applicable teaching materials for nearly any element, concept, or skill area. Each participant will have a minimum of 125 songs and pieces of music (pre-approved by the instructor) relevant to one's personal teaching situation analyzed and filed alphabetically into a song collection. Every song or piece of music will then also be entered into an extensive retrieval system notebook, or via a computerized database, according to dozens of musical, pedagogical, cultural, and interdisciplinary categories.
Required texts and materials: Good Internet and e-mail access; basic computer skills.
Texts: Lund, Research and Retrieval ($25); Epstein & Rappaport, The Kodály Teaching Weave II: Song Analysis Forms and Definitions ($7.00); Rappaport, The Kodály Teaching Weave III: Song Retrieval Notebook ($59.95). Participants are expected to have several quality folk music collections from previous Kodály courses, such as 150 American Folk Songs; Sail Away; Step It Down; My Singing Bird; Sing It Yourself.
Materials: Several large three-ring binders; optional: plastic inserts for each analyzed song.
2011-09-28
DIZZY GILLESPIE