Part Three is the Solfége or Pitch tool: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build is based on a premise. We are not the music makers. Our students are. So, are we teaching them songs? Or the tools used to build songs? So, what do we do if the students don’t know what the pitches sound like? Teach them how to figure it out!
The scaffolding began at birth. The audio library is more advanced than you think. Begin introducing both the sound and the sight… BUT… don’t let the sight get ahead of the sound AND the muscular coordination required to reproduce it fluently.
In Part 3, we dig out the first tool. Solfége. We want students to hear music happening, as fluently as language, in their head. And as Carol Krueger said wisely in episode 90, we want them to “be able to grab a score, and go sit under a tree and read it like it’s Moby Dick.” But how do we do this?
The secret is the sequence, the repetition and the QUESTIONS! The ones we ask, and eventually the ones they learn to ask.
Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself with your related ideas and experiences on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com Also, don’t forget to grab a reading rope for your classroom wall from the shop! Music Reading Rope
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