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Author: missclarinetist
Date: 2006-02-17 16:18
I'm just starting to learn how to teach high school music theory at college. I came up with the idea of teaching solfege. Are there any great teaching tools, creative ideas I can come up with for my lesson plan? I really want to use the solfege idea for my attention getter from "The Sound of Music" theme .. Do a deer .. Re a drop of golden sun .. etc. Obiviously, I forgot the whole entire theme song, but that would be great if somebody knew it. What else would be interesting to teach solfege other than visuals?
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Author: Dori
Date: 2006-02-17 20:38
Do - A deer, a female deer
Re - A drop of golden sun
Mi - A name I call myself
Fa - A long, long way to run
So - A needle pulling thread
La - A note to follow So
Ti - A drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (do, do, do)
Hope this helps.
Dori
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2006-02-17 21:15
How were you taught solfege? There might be some clues there.
There is such a wealth of information out there. Start with the Kodaly basics and go from there. I don't think high school kids would be too fond of "do re mi" from the Sound of Music, but maybe that's just the situation with kids I know. Are you teaching from scratch to people who've never encountered the concept before? If that were the case, you don't teach the entire scale at once. You would begin the a descending minor third, usually (so-mi). Music texts have their songs indexed such that you can find the songs that contain this interval.
Are you teaching reading as well, and handsigns? Handsigns are learned quickly and you can make games whereby you divide the room and have two different pitches going on at once, based on the signals you give with your two hands.
Sue Tansey
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