Happy Spring!
This Waldorf website has changed my life for the better as a vocal music teacher. This philosophy of music education embodies all major music approaches into a simple and streamlined format. When you visit the site, you are immediately presented with songs that are described as "rounds"( meaning to sing the same tune at separate start times in an ensemble). Students in my beginning and advanced choirs are being exposed to age appropriate repertoire content in a fun and sequential display. First, they make fantastic warm ups, as they are written in a singable range. Next they are simply notated that students can decode them easily with proper guidance. Lastly they are recorded and accessible for students to hear a piano synthesizer play the melody in a round. For someone like me (a teacher that regularly uses technology) this tool is a free online curriculum source meant for students of all stages in development. I can upload the files to me grade level folders on google drive and pull them up throughout the various units to introduce and reinforce content in an authentic way. This is a worthy site for all to browse: Alphabetical Index of Rounds: School Songs
Musically,
Elia Sophia Reif
No comments:
Post a Comment