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Music Bucknell Music Students had Amazing Opportunities in 2015.
Music Education Research in Australia Studying Music in Bali with the Gamelan
Working Closely with Artists on a World Class Jazz Series Debuting the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
World Premiere by the Bucknell Opera Theater So Can You.
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH CONCENTRATIONS IN: Performance | Contemporary Composition | Critical/Cultural Studies
BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN: Music Education | Vocal Performance
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the highest form of musical thinking. This is why Arioso is such a vital piece of the Musical Workout puzzle. Again con- sidering the language acquisition paral- lels, we hope that once our children have amassed a very large array of vocabulary words, they are able to create multiple in- teresting sentences. In Arioso, the teacher may start by first modeling what it is to create original tunes. Eventually, she will “dialogue” musically with the students individually on humming or neutral syl- lables, then move on to students creating original tunes for words that are already familiar to them, like nursery rhymes. The crowning point, and certainly one of the most artful components of a First Steps lesson, is when students are able to freely create both tune and text in a giv- en context such as delivering a pretend weather forecast, or singing with their friend about all the different things they did over a break.
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part of the Musical Workout they are in the more purposefully beatful por- tion of their experience. During these final parts children will do fingerplays, action songs and circle games to repre- sent form and expression in music. A highlight for many practitioners is the time where they move expressively with their students to outstanding classical music that comes from either of Feiera- bend’s amazing “Move It!” DVDs. These DVDs were done in conjunction with Peggy Lyman, a former dancer with the Martha Graham dance company. Stu- dents may follow along with the DVDs themselves during a class, or teachers can learn the dances and then lead their students through the movements before moving on to the Beat Motion portions of the lesson.
Though it is officially listed in the middle of the workout, many teachers
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choose to end their lessons with the Song- tale portion of the workout. While there are several magical moments throughout any given First Steps lesson, the Song- tale time is one of the most enchanting of them all. As with a parent reading a book aloud to a child, music teachers use this part of the lesson to sing for the students using wonderful songs that are often accompanied by beautiful picture books. Closing the lesson this way pro- vides a necessary breath and “cool down” after all the music making that has just taken place, and has the added benefit of demonstrating how much we care for our students. The hope is that these stu- dents, one day tuneful, beatful, and art- ful themselves, will be sitting down with their own children and grandchildren singing them a story! If I haven’t yet completely convinced
you about how wonderful “First Steps in Music” is for your youngest students, I hope I’ve at least whet your appetite to find out more. If you have any questions, please look at the homepage for the Fei- erabend Association for Music Educa- tion at
http://www.feierabendmusic.org, or at
http://www.giamusic.com/mu- sic_education/
johnfeierabend-main.cfm where you can also peruse many of Fei- erabend’s materials. You can also join the conversation at our bustling Facebook page, Feierabend Fundamentals. I would greatly encourage you to take a course or workshop with Feierabend himself, or with one of FAME’s fantastic Endorsed Teacher Trainers. These courses run pri- marily during the Spring and Summer and can be found on the FAME website. I hope you will join me next time as
I look into Feierabend’s notational liter- acy program, “Conversational Solfege!”
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