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Off The Podium

Off The Podium: Inspiration, Part 1

September 8, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

In the contemporary climate of data-driven education, you don’t hear much about inspiration in the popular rhetoric about music education and its role and purpose in the lives of children. But in fact the music teacher’s most important responsibility is to inspire her students. Inspiration is difficult to assess and, if acknowledged at all, often […]

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Off The Podium: Summer 2020

June 23, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

Saturday was the first day of summer, and Sunday was Father’s Day. There is no doubt about it: summer is here and it promises to be a long, hot one. The spring of 2020 brought calamitous societal changes: the first global pandemic in a century; the greatest economic crash since the depression nearly a century […]

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Off The Podium: Solfège with Amadeus

June 16, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

continued from Solfège: Part 5: Solfège Exercises   Solfège: Part 6 Solfège with Amadeus   In January of 2012 I decided to teach all of my high school choirs at Nashville School of the Arts as many choruses from the Mozart Requiem as we could learn in four months and to then perform them en masse at […]

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Off The Podium: Solfège Exercises

June 9, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

continued from Solfège: Part 4: Teaching Modes with Solfège Solfège: Part 5 Solfège Exercises This episode in my series of posts on Solfège recounts examples of solfège exercises I used in high school choir rehearsals. My usual practice was to begin every choir rehearsal with physical stretches followed by vocal warm-ups and solfège exercises (or […]

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Off The Podium: The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed

June 2, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

This week on Off The Podium we will take a break from our regularly scheduled solfège episode once again. As protests erupt in cities across the country against police violence and inequity, I felt it was best to use this column to share something that may help further understanding, compassion, and hopefully – change. For […]

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Off The Podium: Teaching Modes with Solfège

May 26, 2020 by Walter Bitner Leave a Comment

continued from Solfège: Part 3: Teaching Music with Solfège   Solfège: Part 4 Teaching Modes with Solfège   Ecclesiastical (Church) Modes In addition, students in the advanced choirs (both which primarily sang early music) were required to be able to sing the modes on solfège syllables. Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian Ionian Mode is […]

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