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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
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 […]
Off The Podium: Teaching Modes with Solfège
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 […]
Off The Podium: The Legacy of Guido d’Arezzo
continued from Solfège: Part 1: The Joy of Solfège Solfège: Part 2 The Legacy of Guido d’Arezzo Solfège is a practical method for teaching sight-singing (singing music from written notation). Each note of the diatonic scale is assigned a solfège syllable. This practice is called solmization. Solfège is the oldest and most widely used […]
Off The Podium: The Joy of Solfège
This week and in weeks to come I will be sharing this introduction to the ancient method of solfège with the ChoralNet community. The series has accumulated more than 15,000 views on Off The Podium since originally published in 2015, and when it was run in its entirety in my Choral Director magazine column over […]