continued from Solfège: Part 2: The Legacy of Guido d’Arezzo Solfège: Part 3 Teaching Music with Solfège This is a simple but somewhat thorough description of the syllables for movable do solfège with la-based minor and how I applied them in my work as a teacher. I do not claim this method as […]
Walter Bitner
Off The Podium: Unsolicited Advice
This week on Off The Podium we will take a break from our regularly scheduled solfège episode for a collection of well-intentioned, wholesome advice. I hope this is helpful. It’s May, and commencement season. As schools around the country struggle with how to honor their graduates and send them off to their next adventures while […]
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 […]
Off The Podium: Keep Calm and Stay Home
I have read the New York Times every morning for much of my adult life, although lately there have been mornings when I have put this activity off until later in the day…there just hasn’t been much good news. It’s difficult to find articles that aren’t directly or indirectly related to our current shared situation. […]
Off The Podium: Silence
Emptiness at the Heart of Music So often when we speak or write about music – when we practice, when we listen or perform – the focus of our attention is on the notes being played or sung. These notes, their pitches and rhythmic accuracy, the articulation and tone with which they are produced, how […]