qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21
• Kodály philosophy Highly sequenced pedagogical methodology
How to integrate all the sequences into lessons?
• Concepts Carefully laid out in a logical sequence - pre-school to advanced
adult students of music.
• Repertoire Songs and musical games are selected carefully, according to
children’s developing abilities and interests.
• Skills Each concept is taught using a sequence of skills:
• 3 stages of learning Each concept is taught with careful consideration of the
pedagogical stages of:
▪ Each concept goes through all three stages
▪ Time frame of 3 - 4 months
▪ Developing alongside other concepts at differing stages
▪ One concept uses 3-7 minutes of the lesson
E.G.:
Kindergarten – steady beat = practice at same time as matching pitch = preparation stage
Grade 4 – tika tika = practice at the same time as fa = preparation
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation,
presentation or practice?)
Concept? Skill?
1. I’m a little Dutch girl, Dutch girl,
Dutch girl.
I’m a little Dutch girl, far, far away.
2. I’m a little Dutch boy…
3. Go away, I hate you…
4. Why do you hate me?
5. Because you stole my
necklace…
6. Here is your necklace…
7. Now we’re getting married…
8. Now we’re having babies…
9. Now we’re getting older…
10. Now we’re dead and buried…
11. Now we’re little ghosties…
12. Now we’re dancing skeletons…
Line dance.
Boys and girls line up facing each other, paired up.
Verse1 – ‘girls’ skip forward and back twice while singing.
Verse 2 – ‘boys’ do the same
Verse 3 – ‘girls’ turn their backs on the boys and stomp foot
V 4. ‘boys’ appeal to girls, hands open
V5. ‘girls’ hands to neck
V6. ‘Boys’ hand a ‘necklace’ to their partner
V7. Link arms with partner and dance in a circle
V8. Rock a baby in arms
V9. One hand on aching back, one hand resting on walking stick
V10. Lie on the ground, arms on chest.
V11. Rise up and wave arms like a sneaky ghost
V12. Stiff arms and legs dance.
BOOM!
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BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation or
practice?)
Concept? Skill?
Step 1 - Students step the beat in a circle, tapping arms on sides to beat as well. Jump on the
BOOM. Sing it twice without stopping.
Step 2 – as Step 1, but jump and change direction on the BOOM, sing it four times without
stopping.
Step 3 – As Step 2, but sing repetition 2 and 4 in your thinking voice. BOOM is always out loud.
Step 4 – As Step 3, but vary which repetitions are sung in thinking voice
Step 5 – as Step 4, but work up to singing all four repetitions in thinking voice.
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation
or practice?)
Concept? Skill?
1. Four children stand in a square. Students 1 and 2 stand facing each other and hold both
hands. Students 3 and 4 stand facing each other, and hold hands over 1 and 2’s held
hands, making a cross of hands in the middle.
2. Partners rock forwards and backwards to the beat – not sideways! On the last phrase,
student 1 ducks under the nearest arms of students 3 and 4.
3. On the second singing of the song, sing ‘second old man’, and the second old man ducks
under the other joined arms of students 3 and 4. 1 and 2 are now both ‘in the well’.
4. On the third and fourth repetitions, sing ‘third’ and ‘fourth old man’, and the third and
fourth singers duck under the arms of students 1 and 2. Everybody is now ‘in the well’.
5. Escape the well in reverse order – 4,3,2,1.
6. Keep trying to rock forwards and backwards, even when you are all in the well!
1
4
2
3
1 4
2
3
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation or
practice?)
Concept? Skill?
Students stand in a circle, facing in. One child is ‘Charlie’. Charlie walks around the outside of the
circle, singing the first two measures of each phrase. ‘Charlie’ is echoed by the rest of the students.
On the final repetition of ‘me’, Charlie taps the student nearest to him/her, and runs away around the
outside of the circle, trying to beat that student to the spot in the circle that has just been left open.
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation
or practice?)
Concept? Skill?
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation
or practice?)
Concept? Skill?
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Grade? Learning stage?
(Preparation, presentation
or practice?)
Concept? Skill?
Students stand in a long line, holding hands, all facing the same direction. The student at one end
holds onto a door handle or something to stay ‘attached’. The student at the opposite end of the
line is the ‘Needle’. The Needle leads the rest of the line to the front of the line and goes under
the student’s arm that is ‘attached’. All student follow, until the attached student is pulled to face
the opposite direction with arms crossed across chest. The Needle then leads the line under that
student’s other arm and on up the line until all students are all ‘sewn up’.
qar\ssdr - there’s more to Kodály that just qsd!
BCMEA Conference 2017 – Saturday October 21 [email protected] or [email protected]
Summary of workshop activities:
More 6/8 suggestions
King of the Castle 6/8 L s m K-1 Hear / Sing /
Play
Everyone knows!
Skip to beat
The Ants go Marching 6/8 a\qaq K-1 Hear / Sing Counting song
Skip to beat
The Incy Wincy Spider 6/8 K-1 Hear / Sing /
Play
Finger play
Skip to beat
Farmer in the Dell 6/8 qar K-2 Hear / Sing /
Play
Play game
Clap rhythm
Row, Row, Row Your
Boat
6/8
qarssd 1-2
3-4
Hear / Sing /
Play
Row boats to the beat
Sing as a round
My Mother is a Baker 6/8 qar S,l,t,d 1-4 Play Hand clapping game,
Conduct in 2
Un Canadien Errant 6/8 S,drmfsl 4-6 Read All rhythmic phrases identical
Bibliography:
Song Concept Grades Skill Activity Dutch girl 6/8 Mrd K-2 Hear Play game, Audiate, Clap rhythm
Sally Go ‘Round the
Sun
6/8 ssd Dms 1-3 Sing
Play
Beat in feet
Audiate
Conduct in 2
Bucket of Water 6/8 fa 2-3 Derive How many sounds per beat?
Charlie over the Ocean 6/8 Mrd so, 2-3 Listening,
memory and
writing
Rhythm erase
Dashing Away with a
Smoothing Iron
6/8 S,t,drmfsl 4-6 Read New song prep
Sort rhythmic phrases
Analyse form
Scarborough fair 6/8 gcd fi 5-6 Create Rhythmic ostinato
The Thread Follows
the Needle
6/8
anacrusis
S,d
dmslfdrd
4-6 Create Rondo form improvisation
Brumfield, Susan. First, We Sing! Kodály-Inspired Teaching for the Music Classroom, Teaching
Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2014.
Choksy, Lois. The Kodály Method 1, Comprehensive Music Education. Upper Saddle River, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1999.
Choksy, Lois, Brummitt, David. 120 Singing Games and Dances for Elementary Schools. Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1987.
http://kodaly.hnu.edu/collection.cfm