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FAME Teacher Trainer Lindsay Jackson talks with Missy about First Steps in Music, Dr. Feierabend’s curriculum to help young students become Tuneful, Beautiful, and Artful. Hear what, in particular, this master teacher loves about First Steps.

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Resources featuring today’s guest:
First Steps in Music for Kindergarten and First Grade In Action
Tree Dance Move It!
Feierabend Fundamentals

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Missy and John continue talking about CS Upper Levels, this time talking about the success John had using CS with his high school choirs as well as with his undergraduate music students. Then, John talks about the development of a line of choral music easily accessible music for the unauditioned choir.

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Dr. Feierabend joins Missy again, this time to talk about the new revision of the Upper Levels of Conversational Solfege. In Part One of their discussion, John touches on the progression from Book 2 of Conversational Solfege with its focus on Tonic and Dominant harmonic support to Book 3 where he begins to introduce Subdominant. They also talk about what true pentatonic songs are (and aren’t) as well as what Kodaly called “the musical mother tongue” and what that means (and doesn’t mean) in America.

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In the final installment of the series of conversations with Sister Lorna from Fall 2019, the discussion begins with the difficult but important topic of what to do about music with racist origins or backgrounds and then moves on to ask what constitutes American folk music, as well as how to be more inclusive of students in modern music classroom.

Bio of Today’s Guest

Silver Lake College Kodaly Summer Graduate Music Program

Folkdancing book Missy referenced at the end of the episode

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In Part 1, we left Sister Lorna on the tarmac in the Ukraine as she was desperately trying to get to Hungary after being in Russia, listen to hear what happened next. You’ll also hear Dr. Zemke discuss first meeting Dr. Feierabend when he was her graduate student at Silver Lake College, and share a bit about her Lovenotes prenatal music program.

Bio of Today’s Guest

Silver Lake College Kodaly Summer Graduate Music Program

Folkdancing book Missy referenced at the end of the episode

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Missy gets to know Dr. Zemke, or Sister Lorna as she is affectionately known by the many people whose lives she has impacted. Hear about her life as a young girl in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin all the way through the crucial 6 months she spent collecting data and observing music classrooms in Budapest, Hungary during her doctoral work.

Bio of Today’s Guest

Silver Lake College Kodaly Summer Graduate Music Program

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Missy talks with FAME Teacher Trainer Rachel Grimsby, PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, about Universal Design for Learning a lens through which music educators can examine how to teach students with disabilities.

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Resources mentioned in the episode:

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Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn

Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice 1st Edition by Meyer, Rose, Gordon

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Have you wondered how, exactly, you should get going with the Arioso part of First Steps in Music? You’ll get a TON to think about in this extra long episode with Dr. Feierabend! Also, at the end of the episode, Missy lists the names of each member of the FAME Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

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Listen to Part 2 of the conversation between Missy and Connie Greenwood about things to think about when doing parent/child classes for infants and toddlers.

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