The Kodály Music Institute at New England Conservatory offers graduate credits in four levels of increasingly complex skill development in musicianship, musicology, conducting, and pedagogy. This course is appropriate for college performance majors, music teachers, solfege instructors, choral conductors, church musicians, curriculum supervisors and arts administrators. Participants who successfully complete 18-20 credits in our three or four level graduate program are awarded the KMI Certificate for Music Teaching, which partially fulfills Massachusetts licensure requirements. Courses are offered both during the summer through NEC's Summer School (Levels I-IV) and during the academic year through NEC's School of Continuing Education (Levels I and II in alternating years).
The Kodály Music Institute offers a Certificate for Music Teaching that is nationally endorsed by the Organization of American Kodály Educators (O.A.K.E.) and internationally recognized by the International Society of Kodály Educators (I.K.S.).
Kodály Music Institute offers Master's Degree Programs jointly with:
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - Fifteen (15) graduate credits may be applied toward the Master's Program in Music Education with a Kodály Emphasis.
- Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA - Eighteen (18) graduate credits may be applied toward and constitute for half of the Master's Degree in Education with a Kodály Emphasis.
Non-credit Option For Career Advancement And Teaching Licensure Renewal:
- Professional development points (PDPs) are awarded for good attendance, full participation, and successful completion of all coursework, homework and projects: 90 PDPs for Levels I, II and III; 60 PDPs for Level IV, and 30 PDPs each for TOK, BAKE workshops, Musicology, South African, or Post Refresher courses.
- PLEASE NOTE that as of 2009 music teachers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Education System are required to earn 150 PDPs every 5 years in order to renew their music teacher's license. 80% of the 150 PDPs towards recertification need to be in the field of music.
In 2009-10, the Kodaly Music Institute will offer courses in Level II or higher.
The Kodály program is a subsidized program. All students taking courses or pursuing a certificate program in the 2009-10 academic year receive an automatic 50% tuition remission which is the reflected tuition amount in the course catalog.
To register, complete and submit Applicant Information Form and Registration Form.
For more information, please contact the program director, Mary Epstein.
For more information on the Kodaly Music Institute for the Summer Session and Vocal Vacation, view our Summer Session webpage.
2009-2010 Kodály Music Institute Offerings
Kodály Level II Choral Conducting
David Hodgkins, Instructor
7 Tu: 4:30-6:30 pm
Sept. 22, 29; Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3
1 credit (14 hrs): $300
Course Code XADL 607 - No pre-requisites. Repertoire to be determined by the instructor on first day of classes.
This course will consist of small-group conducting classes. Topics include how to prepare and memorize a score, correct conducting patterns in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 plus more complex meters (5/4, 7/4, etc.), proper choral conducting techniques and body stance, interpretation of unison through complex part music in different styles, and basic rehearsal techniques. Enrollment limited to 10 participants. Texts: TBA (Note: students may purchase at the first class.)
Kodály Level II Pedagogy: Materials
Charlyn Bethell, Instructor
13 Tu: 4:30-6:45 pm
Nov. 10, 17, 23; Dec. 1, 8, 15, 2009
Mar 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Apr 6, 13, 2010
2 credits (28 hrs): $600
Course Code XADL 609 - Pre-requisite is Level I Pedagogy: Materials
This course will review and expand the principles of the Kodály methodology—specifically the sequential teaching of music skills and the use of an organized body of music literature, both folk and classical, as a foundation for musical literacy—and provide pedagogical methods and materials for realizing these principles. Participants will learn approximately fifty songs and games from a multicultural folk tradition as well as art music from the classical canon. Strategies for integrating movement and folk dance into music classes will be introduced. Specific course topics will include: readiness techniques; the exploitation of different learning styles among children in the preparation, presentation, and practice of rhythmic and melodic concepts; lesson planning firmly based on child development; short- and long-term planning; assessment; basic song leading and accompanying; the teaching of chorus; the teaching of recorder; and approaches to integrating the nine standards from the national frameworks for the arts. Participants will analyze and memorize songs, continue to develop their music retrieval system (thesis), and create pedagogy units. Teacher preparation makes learning music not only more effective for children but a more joyful experience for all involved.
Required Texts: Bradford: Sing It Yourself: 220 Pentatonic American Folk Songs; Bolkovac and Johnson: 150 Rounds and Canons. Kodály Weave Vol I and Vol II by Mary Epstein & Jonathan Rappaport, Song Retrieval by Flo Lunde, 2007 edition; Let Us Sing Together by Denise Bacon (Note: students may purchase texts at the first class).
Kodály Level II: Solfège
Pamela Wood, Instructor
12 classes, Tu and Th: 5:30-7:00 pm
Jan 5, 7, 12 14 19, 21, 26, 28; Feb. 2, 4, 9, 11, 2010 (snow dates: Feb. 16 & 18)
1 credit (18 hrs): $300
Course Code XADL 608 - Pre-requisite is Level I Solfege
This class includes sight-singing, dictation, transposition, analysis, improvisation and ear training through the medium of the human voice. Both movable "do" solmization and fixed, absolute letter names are used to develop relative and perfect pitch. Training begins with unison pentatonic, diatonic, and chromatic melodies and leads to complex part-music that is modulatory in character. The foci of this class will be: in-tune unison, solo and part singing; relative solmization, absolute pitch names, and rhythm names; pentatonic, diatonic major and minor and modal systems; sight-singing and musical memory; rhythmic, melodic and intervallic dictation; stick and staff notation, conducting, hand signs; chromaticism; G, F, and C clefs; modulations and harmonic progressions. Musical material includes folksongs through masterworks of all periods and styles, and includes many of Kodály’s composed exercises. All skills are developed simultaneously through live music making and written theory.
Required Texts: 46 Two Part Folk Songs by Denise Bacon; Juilliard Repertory Library Vocal Volume 3; 333 Elementary Reading Exercises, Bicinia Hungarica, 77 Two-part Exercises and Tricinia by Zoltán Kodály; Sail Away ed. Eleanor G. Locke; 150 American Folk Songs ed. Erdei/Komlos; Classical Canons by Antal Molnar, Octavos; Reading & Writing Materials by Alfred John Young; Turtle Dovearr Denise Bacon SSA, "The Singers" (Three Children's Songs) by Ralph Vaughan Williams Unison, Done Made My Vow to the Lord arr. John W. Work SATB.
Required Octavos: Three Voices Set One by Alfred John Young; Turtle Dove arr Denise Bacon SSA, "The Singers"(Three Children's Songs) by Ralph Vaughn Williams Unison; There is a Balm In Gilead by William Dawson (female chorus); Great Day 2-Pat by Rollo Dilworth; Fences SSA by Anrde Thomas
Tools: A-440 tuning fork, manuscript paper, pencils with eraser. Note: students may purchase texts at the first class.
Kodály Level II: Saturday Workshop Series
Kodály Level II: Saturday Workshop Series
Margie Callaghan, Instructor
3 Sa: 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Dates: Oct. 3, Oct. 24, & Nov. 21, 2009
1 credit (15 hrs): $300 (See below for credit fulfillment requirements.)
Course Code XADL 605 - No Pre-requisite
This Workshop series is for the novice and the professional spanning the teaching profession in performance and the classroom. The series is a joint collaboration among the Boston Area Kodály Educators, The Kodály Music Institute, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the American Choral Director’s Association and the New England Orff Association.
Our internationally recognized clinicians this year are:
Oct. 3, 2009-Elaine Quilichini, Artistic Director, Calgary Children's & Women's Choirs (14th Annual Choral Symposium-Vocal Vacation Reunion Celebration)
Location for October 3 workshop: Williams School, 141 Grove Street, Auburndale (Newton) MA 02466
Oct. 24, 2009-Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, clinicians-Teaching Traditional Dance and Singing Games to Children
Location for Oct. 24th workshop: Estabrook School, 117 Grove Street, Lexington MA 02420
Nov. 21, 2009-Constance Foss More, President, Kodály Society of Canada (Weaving Elementary Choir Rehearsals into General Classroom Lessons)
Location: Williams School, 141 Grove Street, Auburndale (Newton) MA 02466
BAKE Workshop Reflections
Requirement for earning 1 credit: Three 1-2 page papers, double-spaced.
Please comment on what you learned from each workshop as well as how you are planning to incorporate this knowledge into your own teaching. All papers must be submitted via email (margarettubbs@hotmail.com).
Please note: Late papers will receive a lower grade.
Due dates are as follows:
Reflection 1 due by October 18, 2009
Reflection 2 due by November 8, 2009
Reflection 3 due by November 29, 2009
Kodály Level II Musicology: African-American Folk & Art Music
Betty Hillmon, Jonathan Rappaport, and Pamela Wood, Instructors
Dates: 2 Tuesdays January 12 & 19, 2010
Times: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
1 credit (14 hrs): $300
Non-credit through Teachers as Scholars Program: www.teachersasscholars.org
For credit requires a written project.
Inquire: mary.epstein@necmusic.edu
Course Code XADL 610 – No Pre-requisite
Participants will study the canon of African American folk music through performers and performance styles, historical context, and musical characteristics of melody, rhythm, and form. Participants will also study African American art music utilizing similar categories to investigate the work of selected African American composers. A strong emphasis will be placed on discovering pedagogical uses of this music for the classroom (elementary, secondary, tertiary). Assignments will include transcribing folk music to gain a clear understanding of performance style. Research projects will make use of the Spaulding and Firestone Libraries and/or the Smithsonian Global Sound website. Bring your staff notebook and wear comfortable clothing so we can "One, two, three and-a-zing, zing, zing" down the line.
Texts: Step It Down by Bessie Jones & Bess Hawes Lomax: University of Georgia Press, 1972; Put Your Hand on your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands-Audio CD album (Feb. 13, 2001); The Music of Black Americans by Dr. Eileen Southern: 3rd edition 1997, W.W. Norton Publishers.
Kodály Level II Musicology: Hispanic/Latino Folk & Art Music: Songs, Games, and Pedagogical Ideas for Teachers to Use With Their Students
Faith Knowles and Dr. Nomi Epstein, Instructors
7 Tu: 5:30-7:30 pm
Apr 27; May 4, 11, 18, 25; June 1, 8, 2010
1 Credit (14 hrs): $300
Course Code XADL 611-No Pre-requisite
Canciones, Juegos y Ideas Pedagogícas para Maestros y Sus Estudiantes: Songs, Games and Pedagogical Ideas for teachers to use with their students. Using song and game materials rooted in Hispanic and Latino Cultures, Faith Knowles, a New Englander, will actively show teachers that they too can learn and teach in the Spanish idiom. Special attention will be given to music education techniques based in the Kodály philosophy. Supplemental classes will address folk music by native Guatemalan musician Rosalba Solis' first hand musical and cultural experiences and art music by young Roosevelt University faculty/composer Dr. Nomi Epstein in a study of ritual and primitivism through the lens of composition. Visiting Musician/Artist/Performers/Historians to be arranged.
Required Texts: Vamos a Cantar: 230 Latino and Hispanic Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play by Faith Knowles, collector and editor; Study Score and CD-"Sensemaya"-Mexican Symphonic Tone Poem by Silvestre Revueltas. Texts available for purchase on the first day of class.
Kodály Level III: Solfège
Gabór Virágh, Instructor
12 classes, Tu and Th: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Jan 5, 7, 12 14 19, 21, 26, 28; Feb. 2, 4, 9, and 11, 2010 (snow dates: Feb. 16 & 18)
1 credit (18 hrs): $300
This is the third course in ear training and sight singing for using Kodály methodologies. Listening and performing skills will be developed using pentatonic, modal, diatonic, and chromatic excerpts from the music literature. Course work will include basic teaching techniques and activities used in Kodály instruction. Each area of instruction listed below will include sight singing, performance drills, and the acquisition of recognition/dictation skills.
- Rhythmic work will include a review and more difficult work in simple and compound meters with conducting, syncopation, asymmetric and changing meters. Melodic work will include a continuation of pentatonic major and minor scales and intervals.
- Church modes, melodies with chromatic alterations: as non-harmonic tones, as secondary chord functions, as modal mixture. The course will include an introduction to twentieth-century melodic idioms.
- Harmonic work will include: cadences and more elaborated chord progressions, seventh chords in root position and inversions, secondary dominants and secondary sevenths chords, modal mixture chords and an introduction to the Neapolitan-sixth chord and augmented-sixth chords. Pedagogical tools will include: further hand-sign work, two-part hand-sign technique, memorization of two- and three-part canons, use of different modal sol-fa system, modulation: sol-fa changing strategies, other appropriate games, activities, and exercises to promote memory, coordination, inner hearing, and accurate intonation.
Required Texts: Oxford Sight Singing Volume 5, Classical Canons by Antal Molnar, Bach Book #1 by Erzsébet Hegyi (EMB Publisher). Additional texts to be determined by the instructor after the class begins.
Kodály Level IV: Song Collection and Retrieval System
Online Course
Jonathan Rappaport, Instructor
14 Tu: 4:30-6:30 pm
Starts January 26
2 credits (28 hrs): $600
Course Code XADL 553 Pre-requisite is Level I Kodály Certificate Pedagogy Materials
This course will be primarily an independent-study project under the supervision of one of KMI's master instructors. Class members will work with the instructor and classmates predominantly online through web conferencing and email, with the bulk of the work being accomplished independently. The goal of the course is to develop a personal song collection and retrieval system that will enable a teacher to quickly access applicable teaching materials for nearly any element, concept, or skill area. Each participant will have a minimum of 125 songs and pieces of music (pre-approved by the instructor) relevant to one's personal teaching situation analyzed and filed alphabetically into a song collection. Every song or piece of music will then also be entered into an extensive retrieval system notebook, or via a computerized database, according to dozens of musical, pedagogical, cultural, and interdisciplinary categories.
Required texts and materials: Good Internet and e-mail access; basic computer skills.
Texts: Lund, Research and Retrieval ($25); Epstein & Rappaport, The Kodály Teaching Weave II: Song Analysis Forms and Definitions ($7.00); Rappaport, The Kodály Teaching Weave III: Song Retrieval Notebook ($59.95). Participants are expected to have several quality folk music collections from previous Kodály courses, such as 150 American Folk Songs; Sail Away; Step It Down; My Singing Bird; Sing It Yourself.
Materials: Several large three-ring binders; optional: plastic inserts for each analyzed song.
BIG SING 2010
BIG SING – WEST 2010
The Annual Urban Children’s Choir Festival
A non-competitive Youth and Children’s Choir Festival
Saturday, April 10th
CONCERT 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: St Mark’s School,
25 Marlboro Road, Southborough, MA 01772-1299
Directions: http://www.stmarksschool.org/contact_us/directions.aspx
ADJUDICATOR: Tom Berryman, Music Director, St. Mark’s School
BIG SING – BOSTON 2010
The Annual Urban Children’s Choir Festival
A non-competitive Youth and Children’s Choir Festival
CONCERT Tuesday, April 13th 6:30 – 8:00 pm
LOCATION: United Parish, 210 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
Conveniently located near Coolidge Corner!
ADJUDICATOR: David Hodgkins, KMI faculty and Coro Allegro’s Artistic Director
Choir Application Fee: $50
Deadline: Feb. 27, 2010
Choirs from urban after school, community, school, and churches may apply.
Singers aged 7-18 are welcomed.
Each choir should prepare 2-3 songs lasting 5-8 minutes.
All choirs will perform jointly for a concluding festival piece.
Application To Follow...
Links:
http://www.massacda.org/
2010-01-28
VIRGIL THOMSON