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This is where we considered the "bones" or structure of the process, giving a larger context to the "meat" or content of various activities, songs, stories, or other materials.
We began by analyzing the lessons experienced through the rest of the day, and pinpointing key principles of the approach -- music subjects (beat, rhythm, etc.), Dalcroze principles (theory follows practice, improvisation), and "tools" or eurhythmics subjects (concentration, coordination, social integration, etc.). We looked carefully at sequencing, bridging, and the choices the teacher made along the way ("Why did I do it that way? How else might I have done that?")
We established a loose "formula" or outline on which to base a lesson plan, and we began to plug the results of the "Creative Lab" into that structure. (Along the way, modifications and entirely new ideas cropped up for some participants' topics, concepts, songs, etc., as they saw their creations in the context of a teaching sequence.)
After participants had created songs, established focal music concepts for lessons from their songs, and started creating stories, we began structuring the process for getting from "here" to "there." I suggested ways to layer and bridge ideas involving aural perception, rhythmic movement, singing, improvising, playing, reading, notating, along with an array of extra-musical skills (the eurhythmics subjects). We put those into layered movement activities and optional "theory games" to bring the original song toward the final story, establishing multiple levels of experience and understanding in the process. Within the framework of our outline, we found steps along a process moving from "here" to "there."
Our last Pedagogy session today (Friday) pulled everything together in every way I'd hoped for, and in no way I could have forseen. The participants in the class brought themselves to the work they did this week, and found ways to bring the week's work to themselves, in a round discussion I'm still thinking of this evening. So the conclusion of the week -- in general, and as exhibited in our "final hour" from my point of view -- deserve a separate thread, to follow.... |
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