General Session: Prelude
HEAR, FEEL, MOVE, SING: GREAT REPERTOIRE FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-6
PART I
The purpose of this 2-hour plenary session is to explore music appropriate for developing young children’s experiential understanding of musical concepts while simultaneously developing their musical skills.
Particular attention will be on authentic children’s traditional oral repertoire, including rhymes, chants, singing games, and folk songs; art music examples from piano and orchestral literature will also be presented.
Participants will engage in activities designed to develop foundational musical skills such as finding and maintaining steady beat; matching pitch; singing in tune; listening; inner hearing; naming and performing comparatives; and expressive music performance.
Breakout Session
HEAR, FEEL, MOVE, SING: REAT REPERTOIRE FOR CHILDREN AGES 3-6
PART II
This session is a continuation of Hear, Feel, Move, Sing: Great Repertoire For Children Ages 3-6, Part I. Participants will learn additional repertoire as they investigate ways to plumb the depths of rhymes and songs so as to recycle repertoire within a spiral curriculum to address different pedagogic purposes.
Specific examples of the numerous functions a single piece can fulfill will be presented. Further emphasis will be on identifying curricular goals, concepts, and skills.
Bio
Jill Trinka, Ph.D., is well known by children, parents, and music educators as “a dynamic, winsome, and energetic teacher and performer.” Her performances bring new life to the musical and cultural treasures of American folk music as she accompanies herself on the dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, and banjo. She has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages: My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Me a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1996). These publications and her collaborative recordings with John Feierabend – Had a Little Rooster (2005), Old Joe Clark (2006), and There’s a Hole in the Bucket (2006) – are published by and available from GIA Music, Inc.
Dr. Trinka was a 1974-75 Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she studied Kodály philosophy and practice in music education. She has taught in public and private schools in IL, NY, CT, and TX, and was on the music education faculties at the University of Central Arkansas, the University of North Texas, and the University of St. Thomas, where she also served as director of Graduate Programs in Music Education.
Dr. Trinka holds a B.S. in music education from the University of Illinois, and Ph.D. in music education with secondary studies in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught in Kodály teacher education programs throughout the United States,and served as director of the Kodály Institute of Texas at the University of North Texas,the Kodály Certificate Program at Portland State University in Portland,OR,and the Kodály Institute at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She is a Past President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and received their Outstanding Educator Award in 2003. Jill was a contributing author to Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett’s Making Music,Grades 5-8.
Jill currently resides in Pawley’s Island,SC,where she sings in the Carolina Master Chorale and the Carolina Master Chorale Chamber Singers, teaches music education, world music, and elementary education courses at Coastal Carolina University, and conducts workshops for music educators throughout the United States. Her DVD Jill Trinka: The Bass Hall Children’s Concerts (Ft. Worth,TX) will be released by GIA Music in late 2011. She is currently working on Volume 5: Sing a Song of Sixpence, and a Christmas CD.