Off The Podium

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

A closer look at “Personent Hodie”, a medieval Christmas carol.

A Nashville School of the Arts project to learn as many choruses as possible from the Mozart Requiem in four...

Part 4 in Walter Bitner's series on teaching solfege.

This is a simple but somewhat thorough description of the syllables for movable do solfège with la-based minor and how...

Solfège, a practical method for teaching sight-singing, and the oldest and most widely used system for teaching the ability to read...

This time of year, my thoughts to the wonders of solfège.

By Walter Bitner I urge every teacher who works with groups of children to do this. At the beginning of...

Or why you shouldn’t always tell your students the truth.

Songs about the seasons help children connect with the natural world.

The Count is a concentration exercise - a group activity - that I used with my student ensembles in the...

Something fundamentally different about the process of music-making is of immense value.