Music Literacy: More Than Simply Notes on a Page!

Helping students/singers become musically literate is central to the school and church music curriculum. This workshop will focus on implementing a sound before symbol approach to teaching music literacy resulting in independent musicians rather than savvy symbol decoders.

Working from the premise that students learn musical skills in much the same order as they do language skills, participants will explore how we 'learn' music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading (translating notation into sound) and writing (translating sound into notation). The pedagogy also includes a sequence of instructions that results in a strong link between sound and notation.

J.W. Pepper is proud to provide reading session materials for this event!

Link to more information or to the event registration: https://www.flagler.edu/summer-music-education-institute