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Pierre Perron Resource Development Grant Abstracts

2020

Jennifer YM Lee - The aim of this project is to develop a choral resource following a Kodaly-inspired approach for adult learners.

Keli Brewer - This resource will provide educators with a sampling of music from the founding cultures of Cape Breton Island. Selections from the Mi’kmaq, Acadian, and Gaelic traditional music are presented within a brief cultural and historical context, including the background of the song and songwriter.

SINGING GAMES BY ANN OSBORNE SEYFFERT

• Table of Contents & Intro

• 1-17 Games

• 18-33 Games

• 34-57 Games

• Appendix A Singing Games Forms & Historical Functions

• Appendix B Data Analysis

• Appendix C Index of Patterns

CURRICULUM & VINTAGE RESOURCES

Short video introduction to the Archives: Circling Back, Fresh Ideas in Archive (pdf intro)

Resources from Nanaimo and Ladysmith British Columbia public schools (District #68), in the 1970s & 1980s

Curriculum Guides Grades 1-5, compiled by teachers under Supervisor Alastair Highet

• Grade One A, Grade One B, Grade One C, Grade One D, Grade One E, Grade One F, Grade One G, Grade One H, Grade One I, Grade One J, Grade One K, Grade One L

• Grade Two A, Grade Two B, Grade Two C, Grade Two D, Grade Two E

• Grade Three A, Grade Three B, Grade Three C, Grade Three D, Grade Three E

• Grade Four A, Grade Four B, Grade Four C

• Grade Five A, Grade Five B, Grade Five C, Grade Five D, Grade Five E

• Video: Grade 6 demonstration class (students in 6th year of Kodaly based music instruction.) Teacher: Isabel Highet

• Excerpts from above video

Resources from the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, by Bruce E. More

• Sight singing and ear training at the university level  – an historical discussion of, and rationale for, use of Tonic Sol-Fa (movable do) in university level musicianship training – Choral Journal, March, 1985

• Syllable Systems, Kodaly’s Choices – historical mnemonic syllable systems used in musical training – Kodaly Envoy, Fall, 1985.

• Fixed-do vs. movable-do – a discussion in the form of a critique of W. Multer’s “Solmization and Musical Perception”.

• Do vs. La minor – a discussion of  2 variations of movable do.  Traditional tonic sol-fa uses the syllable “la” as the tonic of a minor scale.  The use of “do” as the tonic of a minor scale is in wide use in the eastern US and Canada and parts of Germany.  A discussion and evaluation follows in this article.

• A Choral Conductor’s Guide to the Music Library – an annotated bibliography of choral-related books to 1995.

Middlesex County (Ontario) curriculum guides (1980s)

• Middlesex Grade K-Grade 1

• Middlesex Grade 2

• Middlesex Grade 3

• Middlesex Grade 4

• Middlesex Grade 5

• Middlesex Grade 6

• Middlesex Grade 7

• Middlesex Grade 8

• Resource Guide for Evaluation of Student Achievement in Music

CBC Radio Program Guides for the Province of Québec,  by Pierre Perron & Margaret Tse (etc.)

• Faisons de la musique – 4e Guide  – poster

• Faisons de la Musique 5e serie Guide – poster

• Faisons de la Musique 6e serie Guide – poster

• Making Music One Guide

• Making Music Two Guide

• Making Music Three Guide Part 1

• Making Music Three Guide Part 2

• Making Music Three Guide Part 3

• Making Music Four Guide Part 1

• Making Music Four Guide Part 2

• Making Music Five Guide

• Making Music Six Guide

• Musiquebec Four Guide  (a beginning series in Kodály for upper elementary.)

Resource from the Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria BC:

• Kodaly 1 Homework Book,by Irene Baird (Fast), 1984 – designed for children age 6 or 7, to supplement 60-minute weekly classes

Article from Reflections on Kodály, László Vikár, Editor.  International Kodály Society, 1985.

• “A path to Knowledgeable & Creative Adaptation”, by Connie Foss More, Victoria, BC
  
  

KSC AGM MINUTES

• KSC -10th Annual General Meeting- February 29, 2020 

• KSC – 9th Annual General Meeting – March 1, 2019

• KSC – 8th Annual General Meeting – February 23, 2018

• KSC – 7th Annual General Meeting – February 25, 2017

• KSC – 6th Annual General Meeting – February 6, 2016

• KSC – 5th Annual General Meeting – February 20, 2015 

• KSC – 4th Annual General Meeting- February 8, 2014 (power point)

• KSC  – Special General Meeting- Septemper 21, 2013  (power point)

• KSC – 3rd Annual General Meeting- February 8, 2013

• KSC  – 2nd Annual General Meeting- February 17, 2012

• KSC  – 1st Annual General Meeting- February 18, 2011

• KSC  – 7th Biennial General Meeting- February 6, 2010

• KSC  – 6th Biennial General Meeting- Jan. 26, 2008

• KSC – 5th Biennial General Meeting – Feb. 18, 200