N C A K E NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OFKODÁLY EDUCATORS
		“Music belongs to everyone...”
			Zoltan Kodály (1882-1967)

	• Workshop 1

Workshop Description:
Explore the diverse music of Native America, sampling from traditional social dances to contemporary popular AlterNative sounds, learning Native American flute songs and children’s songs and singing games, bringing to life a vibrant culture through the power of women’s music and age-old stories which reveal the underlying beliefs and values of the First Nations.
Culturally and educationally appropriate model lessons will be drawn from the presenter’s research and own family traditions. Participants are encouraged to bring soprano recorders and to dress comfortably for this interactive presentation.

Bryan Burton, D Mus Ed, is Professor of Music Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. From Arizona to Delaware to Texas, from New Mexico to New York, Bryan Burton has traveled, lived and studied with people who are actively using these songs in their communities — people who cherish their traditions and are willing to share them in the hope of increasing understanding, respect for and appreciation of their culture among all people and all cultures. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of Ceremonial and Social Songs and Dances of Selected Native peoples of the Southwestern United States and Artisans of the American Southwest. He is a frequent clinician at international, national, state, and in-service music education and ethnomusicology conferences.
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• Workshop 2

Holy Names University’s online American Folk Song Collection features hundreds of songs for teaching, including field recordings and transcriptions from the Library of Congress, a powerful database for searching for songs, downloadable scores, and brief flash movies about Kodály’s vision for music education. In this session, we will present selected folk songs through their musical and cultural context using the site’s newest feature--historic and cultural background information. Participants will perform songs and games suitable for both elementary and middle school students and learn how to use the site’s musical and pedagogical resources to develop materials for teaching.

Anne Laskey is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Kodály Center at Holy Names University. She taught music at Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco for more than ten years and served as Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Boys Chorus from 1990-1995. She currently teaches pedagogy, practicum and folk music and supervises student teaching in the academic year program.

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Workshop 3:

No Struggle Solfège Solutions
with Ildi Salgado & the Piedmont Choirs
April 5, 2008, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Wildwood School Auditorium
301 Wildwood Ave, Piedmont 94610

A comprehensive workshop to improve sight-reading and inner hearing skills, along with the ability to quickly orient to relative pitch. Ildi Salgado, with the Piedmont Choirs, will demonstrate how to use solfège for solid intonation in contemporary literature for youth choirs.

Ildi Salgado has taught solfege, conducting and chamber singers in the HNU Kodály Program since 2001. She served as guest conductor of the 2002 and 2005 HNU Children’s Choral Festival. Ildi holds a Diploma in Choral Conducting and Teacher Training from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

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