Episode 155: Solfa
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Charlotte Mason considered musical training an essential, including Solfa in her curriculum. This interview with Heidi Buschbach reveals the purpose of this method of music training, how Miss Mason employed it in her curriculum, and how untrained teachers can take advantage of resources to include this subject in their own lessons.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a Delectable Education is brought to you by simply Charlotte Mason's |
| 0:05.0 | Singing the Great Hymns. |
| 0:07.0 | Singing the Great Hymns is a perfect resource for helping you choose hymns for either singing or recitation in your homeschools. |
| 0:16.0 | More than 70 hymns are included. |
| 0:20.0 | That means six hymns for each of the 12 years, which is two per term more than enough to get you started |
| 0:27.7 | This resource includes the sheet music to read the music along or as your children grow in their piano skills they are able to play along with the hymns that you are singing as a family. Audio recordings of just the accompaniment without voices are included for all of the hymns included in |
| 0:45.4 | singing the great hymns. |
| 0:47.3 | You can also choose Christmas or Easter hymns to correlate with the church in school years. |
| 0:55.0 | Please visit simply CharlotteMason.com for more information. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm your host Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kettrell and Nicole Williams. |
| 1:09.9 | And today we have a special guest Heidi Bush Bushback, to talk to us all about Sofa or Solfege, |
| 1:16.4 | as it's called sometimes. |
| 1:18.2 | So Heidi, welcome to a Delectable Education. |
| 1:21.1 | Thanks, I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:22.8 | Heidi, would you like to tell us a little bit about your family and how you found Charlotte Mason? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, so I actually bought for the children's sake at Lebree in Switzerland right before I got married and I had no idea what it was. |
| 1:38.5 | And then about four years later we moved to Minnesota and there on the side was Nancy Kelly's |
| 1:48.0 | advertisement for the Living Education Retreat and talking about Charlotte Mason. |
| 1:54.4 | And then I was learning about homeschooling, my daughter was four, and I thought, well, I think I have |
| 2:01.5 | a book about this lady and I think sunlight mentioned for the children's sake or something and so I went and got it and I was able to go to the first, a third LER I think was my first one. |
| 2:14.0 | And so Nancy Kelly has been a great mentor for me. |
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