Solfège is the study of all music parameters that encompass music theory and music form through movement and "directed listening." The solfège course is to provide the necessary skills to allow the student to improvise music at the piano for teaching eurhythmics.
The solfège course begins with the development of the "inner ear" so that the student can recognize, label, and then perform on the piano music parameters that combine for teaching.
Included are the parameters of melody, harmony, rhythm, and counterpoint, among others. Within the subjects of melody and harmony, we include the study of the pitch, pitch sets, function, interval, changing clefs, triads, and seventh chords, including their inversions and the possible resolutions at the piano.
We also teach students to recognize, label, and then perform at the piano the four pure rhythmic modes (dactylic, anapest, iambic, and trochaic). Later, we work with these modes superimposed in the augmented form (twice as fast), the diminished form (twice as slow). Also covered, the subject of three times as fast and slow.
From the study of rhythm pattern students are trained to identify by ear, eye, and then play all possible divisions of or additions to a basic beat and the use of the equivalent silences. Also covered is the grouping of beats into simple, compound, and complex meters of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. The learning of meter structure includes the study of arm beat patterns from 2 through 8 beats.