At 8:54 AM 06/27/03, Linda Worsley wrote: >I was spared the process of >learning intervals by attaching them to songs. I had an early piano >teacher who taught me to sing and recognize intervals by practicing >singing them on both numbers and solfege syllables, and it worked... >and didn't evoke an unwanted melody when I heard them. I hear a >major sixth as do-la, not "My bonnie"... a more uncluttered memory >tool, in my opinion, but that's just me...
Me too. Also, to me intervals are associated with a tonal center [*]. Of course I know that 3 to 8 in a major scale is the same interval as 1 to 6 in a minor scale, but to remember one by association with a tune that includes the other seems bizarre to me. Even more so for 1-4# vs 7-3. Do you really mean to tell me that if there's a tune that ends B-F-B-C against a G7-C cadence, you're going to get the B-F interval by imagining "Maria"? I find that terribly counterintuitive. mdl [*] Yes yes, I realize that in some music there is no tonal center, but in all the tunes being discussed in this thread there is. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
