Mark D. Lew Saith: 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.<< Me three. I was always very good at figuring out chords, and I was always told by my theory and aural skills teachers that remembering an unrelated melody for intervals is only going to slow you down, and ultimately screw you up on melodic dictation because the dictation is going to get blasted out of your head when you start humming "My bonnie" followed by "Maria" to identify something. (Particularly if you hear everything in the key you learned it in...) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
