[oops, I accidentally sent this to Phil instead of the List....]

At 12:58 PM 06/27/03, Phil Daley wrote:

>The theory teacher plays two notes on the piano.
>
>The student is expected to say what the interval is.
>
>Imagining the two notes as the start of a song and then knowing what that
>interval is, is a method of learning the answers to the question.
>
>Nothing more than that.
>
>It has zero to do with intervals in the middle of something.

Sounds like it has zero to do with music to me.

I guess that's the sort of thing I missed by not going to music school. Am
I naive for wondering what use there is in hearing a two notes played on a
piano and naming the interval? It sounds like a pointless exercise to me,
but then I felt that way about most of what I learned in school....

mdl


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