On May 30, 2008, at 8:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many years ago as a very young teacher I was presented with a pupil whose
family had just moved here from italy. He
spoke very little English but in my
ignorance I expected him to understand all the musical terms - I was sorely
disappointed - as you said, the terms simply do
not mean the same thing in the
everyday language.
My late wife had occasional young students
(either at school or as private students) who had
grown up in a culture where fixed-do terminology
was used. (This is a small town with a very
large university and a very cosmopolitan
population.) Although her Kodály training was in
movable-do, she understood fixed-do well enough
to communicate. Same thing happened at one
Kodály workshop she attended, where there was a
very bewildered participant she was able to
communicate with. Everyone needs a full bag of
tricks!
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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