[Smt-talk] Fwd: Schenkerian analysis - visual impaired student

[Donna Doyle]

P S Isn't this a principle goal (however distant) of all ET classes--to be able to 
see what we hear, along with hearing what we see? And 'large' hearing
should be no exception. In fact, I've found that some students who struggle to
hear from beat to beat grasp phrases and cadences better than those who get 
all the pitches. (Don't know why.) The student below did both. At any rate, 
entire small pieces can be written down (either on paper or on the board of
one's imagination) on different levels.

Donna Doyle
Queens College CUNY



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> From: Donna Doyle <donnadoyle at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Schenkerian analysis - visual impaired student
> Date: November 5, 2012 5:49:21 PM EST
> To: Nicolas Meeùs <nicolas.meeus at paris-sorbonne.fr>
> Cc: smt-talk smt <smt-talk at societymusictheory.org>
> 
> Brooks Kerr, the visually-impaired jazz pianist known for knowing more Ellington
> than Ellington, was told by the Manhattan School that he must learn Braille music
> in order to be admitted. He refused. Later, when I taught at MSM, I tutored a 
> visually impaired classical guitar student. Because his pitch was perfect and his 
> imagination strong, we were able to approach analysis from a dictation perspective. 
> He was able to discern what I played, hold a picture of it in his imagination 
> and discourse from there. He 'got' sophisticated ideas, indeed, he relished them. 
> I think this can only work in private sessions and even then with a student so inclined. 
> 
> Donna Doyle
> 
> Aaron Copland School of Music
> Queens College
> Flushing, NY  11367
> 
> 
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Nicolas Meeùs <nicolas.meeus at paris-sorbonne.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Dear collective wisdom,
>> 
>> The University Paris-Sorbonne, under the pressure of Luciane Beduschi (now of Skidmore College), organized compulsory classes in Schenkerian analysis for our third-year students. One of them, visual impaired, asked to be freed from these classes and, indeed, we saw no other solution than to exempt her from this course.
>> 
>> I would be most interested to know if anyone has experience of such a situation.
>> 
>> Nicolas Meeùs
>> Université Paris-Sorbonne
>> 
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