[Smt-talk] Schenkerian analysis - visual impaired student

[Donna Doyle]

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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