<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">P S Isn't this a principle goal (however distant) of all ET classes--to be able to <div>see what we hear, along with hearing what we see? And 'large' hearing</div><div>should be no exception. In fact, I've found that some students who struggle to</div><div>hear from beat to beat grasp phrases and cadences better than those who get </div><div>all the pitches. (Don't know why.) The student below did both. At any rate, </div><div>entire small pieces can be written down (either on paper or on the board of</div><div>one's imagination) on different levels.</div><div><br></div><div>Donna Doyle</div><div>Queens College CUNY</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Donna Doyle <<a href="mailto:donnadoyle@att.net">donnadoyle@att.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Smt-talk] Schenkerian analysis - visual impaired student</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">November 5, 2012 5:49:21 PM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Nicolas Meeůs <<a href="mailto:nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr">nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">smt-talk smt <<a href="mailto:smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>Brooks Kerr, the visually-impaired jazz pianist known for knowing more Ellington<br>than Ellington, was told by the Manhattan School that he must learn Braille music<br>in order to be admitted. He refused. Later, when I taught at MSM, I tutored a <br>visually impaired classical guitar student. Because his pitch was perfect and his <br>imagination strong, we were able to approach analysis from a dictation perspective. <br>He was able to discern what I played, hold a picture of it in his imagination <br>and discourse from there. He 'got' sophisticated ideas, indeed, he relished them. <br>I think this can only work in private sessions and even then with a student so inclined. <br><br>Donna Doyle<br><br>Aaron Copland School of Music<br>Queens College<br>Flushing, NY 11367<br><br><br>On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Nicolas Meeůs <<a href="mailto:nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr">nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear collective wisdom,<br><br>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.<br><br>I would be most interested to know if anyone has experience of such a situation.<br><br>Nicolas Meeůs<br>Université Paris-Sorbonne<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>