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Dear colleagues,<br>
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We have a very hard-working, gifted young pianist who cannot pass
her aural skills sequence. She has bronchial pulmonary dispasia
(which affects her ability to sight-sing). But her primary issue is
almost total deafness in her left ear. She struggled for a long
while to understand why she had absolutely no problems with speech
or understanding speech, but had difficulty reproducing and
recognizing pitch height. According to a recent research paper she
shared with me, we use our left ears almost exclusively for that
purpose, while using the right ear to decipher speech and
syntactical relationships.<br>
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Has anyone dealt with a similar situation, or has anyone dealt with
a situation where a student simply could not complete their aural
skills requirement for medical reasons?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much for any replies.<br>
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<p style="font-size:smaller">Amy Bauer<br>
Associate Professor of Music Theory<br>
3043 Contemporary Arts Center<br>
Claire Trevor School of the Arts<br>
University of California, Irvine<br>
Irvine, CA 92697-2775</p>
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<a href="http://music.arts.uci.edu/content/amy-bauer">Department
website</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409400417">Ligeti's
Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism and the Absolute</a></p>
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