Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Wikipedia, Public Radio and Me
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Cognitive and Sensory Reading
That the two must go together to produce meaning is well-understood by those who study how young children read, especially how dyslexic children learn to read.
The flaw in the way most music reading is taught is that the sensory is left out in favor of the cognitive: i.e., the quickest possible identification of the symbol in alphabetic or theoretical terms. The ear, the only meaningful indicator of sensory experience, is traditionally left out. As a colleague once explained: "It takes too long."
I beg to differ.
Recommended reading on reading: Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf.
The flaw in the way most music reading is taught is that the sensory is left out in favor of the cognitive: i.e., the quickest possible identification of the symbol in alphabetic or theoretical terms. The ear, the only meaningful indicator of sensory experience, is traditionally left out. As a colleague once explained: "It takes too long."
I beg to differ.
Recommended reading on reading: Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf.