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Note Alphabet

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04 Jan 2012 18:19 - 04 Jan 2012 18:22 #888 by hellene
Note Alphabet was created by hellene
This is month it would be nice to dedicate to the Note Alphabet.
It is hard to believe, but the definition of this concept had never been fully determined by musicology before Soft Mozart came to existence.
Here is an excerpt from the book ‘You can be a musician’ about the Music Alphabet: www.pianolearningsoftware.com/Book-You-C...wnloadable_p_36.html :
What is the music alphabet? In form, it is a sequence of notes of the musical system that can be spoken aloud. But in essence, the music alphabet is the fundamental base of music reading, crucial to the comprehension of the interrelatedness of music sounds, and the tie between speech and music logic. This alphabet is not simply speech, but not quite music. It doesn’t require singing by pitch yet, but already calls for music logic in sounding out and articulation. It is the natural bridge from speech to music.

Resources for the development of hearing and voice are embedded into the Music Alphabet. This is the key to reading melodies, intervals, and chords. It is at the foundation of procurement of sound from an instrument, because in any instrument, the sound apparatus is organized in a set pattern.

At the moment, educators try to tie the memorization of notes to the lines of the music staff, ignoring the notes’ context in a united space, such as the Grand Staff. This is unreasonable because:

1. Each note is a part of a united whole. It doesn’t exist all on its own, but is connected to all of the other notes in a music context. One must know not only one note’s location on the music staff, but must be familiar with all of the space that surrounds it. Ideally, one should be able to internally hear the note’s harmonious constructions, possible melodic paths and possibilities. Playing each note, a musician should be able to name it, sing it out loud or in his head, and trace it forward by several bars. This is what constitutes firm music logic, and knowledge of the Music Alphabet helps to understand the logic of the language of music.

2. Notes of the alphabet follow a specific order. An alphabet is an orderly and symmetric system. It helps one to understand the visual logic of the language of music: music notation.

3. The use of the Music Alphabet prepares the student for the spatial regularity of music. Knowledge of the order of the notes transfers to the keys, where he will understand that "Do" is three keys away from "Sol," etc. Later this helps to quickly play the jumps in melody, double and triple notes, and chords. Work with the music alphabet prepares the hands of a person for music reading.

4. The auditory memorization of speech is one of the most stable and innate skills. With the help of the articulative memory, a child learns to speak. To leave out this prized skill is simply stupid. In my classes, there are children with very poor music hearing. At first, they effectively memorize music pieces depending on articulation (the naming of the notes). Articulation becomes music, and the music tugs out the development of hearing and memory. The music alphabet helps to develop music memory through articulation.
The video shows all the levels of the game and how to play it:


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11 Jan 2012 22:47 #1083 by hellene
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Video about how you can learn Hannon #1 exercise and piano keys names at the same time:


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