Re: [Finale] OT: Songs for intervals

[Tim Thompson]

That's a good topic for the SMT or CMS Teaching Music Theory lists.  
I'd like to see what they so with these comments.  Fact is that most 
teachers of aural skills do drill intervals without tonal context.  It 
seems to be pretty useful for young singers, but arguable about how 
much it helps with tonal musicianship.  Great for quasi- or non-tonal 
contexts, but then it might be better to change nomenclature to 
half-step distances.  The only thing is that the concept of a third or 
a fifth relates to music notated on a staff better than a 4 or a 7 
(half steps).

Tim

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 07:04  PM, Mark D. Lew wrote:

[oops, I accidentally sent this to Phil instead of the List....]

At 12:58 PM 06/27/03, Phil Daley wrote:

The theory teacher plays two notes on the piano.

The student is expected to say what the interval is.

Imagining the two notes as the start of a song and then knowing what 
that
interval is, is a method of learning the answers to the question.

Nothing more than that.

It has zero to do with intervals in the middle of something.
Sounds like it has zero to do with music to me.

I guess that's the sort of thing I missed by not going to music 
school. Am
I naive for wondering what use there is in hearing a two notes played 
on a
piano and naming the interval? It sounds like a pointless exercise to 
me,
but then I felt that way about most of what I learned in school....

mdl

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