Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-01-31 03:18
gwie wrote:
> The ideas are not limited to pre-K children. I make my violin
> students work on Tonalization concepts in their scales/etudes
> and spend time listening to great artists whether they are
> playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, or the Sibelius and
> Tchaikovsky Concertos. Same goes for my clarinet students!
>
Well, the ideas weren't Suzuki's, particularly. They pre-date him, perhaps, by centuries. The specific application he designed was primarily aimed at teaching young, pre-literate students aurally before introducing notation, which it's widely agreed can lead to straitjacketing young students who have little aural foundation for the sounds the notation is meant to represent.
My objection was the implication that rote imitation was likely to be a mainstay of the approaches of people like Gilbert, Burrow, Hawkins, et al given the level at which they teach. I may have misread the comment about Suzuki. His "method" was certainly more sophisticated than could be contained in a single line of description.
Karl
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