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Re: Reading music and dyslexia

Author: ruben
Date: 2016-11-30 13:59

Thank you Karl and all of you for your very studied, articulate and insightful comments. I thought getting learners to use their ears more instead of relying on their eyes would help, but this also proves a major problem. People suffering from dyslexia seem to have more trouble memorizing pieces than those that don't have this handicap. Another hurdle seems to be key signatures. I have an adult student that has to write the accidentals in before each note. He claims this is because he started the clarinet late in life and never had proper scale practice, but I reckon it has something to do with his dyslexia-I've seen other aspects of it in him-that he doesn't seem to be aware of suffering from. I might add that that there seems to exist a hereditary element: dyslexia seems to run in the family. This would have been a great subject for the neurologist Oliver Sacks, who died last year. He was also very keen on musical perception and therapy.

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com

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