Practical Tools to Foster Harmonic Understanding

Autor/in	Johnson, Erik
Titel	Practical Tools to Foster Harmonic Understanding
Quelle	In: Music Educators Journal, 99 (2013) 3, S.63-68 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0027-4321
DOI	10.1177/0027432112469539
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Concept Formation; Auditory Perception; Teaching Methods; Singing; Writing Assignments; Listening Comprehension; Music Theory; Visual Stimuli; High School Students; College Students; Music Activities; Music Reading + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Gesang; Hörverständnis; Musiktheorie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Collegestudent; Musikalische Aktion; Musizieren
Abstract	Among the elements required to develop a comprehensive understanding of music is students' ability to perceive, recognize, and label the harmonies they hear. Harmonic dictation is among the strategies that teachers have traditionally chosen to help students develop harmonic awareness. However, the highly idiosyncratic ways that students approach harmonic dictation have often left music teachers at a loss for well-developed strategies to make this task transparent for students. To help students develop harmonic awareness, this article presents (a) a system of singing arpeggiated chords to guide and increase student accuracy through harmonic dictation exercises, (b) a set of part-writing procedures to help students organize common part-writing strategies, (c) a review of research supporting these strategies, and (d) potential applications of this model in large-ensemble instruction. The ultimate goal of this article is to help teachers demystify the process of teaching harmonic dictation while increasing their ability to use singing and dictation as tools to improve students’ musicianship. (Contains 13 figures and 17 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10