Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students

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ABSTRACT

Music has a universal language and it can express any emotion and feeling. Music says different things for different people, but the universally acknowledged thing is that music can express anything.

Music is a powerful communication tool, it causes us to laugh, cry, think and question.

Literally Music is addressed as:

- An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

- The tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.

- Musical work or compositions for singing or playing.

- The written or printed score of a musical composition.

CONTENTS

I. THE TRAINING OF THE MUSIC TEACHER

II. THE ORGANIZATION OF MUSICAL WORK IN SCHOOLS

III. THE TEACHING OF VOICE PRODUCTION AND SONGS

IV. THE SOL-FA METHOD

V. FIRST LESSONS TO BEGINNERS IN EAR-TRAINING

VI. THE TEACHING OF SIGHT-SINGING

VII. THE TEACHING OF TIME AND RHYTHM

VIII. THE TEACHING OF DICTATION

IX. THE TEACHING OF EXTEMPORIZATION AND HARMONY

X. THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY COMPOSITION

XI. THE TEACHING OF TRANSPOSITION

XII. GENERAL HINTS ON TAKING A LESSON IN EAR-TRAINING

XIII. THE TEACHING OF THE PIANO

XIV. SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS ON LEAVING A TRAINING DEPARTMENT

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Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students

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