[Menvi-discuss] Young Braille musicstudent/keepthosesuggest ions coming/ques tion

Orlando Enrique Fiol ofiol at verizon.net
Mon Feb 20 20:01:27 EST 2023


At 01:24 PM 2/21/2023 +1300, Jeanie Willis via Menvi-discuss wrote:
>Lol, you win, on the Spanish names, well at least the first 3.
>I would love them to be called, round, white and black, kids get that.

Yeah, but the trouble starts with the corchea. Then, all the pretty images break down.

>Actually in NZ we have to know both note naming systems as we get books 
>and
>resources from both sides of the Atlantic and actually Trinity College
>London now puts whole note etc in its exam syllabus for theory also even 
>if mostly it does default to the British names.
>But I would just finish by saying, try asking a small child what 2 x 16 
>is
>and good luck getting 32, smile, a quaver divides into 2 semi quavers is
>much easier still I think.

Notice how you didn't even try to unpack the hemi-demi-semi-quaver; I still need to know what that represents. I won't rest easily until I find out.

Orlando Enrique Fiol
Charlotte, North Carolina
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist/Percussionist, Pedagogue and Poet
Ph.D. in Music Theory
University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018
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