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    Department of Music Adelphi University: Musician and Teacher: Chapter 3

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    1. The document discusses different methods for learning and retaining music, including listening to songs repeatedly until they can be sung without music, learning harmonies, and singing along to try and hold notes. 2. It also discusses the continued use of techniques from early music instruction, like hand signs and solfege, to teach sight singing. 3. The author describes how repeated exposure to music in the car as a child, even genres they didn't intentionally seek out, helped them learn songs through mass repetition and introduced them to singing freely.

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    Department of Music Adelphi University: Musician and Teacher: Chapter 3

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    Department of Music

    Adelphi University

    0199-250:
    Foundations of Music Education

    Heather Waters, Ph.D.


    Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education

    Musician and Teacher: Chapter 3

    Stephen Hogan
    September 21, 2016

    Breakpoint 3.1:
    Through my life time of music I have learned many pieces that I could still sing
    today. I learned a large portion of my repertoire from my days doing theater in high
    school. These songs all had a story behind them which made learning the lyrics much less
    challenging. My main method behind learning all of these songs, and remembering them
    still today, is to listen to them as many times as it takes to do the song without the
    music. Along with this comes the more formal aspect of it by working
    with the schools chorus teacher to learn the harmonies and other
    minor details. After I learned the harmonies I would go back into the
    song and sing along, trying to hold my harmony against the melody,
    doing this over and over again until I had it right. This style of learning
    helped me to retain this knowledge even into today, holding both
    melody and harmony to the songs I have sung in the past.

    Breakpoint 3.2:
    Some practices from scholae cantorum such as the use of hand
    signs while singing are still used today. Along with this is the practice of
    solfege which has lasted through the ages. This practice consists of
    using a well-known hymn to St John Ut Queant Laxis. It was said that
    this could be used as the basis to learning Gregorian chant (Campbell
    45). However, while it has lasted throughout the ages, the first syllable
    has changed from the original Ut to Do and the addition of Ti to
    complete the octave. These techniques, both used together, are very

    popular ways to teach vocalizing and sight singing on neutral syllables


    as it is a very simple way to learn the basis of a song.
    Breakpoint 3.4:
    When I was young my mother and I loved to listen to music
    together and sing along with the track. One day she took me to see
    Charlie Daniels, a very well-known violinist, and he played a song
    called The Devil Went Down to Georgia. This experience led me to
    become fascinated by the violin. This began my journey to being the
    musician I am today. Teachers could connect with the family aspect of
    music by taking the time, during private instruction or any time
    available, to learn how the student got into music and what drives the
    student to be a better musician, what makes that student want to
    better themselves at what they do.

    Breakpoint 3.5:
    While growing up my mother was a big fan of country music and
    my step-dad was an avid listener to hip hop and rap music. So through
    our long car rides I would end up listening to this music, neither of
    which I would usually go out of my way to listen to, and learn the
    words to songs by Toby Keith and Eminem and Zac Brown Band and
    Tupac. I could more than likely rap some of Eminems older songs or
    some Toby Keith songs still just from the repetition of the songs. As I
    wouldnt have gone out of my way to listen to it then, I cannot say that

    the same applies today. I often put on some Eminem music to pass the
    time when I dont know what I want to listen to. The main strategy I
    used to learn this music was just the mass repetition of the music to
    learn the words and the rhythms. This is a very common practice even
    today. Children are always stuck in the car listening to their parents
    music and hearing them sing along to it. This really has more of an
    impact than anyone can imagine. It introduces these children to the art
    of singing and tells them that its okay no matter what you sound like
    as long as you have fun with it. Along with this it helps to translate into
    the music that they learn in school by giving them the tools they need
    to start learning songs by listening to them.

    Breakpoint 3.6:
    Music can teach students different cultural experiences in that
    each song tells a story and each story comes from a culture. When you
    listen to hip hop music and hear the story it tells of the life that the
    person lived in a ghetto or trailer park. Or when you listen to rock
    music that may tell the tale of a struggling husband who lost his wife
    to a mistake that he would regret for the rest of his life. Students can
    learn life experiences, the struggles of different cultures in the world,
    as well as the ways that these cultures overcame these difficulties. A
    teacher could engage students more if they looked at the music that
    correlated with the times they are teaching. Look at the civil rights

    movement and you can find songs that tell the tale of struggle to find
    somewhere to be or how they didnt belong. This story is especially
    prevalent in the Jazz and Blues music that was popular during these
    times.

    Breakpoint 3.7:
    When I was in high school all three of my instrumental teachers
    told me If you can sing the part you can play the part. This was true
    for me as I learned to sing my parts before even touching my
    instrument. It also helps to clap and move around to get the rhythm of
    the piece down especially with trickier rhythms. This method helps with
    all music from Jazz to Classical.

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