Music education has been influenced by many people throughout history, but arguably none of them have done so as much as the monk, Guido D’Arezzo. His teaching methods have been embraced and ...developed by music educators throughout the centuries. For example, it is recorded that Guido was the first to use the five-line staff as we use it today. This was especially groundbreaking in a world of rote memorization. Today it is used globally in music education. The roots of solfege are also found in Guido’s writings; his syllables have been adapted by Zoltan Kodály. Not only that, but John Curwen’s hand signs are derivative of the so-called Guidonian Hand. Guido’s writings also provide ideas on including composition in teaching music. These ideas have been adapted by John Feierabend, a proponent of improvisation in the music classroom. Therefore, many of our modern practices can be traced back to the roots of Guido’s ingenuity.
The purpose of these meta-analyses was twofold: 1) to determine whether experimentally - tested sight reading interventions positively influenced rhythmic or melodic sight reading performance and if ...so; 2) to explore whether the interventions differentially affected rhythmic and melodic sight reading. Two meta-analyses were conducted; one comprised experimental research measuring rhythmic sight reading (46 studies; 68 individual analyses) and another comprised research measuring melodic sight reading (21 studies; 35 individual analyses). Analyses revealed small overall effect sizes (Rhythmic: d = −0.34, 95% CI −0.50, –0.19; Melodic: d = −0.35, 95% CI −0.59, –0.12). Moderator variables were used to examine how effect size was influenced by treatment type and other study-level design elements. Treatment type significantly influenced both rhythmic and melodic sight reading. For rhythm, treatments that focused on counting systems and included movement or rhythmic drill positively affected sight reading. Melodic results are preliminary due to the limited number of studies, but based on the information available, treatments using collaboration activities or instrumental training positively affected sight reading. Varying notation did not improve sight reading. The type of sight reading (rhythmic, melodic) significantly affected the effectiveness of some treatments.
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The aim of this study was to explore the impact of a new solfege course design, where movable numbers integrated into the fixed-do system, on students' sight-singing skills. The procedure of this ...action research, carried out in two cycles, consists of three steps: 'planning', 'acting and observing' and 'reflecting'. The course, which was designed in the planning step, was implemented by the researcher for 28 weeks in the acting and observing step. Data were collected through research diary, student interviews, midterm and final exams, and student self-evaluations. In the reflecting step, evaluation regarding the entire process was made and an improved version of the course design was formed at the end of each cycle. According to the results of Cycle 1, the necessity of rearranging the tonal patterns, and progressing more slowly in rhythm teaching has emerged. The results of Cycle 2 revealed the need to update the 'rhythmic melody sight-singing' materials in the last unit and to incorporate video assignments into the course design. The overall results showed that integrating movable numbers into the fixed-do system is an effective way to teach music reading skills in solfege class.
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The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine whether experimentally tested sightreading interventions positively influenced sightreading ability. A meta-analysis was conducted with 92 ...quasi-experimental research studies on sightreading (124 individual analyses) to determine the overall effect size of treatment and to examine how the effect size was influenced by treatment type, sightreading mode (sightreading/sightsinging), age and experience of sight reader, type of sightreading test, and other study design elements. The analysis revealed a small overall effect size for treatment (d = −0.18, 95% CI −0.24, −0.11). Of the moderator variables, only treatment-type was significant, with treatments categorized as “Aural Training,” “Controlled Reading,” “Creative Activities,” and “Singing/Solfege” significantly and positively affecting sightreading. There was a moderately strong within-group effect size (d = −0.48, 95% CI −0.56, −0.40), indicating that sightreading generally improved pre- to posttest for both control and treatment groups.
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Western music education is principally developed around the study of solfege. Most of the approaches in this field of education are characterized by rationality and staticity. The aim of this article ...is to present an educational proposal for the study of solfege through body percussion and use measures and divisions according to the BAPNE method. Use of the body in its entirety can contribute to the definition of a new approach to solfege. Through psychomotor coordination and dissociation, use of laterality, of imagined, spoken, recited and singing voice, the executive function, attention, concentration and short and long term memory are stimulated and enhanced. Body solfege, intended as the practice of using body and movement in the comprehension and reading of basic rhythmic musical language, can be a valid instrument in integration of traditional solfege.
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The Fixed DO solmization system which is used mainly in Latin language countries and the former USSR, was introduced to Japan by pianist Kiyohide Sonoda in the 1930s. The effectiveness was soon ...recognised in the out-school music education setting but the school music curriculum continued to use the Movable DO as the compulsory solmization system. Within a half century, however, Fixed DO naturally developed and not only pupils but teachers who had been taught in Fixed DO in their childhood became comfortable teaching and learning in Fixed DO. Subsequently, Movable DO in school textbooks has become very limited.
В статье рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с освоением сложных интонационно-стилевых моделей в музыки XX века в курсе сольфеджио для студентов вокального факультета вуза. Отмечается необходимость ...использования ряда аналитических приемов, предваряющих исполнение одноголосных образцов. К числу этих приемов можно отнести определение элементов различных звуковысотных систем в структуре каждого отдельного номера и использование техники переключения тонально-слуховой и исполнительской настройки для правильного озвучивания материала.
I Rytme. Videregående studier giver Erik Højsgaard, komponist og professor i hørelære ved Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, en indføring i rytmelæsning. Med bogens 451 øvelser og tilhørende ...noter får alle, der beskæftiger sig professionelt med musik, mulighed for at videreudvikle deres tekniske og håndværksmæssige kunnen inden for dette område. Bogen indeholder også øvelser rettet mod nyere kompositionspraksis.
Om bogen skriver professor og komponist Per Nørgård:
Erik Højsgaards indføring i hørelærens mange sider er båret af dyb indsigt i den vestlige musik og dens tusindårige tradition. Foruden den pædagogiske klarhed, der bringer rytme og flerstemmighed på en forståelig form, er Højsgaards fremstilling både musikalsk og underholdende. Man har erhvervet nye indblik og tillige musikalske glæder, når man har gennemarbejdet bogens øvelser.
Bogen er også udgivet på engelsk under navnet Rhythm.
An Automatic Singing Evaluation System Jin, Ze Yu; Cai, Lian Hong; Liu, Yu Xiang ...
Applied Mechanics and Materials,
01/2012, Volume:
128-129
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
In this paper, a singing evaluation approach based on pitch and rhythm accuracy is proposed. A comparative study was first carried out between speech and singing voice, which demonstrated the ...characteristic of consonant and vowel in singing voice. A phoneme boundary detector was adopted to perform note segmentation in a high time resolution by using characteristics of consonant and vowel. As for singing skill evaluation, relative pitch interval between reference score and actual sung pitch was adopted to estimate pitch deviation while difference between absolute position and expected position of beats served as rhythm consistency measure. Experiments on a solfege corpus demonstrated a noticeable improvement in the performance of onset detection. A detailed subjective evaluation showed great consistency between the proposed evaluation approach and experts’ judgment.
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