Music education for anyone. Easy and effective ear training methods of broadening a musician’s inner hearing
Music education for anyone. Easy and effective ear training methods of broadening a musician’s inner hearing

Summary/Abstract: Rhythmic education has always been regarded as one of the most important components of musical education and considered crucial in order to develop satisfactory cognitive, audible and sensorial music abilities. The method proposed in the following paragraphs will describe the use of comparative rhythmic and melodic exercises treated more as didactical games rather than simple written or oral activities. Moreover, it lists suitable pedagogical approaches that are necessary in order to train and strengthen the ear training technique. All of these elements are destined for beginners that do not study music as a main subject and for groups of pupils from the primary and elementary school that study music as a main subject. By insisting on practicing numerous rhythmic patterns and interval jumps, the improvements in writing dictation and singing solfeggios were proven to be significant and various students from different age groups showed signs of major developments. This simple but efficient ear training method, which was based on worksheets, images, music sheets and lots of music auditions, made students understand and correctly master the differences, and later the connections, between sounds and durations.

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