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Mnemonic Rhythm systems – good or bad?
By kevin | August 27, 2007
This Blog post is really a question – I am looking to discover how many music teachers use Nnemonic Rhythm Systems (sometimes called Phonetic Systems) in their teaching.
A Mnemonic is a memory Aid – a device used in education for associating something easy to remember for something hard to remember. If you are interested you can check out the definition in the wikipedia.
Mnemonics in music are words or syllables that are usually associated with particular learning “systems” such as Orff, Kodaly and Dalcroze.
Around ten years ago I wrote a scholarly paper on Rhythm Teaching called “Rhythm and Meter – difficult to teach?” in which I discussed pros and cons of the various systems. You can access this article if you are interested. It is nearly ten years old, but it still has some interesting points.
So feel free to leave a comment or contact me via email and I’ll place a follow up post - do you use Mnemonics in your teaching? How effective have you found it?
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