zauberflote
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- Diet only
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- okra. Cigarette smoke, old, new, and permeating a room, wafting from a balcony, etc etc. That I have so many chronic diseases. That I take so very many meds. Being cold. Anything too loud, but specifically non-classical music and the television.
Cuuuuuute!! So we're having cat contests... my big one, Tango:
This cat takes up a full size minivan front seat. We call him Walrus. Now here we have him in comparison the the 12+ lb one:
So I've read some of chapter 5 because it's addressed to me, the professional musician. It certainly advocates strongly for music for the deaf (no argument here!). I watched a couple of things of Evelyn Glennie on Youtube. One was a xylophone rendition of a baroque work for piccolo recorder (by coincidence I'm working on it right now, for the piccolo flute). It was pretty clear that the conductor was following her (which actually happens in this solo+orchestra type of music by default), as she looked at him about twice. The other pieces were non-melodic. (Hildegard is melodic, for reference). I will say that she's a gifted and mature musician, which makes her career that much easier.
This got me thinking, how on God's greenEarth would I teach flute to someone profoundly deaf from birth? While the flute is one of the loudest of the instruments, that doesn't make it any easier to learn even for hearing persons. How would I teach all the aspects of "how it FEELS to hit the right note" to a total beginner, who has so many problems even IF she can: a) hear; b) match pitch; c) control her breathing and fingers simultaneously and d) have the perseverance to keep trying daily for weeks if she doesn't find the right sound immediately?!?? There's not time enough in a life to learn how to teach that, because it presumes that the teacher is an extremely high-level player, who used all her time practising how to play, not how to teach by feel.
A percussion instrument will automatically give you the note you meant to play. A string instrument you can look at while you play. A wind instrument, not at all!
But I'm not teaching you flute, thank goodness! I hope to teach listening skills, and enjoyment of beautiful sounds.
This cat takes up a full size minivan front seat. We call him Walrus. Now here we have him in comparison the the 12+ lb one:
So I've read some of chapter 5 because it's addressed to me, the professional musician. It certainly advocates strongly for music for the deaf (no argument here!). I watched a couple of things of Evelyn Glennie on Youtube. One was a xylophone rendition of a baroque work for piccolo recorder (by coincidence I'm working on it right now, for the piccolo flute). It was pretty clear that the conductor was following her (which actually happens in this solo+orchestra type of music by default), as she looked at him about twice. The other pieces were non-melodic. (Hildegard is melodic, for reference). I will say that she's a gifted and mature musician, which makes her career that much easier.
This got me thinking, how on God's greenEarth would I teach flute to someone profoundly deaf from birth? While the flute is one of the loudest of the instruments, that doesn't make it any easier to learn even for hearing persons. How would I teach all the aspects of "how it FEELS to hit the right note" to a total beginner, who has so many problems even IF she can: a) hear; b) match pitch; c) control her breathing and fingers simultaneously and d) have the perseverance to keep trying daily for weeks if she doesn't find the right sound immediately?!?? There's not time enough in a life to learn how to teach that, because it presumes that the teacher is an extremely high-level player, who used all her time practising how to play, not how to teach by feel.
A percussion instrument will automatically give you the note you meant to play. A string instrument you can look at while you play. A wind instrument, not at all!
But I'm not teaching you flute, thank goodness! I hope to teach listening skills, and enjoyment of beautiful sounds.
