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Post by caz on Oct 11, 2006 10:16:39 GMT
Violinia of course! ;D
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 11, 2006 10:18:25 GMT
Well, I did suspect as much....and would have gone back to TOP for a quick search if I still had a working account with them!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 11, 2006 10:21:54 GMT
Well, I did suspect as much....and would have gone back to TOP for a quick search if I still had a working account with them! Use SteveHopwood, password squeak. I can still log on even though I choose not to.  |
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Post by caz on Oct 11, 2006 10:24:00 GMT
Excellent password! ;D
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 11, 2006 10:27:03 GMT
Thanks Steve - will use it if I really want to search for something - I won't post anything!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 11, 2006 10:29:18 GMT
Will I get a nasty email telling me not to share my account with others, do you think?  They can't send me a nast PM - they have taken the facility away from me. You do realise don't you, folks, that a report of a description of one of V's opinions as 'drivel' will be hurtling over the airwaves even as we write? One of the TOP spies will pass it on with great relish. ;D |
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 11, 2006 10:31:23 GMT
So you can't PM with that account? Rats! I want to get back in touch with lizzyp - we were really getting somewhere with our discussion on Scarlatti...
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 11, 2006 10:35:50 GMT
So you can't PM with that account? Rats! I want to get back in touch with lizzyp - we were really getting somewhere with our discussion on Scarlatti... Sent you a pm with an alternative ;D |
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Post by meepmeep on Oct 11, 2006 13:30:24 GMT
Just a thought, Steve. In my experience, people generally expect PIANO teachers to teach theory (and prep for ear tests and the like). Certainly where I am, the ONLY teachers touching theory are the pianists. Why oh why? Surely a brass teacher worth his salt should have as much of a clue about theory as any other music teacher? Or is it simply that we pianists are supreme beings........................... I'm a pretty mediocre pianist, first study flautist: I teach theory - as yet, I haven't taught to grade 5 because I haven't had to. (I'm currently brushing up on G5 and starting G6 study so I will have the confidence to know what I am talking about if/when I have to teach to G5). I think teaching theory with a reasonable knowledge of piano helps a lot - cadences, chords, all these things are easily and graphically demonstrated and understood on the piano, and pianists are more used to using them than, say, a flautist - if you understand something better yourself, it's easier to explain it. (I find chords etc a foreign concept and although I can understand them, I have to work at it - I find it much much easier to think horizontally (melody) than vertically (chords and harmony) because I simply haven't had to as much.) I don't think it's by any means impossible to teach theory without a piano/without the background piano knowledge - about an equal proportion of my theory lessons (ie me learning) have been with and without the help of a piano - but definitely having that understanding of how the music works vertically helps a lot. Not to mention fluency in bass clef, that's one clef less to think about. In my area there are also certainly many more private piano teachers than private teachers of any other instrument, or indeed of most of the others put together. Private teachers have more opportunity to take on students just for theory than most peris would. |
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