What is it about?
Playing by ear has important benefits for the development of musicianship,but one-to-one instrumental teaching has traditionally overlooked it. This paper describes and analyses the different approaches of the participant teachers when they played by ear with their students, using the audio materials of Lucy Green's "Hear, Listen, Play!" (OUP, 2014).
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Why is it important?
The teaching strategies applied were analysed according to their kind and variety, the teachers’ expertise in playing by ear as performers, and the inclusion of playing by ear in their regular teaching as a result of participating in this research. The results show that the strategies of these teachers, when including some pre-designed tasks in their lessons to develop playing by ear, were influenced by their own teaching style, and helped to describe three different profiles.
Perspectives
The description of the strategies applied and their results, as well as their connection with teachers' own teaching style, may be useful in prospective design of teaching methods aimed at developing playing by ear in instrumental lessons.
Alejandra Pacheco-Costa
Universidad de Sevilla
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This page is a summary of: Teachers’ strategies for playing by ear in one-to-one instrumental lessons: a case-study in Spain, Music Education Research, December 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2018.1553943.
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