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| About the Musicianship Classes
All aspects of musical learning are connected. So you'll be sight-singing, clapping rhythms, writing
music down, improvising, doing hand signs and movement, as well as developing your aural skills, while
having a great time.
Improve your Aural Skills
No musicianship classes are complete without working with ‘Aural Skills’, as music is an aural
art, namely ‘sound’. Aural is all about understanding and processing music that you hear and
see.
By doing so, you will find that your own playing and singing improve enormously. You will be able to
sing/play more expressively, be more sensitive to quality of tone; more aware of intonation and improve
your ability to memorize music.
Kinaesthetic/Physical Learning & Sound at Sight/Visual Learning
Marianne will be using well-researched and extremely effective, proven methods, e.g. melody reading and
rhythm syllable systems.
She will use games as well, which also have been developed by Tonalis whilst teaching to a wide
cross-section of music students of all abilities. Also Sol Fa syllables (i.e. Do-Re-Mi, etc.) and hand
signs which provide a physical, visible and spatial connection to the sound of scales.
The Sol Fa system is an extremely efficient way of learning sight singing. It enables sight-singers to
easily pitch tricky intervals, if they use the hand signs and Sol Fa syllables regularly.
Mapping Sol Fa on the body, using gestures that show the rise and fall of a melody or a scale is a very
immediate way of both working visually, aurally & kinaesthetically.
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