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If we taught music the way we teach math. No wonder so many people are "bad at math". “Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some
by hydrogen7800 1y ago
If we taught music the way we teach math. No wonder so many people are "bad at math".
“Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different key. We have to make sure to get the clefs and key signatures right, and our teacher is very picky about making sure we fill in our quarter-notes completely. One time we had a chromatic scale problem and I did it right, but the teacher gave me no credit because I had the stems pointing the wrong way.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament
- thomasikzelf 1y agoOf course Brett Victor has the essay on his website: https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician's_Lament.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician'... It is a great read!
- seba_dos1 1y agoFrankly, with all the mess that music notation is and the way it's often being taught, this may actually be a slight upgrade over status quo. I have never experienced more "that's just how it is" than in music.