Comparative study of the performances of greek adolescents in dictée

• Main Author: Paraskevi Micha
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Granada 2012-03-01
• Series: DEDiCA
• Subjects: Educación musical; música europea-occidental; música tónica; música popular; música dictado (dictée); errores
• Online Access: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/dedica/article/view/7123

Music dictation (dictée) constitutes one of the most difficult challenges in the teaching of music and a source of disappointment for the students. Their errors, during this lesson, may be fundamental to our research. The goal of this paper is to observe, describe and analyse the errors made during the recording of melodies of western European and tropical Greek demotic music (traditional cosmopolitan melodies). These errors indicate proof and a means of analysis of the mental procedures which are inextricably connected to the teaching of music. By analysing these errors we will attempt to discover the causes which provoke difficulties and are inextricably connected to notes, intervals, scales, drops and rhythmic values. The statistical sample of the students (36 students) is a representative of the two different teaching methods (traditional and Kodaly) in an environment of a specific musical culture (Greek).