Note Names in Transcribing Streams
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Jen P., Utah
Transcription projects in Reading Notes: are you just having them write notes on a staff as you verbalize different intervals? Do you start having them identify note names as they figure out intervals? Other ways to do transcription projects with notes?
Laurie Richards, Nebraska
Yes Jen they write notes as you dictate the interval and direction. Identifying note names is not necessary during transcribing – it’s about correctly identifying intervals in a self-generative manner.
Another way to do transcribing is to draw a staff on a big whiteboard and write in a starting note. Students take turns writing the next note as dictated by the last person. E.g. you write a high C, instruct the next student “up a 2nd”, they write the note and tell the next student a direction, etc.
Gordon Harvey, Australia
There can be value down the track identifying note names, but definitely not during transcription. It can undermine the thorough processing of intervals. Besides, identifying note names requires using a clef, which the student won’t have encountered in SM at the stage where we introduce transcription (although you can still be doing transcriptions after introducing location points).
In class, you can have a student dictate a stream from the Reading Notes book while another writes on the board or in their MS book. Maybe for extra challenge, have the reader read from right to left. When I’m dictating, I like to have some fun seeing how fast I can dictate before the student can’t keep up. Also, you can have another student be the “interval police” ready to pounce when the writer makes a mistake.
Original discussion started April 15, 2019