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If you speak it, you play it.
Performing Arts, Music Italian

If you speak it, you play it.

Ugo Rodolico

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There is a strong need to keep continuously developing new systems of understanding and translation of musical notation (music theory), bearing in mind the close relationship between rhythm, body, and language also stressed by Carl Orff, according to which “at the beginning of each musical exercise, whether melodic or rhythmic, there is a linguistic exercise”. Playing a musical instrument not only constitutes a specific skill in a professional sphere but, more generally, contributes in harmonic terms by activating the synthesis of emotional intelligence that lies between thinking and feeling. The teaching of the drum is certainly the most immediate and engaging way to center all the technical, musical and training objectives provided. Language, in its purest form, becomes a support for the rhythm played on percussion instruments and in particular on the drum. The application of some syllables and onomatopoeic sounds already in use in the musical traditions of certain ancient civilizations, like that of India, constitutes a valid means of memorizing rhythmic sequences and making their playing smooth, homogeneous and musical.

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Title

If you speak it, you play it.

Type

Article

Published in
Journal 28. December 2017
Language
Italian
Journal
Vol 5 Issue 1
Categories

Performing Arts, Music

Authors Ugo Rodolico

This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Ugo Rodolico (2017). "If you speak it, you play it.". JOSHA Journal. DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.1.373.