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The fononimia Musical Instrument Construction

These are the results of the survey that we conducted among readers of this blog:



fononimia Do you use as a teaching resource?

1. Yes, mainly that of Kodály - 64 votes (42%)


2. Yes, mainly that of Ward - 5 votes (3%)


3. Yes, the previous two as my goals - 9 votes (5 %)


4. No, I do not offer any advantage and use other support - 9 votes (5%)


5. prefer to focus on conventional language - 14 votes (9%)


6. Fononimia "? What is that? - 50 votes (33%)

This survey can discard several ideas: fononimia league wins by a landslide Kodály. Probably because Ward is not known, although many times we used intuitively, we know that is attributed to the teacher.

A striking fact is the high degree of awareness of this educational resource, which could be explained by the reason that not all visitors of this blog are specialist teachers in music education. That is why I I decided to write this post, because to know the fononimia aliens! : D
(NOTE SPOILERS: Contains details of the plot of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Phase" (1977) by Steven Spielberg)



This film insists the myth of music as universal language , thanks to which we could begin to communicate in an alleged encounter with aliens. It's a very nice idea, but ... How can we assume that the alien is tonal music, when not even all terrestrial music meets this requirement? Well, I'm ranting, but it would be fun to speculate with our students: What would the music of aliens? Would music? Why the listen? And end up composing music "alien" with Orff instruments ^ _ ^

For blog readers who do not know what the fononimia, explained briefly that are a sign language, designating each of the degrees of the scale and tonal functions of the same, since it is based on the notation. In this picture you look at the different signs of the Kodaly fononimia:



The Kodály method, first grade will always call "do", is in the key that is: is what we call the "do mobile", and so the teacher helps to sing any song in a different key though is "weird."

I know teachers who do not find their advantages, and personally, in my experience, the fononimia use as an aid to intonation, the pitch, and even when teaching a score for flute, yielding very good results. It is also interesting to make songs for two voices, singing a group of notes indicates one hand, and another group on the other hand. Requires some coordination, but like everything, with a little practice is fairly easy.

When affixing the sign of the corresponding note helps the child up or down the arm to note the relative height of the sound. For example, the gravely do I place the height of my navel, my chest to the sun in front of the mouth, and the high C above the forehead.

The fononimia without these hand signals, simply indicating the relative height of the sounds lowering or raising your hand, which is attributed to Ward. "You use the

fononimia? Why and when? What advantages do you find? As always, we can enrich all arguing in the comments.