I think you are writing this because you are a child of your time; surely you are someone who was gifted even at a young age and perhaps had the luck to encounter this genre of music very early, and growing up with this type of music in your ears makes you evolve differently.
I assure you that nowadays children are totally uninterested in any kind of cognitive-cultural stimulus. They only think about playing since society itself has dropped parents into the TV vortex. Parents take their children and put them in front of the TV because they have things to do. They buy them a Playstation because they have to go grocery shopping or go to work. They leave them with their grandmother, who puts them in front of the TV. I am 33 years old; I remember very well when, as a little girl, my grandparents used to take me to the park to play, or I would go riding my bike or play with dolls with the other girls. Today there is only iPad, Playstation, Xbox, and all these devilish gadgets. Children who only think about play-based activities fall asleep as soon as you try to talk to them about any kind of rule or musical construct. Words bore them, and not to mention, while you are speaking, they get distracted and play. I have had 7-year-olds in lessons; I think I don't even have the desire to take them anymore. The gifted and interested ones are truly few. In an elementary school classroom with 30 children, if you are lucky, you find one inclined toward music. The others are all dazed by TV and video games.
If you don't find a way, even if not perfectly rigorous, to teach them something, you are out; they will never follow you. I prefer to leave them with something rather than nothing, even if it is not 100% formally correct; by doing so, I can at least define an outline, and as time goes on, it is always possible to add further details. If I may make an analogy, I believe that in elementary school, all children are taught division; only in middle school is it shown to them how division can be seen as fractions that they can use to perform more difficult calculations.
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It may well be true, yet the number of conservatory enrollees has been constantly growing for 10 years now. How do you explain this phenomenon?
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Reply 43 by lory
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I don't know the statistics you are talking about, but if the number of those who graduate relative to the number of enrollees is declining, I might have an explanation. If you confirm this data, I will reply to you.
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No, the statistics are on graduates... practically there are more and more people choosing music.
You can do some research by year and make 4 quick calculations....
It may be true, yet the number of conservatory enrollees has been constantly growing for 10 years now. How do you explain this phenomenon?
Hmm, I would try to verify how many are children and how many are former students enrolling in the much-criticized two-year programs...
I understand Lory's point and partly agree with it: the need is to involve people and I agree: what I disagree on is giving them wrong information, that's all.
PD Lory, yes, I am a "child of a different time," but I am 38 years old, not 112!
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Reply 46 by Eagle
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Carlos wrote:
i would try to verify how many are children and how many are former students enrolling in the much-criticized two-year programs...
Actually, these statistics sound a bit bad to me too. When I graduated, there was only one internal student. In the eighth year, no internal students. For music history, about 15. For complementary harmony, about 5 or 6 internals... In short, honestly, I haven't noticed all this increase. On the contrary, I would say that for the past 10 years things have been getting worse. A possible increase in course enrollments may have been determined by the introduction of the new regulations, which eliminated the possibility of graduating as a private student. In this sense, anyone who wants to play must enroll. This should be compared with the number of students booking exams (private and internal) today versus 10 years ago. My gut tells me it has decreased significantly.
