The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Louis Waldstein
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Finally a course was adopted as if the pupil had hardly received any previous instruction at all: it began by teaching scales, keys, intervals, and chords, and relying wholly upon aural impres- sions and oral nomenclature, with key-board work. Ifl this way the object was completely attained. This experience teaches that harmony can be best taught the young blind coincidently with the early lessons in music, and that it is there- fore unnecessary and a waste of time to wait for a late stage in musical education, as is the rule with normal pupils. We can further con- clude from it that the addition or association of touch impressions with those of hearing retard or hinder rather than facilitate the understanding of the materials and construction of harmony. Therefore, in teaching harmony to the blind, the appeal should be made to the aural sense, with no objective recourse other than the key- board. It appears to me that this most interesting experience of the complicating influence of one
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