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Dr. Luis Sánchez concluded in his thesis, defended at Los Dolores facilities, that "students with visual impairment do not need a different program to learn how to play the violin" and proposes a new methodology based on acoustic signals and intensify the work With ear or muscle memory
The research that this musical language teacher has presented on the Cartagena campus of UCAM and directed by Dr. Práxedes Muñoz Sánchez, has compiled a compendium of good practices, resources and methodological strategies to facilitate the inclusion of students with visual impairment in The elementary and professional teachings of music.
Specifically, the new doctor has focused his research on violin teaching, also taking into account all the subjects that make up the curriculum of this specialty as musical language, choir, orchestra, chamber music, complementary piano, harmony, history of music And analysis.
In the investigation, Luis Sanchez stressed that "despite the difficulties that blind people have in the study of the right hand because it is impossible to check by sight the correct displacement of the bow by the ropes or obstacles to be incorporated in An orchestra, due to the need to memorize the entire repertoire and bow movements, these students do not need a different program from the other sighted students, but different adaptations are required at the methodology level. And methodological strategies that compose the compendium are to use acoustic signals, intensify the work of the ear, strengthen muscular memory and mnemonic, consider a greater physical contact with the student to learn the different postural issues and technical movements, as well as for the beginnings Use the tutor-guide, the bow guides or references in the tuning fork specifically
Small circles of metal that mark the different heights, among others ".
For the author, this doctoral thesis "is a tool to guide and advise teachers of any musical instrument with blind people. It proposes many approaches that are transferable to violin students with vision, as they enrich the teaching of this instrument ".
The work, in which the ONCE Educational Resource Centers (CREs) and musical groups of Valencia, Madrid, San Sebastián, Córdoba, Vigo and Huelva, as well as Egypt and Argentina, have collaborated with people with this visual disability, Blind and family students, as well as various professors and specialists in this field, has obtained the qualification of outstanding cum laude.
Source: UCAM
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