Saturday, August 23, 2008

Expectations are high

Vietnam, here we come... and what a trip it will be. I will probably meet with a Dan Nhi player from the Chéo theater. According to our Vietnamese teachers, the conservatory mainly teach the different techniques of the instruments. For deeper knowledge in, for example, the Chéo genre you have to study with the Chéo performers at the Chéo theater, and the same goes for all the different genres.

One of my main objects in the paper is to investigate the use of notation in the different educational establishments of Vietnam. Esbjörn and I have talked about focusing on three different educational establishments: the conservatory of music, the Chéo theater and a private study group focusing on the Ca Tru music. My question is:

How do the different establishments view written music and notation as a pedagogical means and how do they use notation in their teaching?

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