 A method using colors and simple graphics to show the many levels of cross-domain mapping that give meaning to music | ||
| People Respond • Auditory Awareness • Private Sessions • Group Sessions • How It Works • About Nancy Garniez • Nancy Garniez Teaches • TONALRefractions ©2008 Nancy Garniez. All rights reserved. |
TONALRefraction reveals the many cognitive skills involved in an individual's awareness of tone, skills which are often neglected and sometimes even undermined in traditionally structured instrumental and theoretical study. | |
• Build awareness of the many ways you respond to tone • Enable the ear-imagination to work free of the constraints of conventional notation or of instrumental technique • Empower the adult musical self to listen more fully and to play with greater ease, conviction and satisfaction WORKSHOPS • Make musical genres vivid for listeners and for players • Build awareness of how one's own history as a listener adds to fully mature listening GROUP SESSIONS • Introduce the technique • Reactivate TONALRefraction for those already familiar with it REPETITIVE LISTENING SYNDROME • Seminars for teachers and other professionals for whom listening has become static and boring. | ||