Bach’s humorous piece, composed for teaching, inspires joyful, reflective, brain balancing music practice.
The insightful ebook by Rozalina Gutman “Paradox of invisible dissonance in Fugue-Parody by J.S.Bach” explores Bach’s humor-based teaching approach, that can make music practice more enjoyable, while supporting analytically/emotionally balanced brain involvement and inspiring self-reflection of intangible aspects of the mind through music metaphors.
More and more parents become aware of the research that links music education to balanced, whole-brain engagement that enables integrative cognition – crucial for optimal brain function. (For example, MRI studies, led by Dr. Schlaug demonstrated that those who began music studies before the age 7, developed measurably larger corpus callosum – the tissue that connects left and right brain hemispheres.)
And the ebook: www.paradoxofinvisibledissonance.com, prepares for utilizing applied strategies for using polyphonic music of 18th-century composer J.S.Bach, such as music-embodied self-reflection to improve clarity in navigating such complex concepts.
For example, Supreme Court Justice Breyer, known as avid student of Bach’s scores, made his famous reference to the book “Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights” by Robert Shapiro, using this metaphor to convey the complexity of the harmonious and cooperative governance of independent branches of government.
And the ebook invites readers to use self-reflection when exploring similarly complex subjects, such as human mind paradoxes and the inner mechanisms behind self-defeating patterns, including cognitive dissonance, resistance to change, and other personal challenges that may influence growth and development.
Unique author’s scaffolding allows for the ease of grasping foundational aspects of these indispensable skills, making it accessible for anyone with at least intermediate level of reading music. And the best part – Bach’s use of musical humor makes the learning of such intricate skills enjoyable!
Bold innovator Bach employed banned during his lifetime unresolved(!) and syncolated(!) jazzy cluster chords(!) and other dissonance – in defiance of dogmatic rules of his time. And yet, they were paradoxically …missed(!) in plain sight in many didactic aids, leading to significant discrepancies with score facts
And humor-based design makes practicing this Fugue irresistible, that contains funny and surprising dissonant sonorities, that lead to joyful laughter, when played with bursting intensity.
Bach included this Fugue in the satirical style of parody on dogma into Book 1 of his monumental cycle for advanced training Well Tempered Clavier for important developmental purposes, never discussed in methodological literature before. And the author’s glance of piano instructor, shared with her colleague Master music educator-extraordinaire Bach, allowed filling in the gap in Bach scholarship on the influences of his daily challenges of the profession of music teacher on his compositional mindset of Genius Consciousness Transformer.
Rozalina Gutman gained support from celebrities, as a multidisciplinary brain/music scholar, presenter/organizer of local/global events and an internationally recognized music instructor.
Additionally, this woman of many virtues serves as the voice of advocacy for a healthy environment of voiceless children. And her groundbreaking, multidisciplinary PowerPoint presentation upon invitation by chair of ISME Research Commission’2022 and for 35th World Conference of International Society for Music Education included her call for THE URGENT COLLABORATIONS to address the root causes of dominant consciousness of self-defeat at the level of psychological drivers.
This enabled by Bach deeper understanding of commonly known inner mechanisms of paradoxical Blindspots is based on Bach’s Heart-resonant design of polyphony, that promotes emotionally/analytically balanced engagement for performers and audiences – essential for the elevation of consciousness to integrative quality, beyond current self-defeat dominance, that brought humanity to facing anthropogenic global threats.
Contrary to the common oversimplification, this ebook reveals Bach’s genuine, inspiring, joy-based teaching method, which involved his art of crafting with superb mastery the metaphors of musical humor, employed by him for didactic purpose of self-rewarding, non-grading approach to teaching. And thanks to intuitive use of dopaminergic effects of laughter, combined with joy-neurochemicals of Music instinct, this Bach’s Fugue makes student’s practice fun and even addictive, to the delight of both teachers and parents.
Master music educator with a neuroscientist’s mindset, Bach provided effective hands-on solutions for universal evolutionary relics of the human brain. His intuitive brain optimization method, based on joy-driven emotional liberation, remains the stellar example of didactic ingenuity. Author’s detailed analysis of pedagogical strategies of Bach proves that his design of gradual emergence of dissonance depends on similar jazz-like dynamic stresses – just contrary to the common tradition of typewriter-sound that confines Bach’s spirit unfairly and due to affliction by the collective Blindspot.
His design involving clashing sonic firecrackers leads to the instant emotional resonance, and instinctively sets off humorous association among both children and adults. And the musical metaphors of humor created by Bach for making funny parody on dogma can be also used for reflecting on own flaws in the style of Comedy of Errors, for letting go of unwanted emotional habits.
However, Bach’s gift of musical humor (among other invaluable self-growth tools) had been “stolen” from a number of generations of the students of Bach’s scores. And this notorious thief managed to rob off millions of musicians, showing such great power that does not discriminate against academic titles, fame, acclaim…
But, most musicians are yet to learn his name – Emotional Repression. In fact, cognitive problems caused by it propelled ebook’s author Rozalina Gutman to reveal own experience of shared collective Blindspot during youth, along with factual evidence of its link to the global crisis of stupefying emotional repression in the field of music education. Ms. Gutman’s great depths of compassion and loving kindness compelled her to share her painful lessons for prevention of the problem on the global scale in the above ISME presentations: Her heartache signaling for the relief from emotional repression is resonant to the data on its link to cardiovascular disease (Quartana, 2010)
Voluminous other research data also proves THE INJURIOUS NATURE OF EMOTIONAL REPRESSION.
No, this subject isn’t new to the psychology field. So, why does the tradition to encourage students to entrain this self-defeat pattern continue? The advocates for the pedagogical relic from the time of the tyrannical monarchy regime, who resent denouncement of hazardous tradition, try to make an argument, that expressive suppression “is not detrimental”, if practiced in music education settings, as if it may get “better” from changing research settings for the impacts of cruelty. But held in various(!) settings past studies already disproved that.
Besides, this argument is resolved by every textbook on psychology of music education with the chapters on emotional intelligence being the core aim of all music education curricula. This conflict with the Standards for music education for school curricula puts any such orthodox inferences to rest.
Since most of music instructors had no truthful information on the historical context of the subject, they easily submitted to harmful psychopedagogical double standard(!) of replication on the contemporary, dynamically rich piano of the lack/limitation of dynamics of the earlier constructed keyboards with inferior design, that were dominant during the lifetime of Bach, but…
According to Eva Badura Skoda’s book “The eighteenth century’s Piano Grand and its patrons”, Bach’s own fascination with newly emerging hammer clavier PIANO ET FORTE with varied dynamics, is evident from Bach’s own sales receipt for promoting innovative clavier under this name – by selling it to count Branitsky. (See more details via dedicated tab on book-related website)
And rediscovered Fugue demonstrated that innovator-Bach may not be bound to his time’s historical averages. Fugue’s score is the written evidence for his rebellion against dogma of his historical period, rooted in the common for monarchy cultural construct of using every classroom for indoctrination of all subjects of monarch into obedience.
Bach’s own argument against confinement by emotional expression in music succeeds, thanks to his exemplary pedagogical achievement in designing self-motivating(!) device for infusing music assignments practice with joyful humor.
And self-deprecating humor, enabled by Bach with surprising dissonance in this Fugue-Parody, makes based on its applications entertaining and resonant. It is certain to increase self-engagement with court-mandated anger management courses. In fact, when such self-motivating application is included universally into curricula for ongoing practice, such advancement and optimization of the brain function can help diminish self-defeat and harmful actions, reducing various acts of antisocial behavior, such as violations of law – from accidental oversight, to malicious hate crimes, to crimes against humanity. Such society’s investment into using Bach’s method for developing skills for humor-based self-reflection and self-growth can help to lighten up court schedules and allow judges more time to delight and enjoy music. Undoubtedly, no amount of money could measure such elevation of consciousness.
And, to create global discourse on all these subjects, Rozalina Gutman announced multidisciplinary production of BIOGRAPHICALS – the sequel about the ebook’s writing process – despite enormous hardships, inviting all forces of progress to join with support for this unique, inspired by Bach effort of his advocate.
Join camaraderie, led by Bach, and help share his musical joke with important global impacts.
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