Computer scientists at Northwestern created the MiLa (“mee-lah”) machine to help teach young musicians an audiovisual facet of this system. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this music education “method” that assigns syllables to note values to teach rhythm, such as “ta” for quarter notes and “ti” for eighth notes. It also teaches solfège using signs developed by John Curwen.
ANSWER: Kodály (“KOH-dye”) method
[10h] Music theorists from Belmont, Texas, and Ithaca addressed weaknesses in the Kodály method via this system of rhythmic solmization, which assigns its namesake syllables to beats. This system is named after rhythms in Carnatic music.
ANSWER: Takadimi (“TUH-kuh-dee-mee”)
[10e] In contrast, Suzuki teachers teach rhythm using variations on this song, with mnemonics like “Mississippi, Stop Stop.” This nursery rhyme’s title is sung to the notes “C, C, G, G, A, A, long G.”
ANSWER: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” [accept “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman,” “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,” or “The Alphabet Song”]
<Jacob Egol, Classical Music and Opera>