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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Feb 24, 2000 7:35 pm Subject: Re: Writing Songs | |
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On 2/22/00, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >Durig this DCF meeting the only true instrument was a large drum. Who ever >was hitting it wasn't always in time with those singing. :-) -------------------------------- SignWriting List February 24, 2000 Hi Trevor and Stuart - Thanks for the interesting messages about writing the signing of songs in SignWriting...which can be done and will be very useful to your congregations....and yes, we can solve the problem of timing ... In regards to using a drum to give rhythm...although of course I know the theory behind that...it is true that all people, deaf or hearing, can feel vibrations to a certain extent, and I am sure that deaf people have developed that ability better than many hearing people have. However, for a short time I taught ballet to deaf children - and I also taught a ballet class to the National Theater of the Deaf once - I was at the NTD teaching SignWriting in a one-week workshop in the summer of 1977, and there I met Linda Bove, the Deaf star on the American TV show Sesame Street. Linda and I started talking about ballet, and I ended up giving a short ballet class to a few interested Deaf members of the National Theater of the Deaf...that was fun and most likely will never happen again! I haven't taught dance in many years... I bring this up for a reason...I tried using drums and vibrations when teaching ballet to deaf people...and my experience is that deaf people cannot feel vibrations if they are moving or jumping. Vibrations become enjoyable when one sits still and concentrates and...of course there are exceptions with very loud booms...but most of the time, when one is moving...a loud drum would not give enough vibration for a deaf person to "feel the rhythm". And "signing songs" is like "moving poetry"...it is like dance in the sense that the signers are moving enough that the vibrations would not be as evident to them... But there are visual cues that can be used for professional dancers who are deaf, and some of those visual cues are used in the timing with SignWriting...so I will get to that explanation soon - Best - Val ;-) ------------------------------------ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archive https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l/ Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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