Émile-Joseph-Maurice Chevé

Émile -Joseph -Maurice Chevé ( born May 31, 1804 in Douarnenez, † August 21, 1864 in Paris) was a French musical theorist and music teacher.

Chevé joined at the age of sixteen years in the Navy and qualified there to the doctor and surgeon. In 1835 he returned to Paris and devoted himself to medical science and mathematics. He also attended a course of Aimé Paris, who propagated a numeric notation of music by Pierre Galin. Inspired by the method he devoted himself together with his wife Nanine, a sister of Aimé Paris ', their development and dissemination.

From 1844 he was in Paris more than 150 courses in this method, which has been known as a method Galin - Paris - Chevé, co-authored with his wife, a number of textbooks on this and taught, among other things at the École Normale Supérieure, the École polytechnique and at the Lycée Louis- le -Grand.

His son Amand Chevé continued the teaching of, also known as musique chiffrée notation method. About John Curwen she came into the English-speaking world and found by the music educator Lowell Mason entrance into the United States. One hundred years later, Zoltán Kodály adapted the system for use in Hungary.

Writings

• Méthode élémentaire de musique vocal, théorie et pratique, chiffrée et portée
• Méthode d'harmonie et de composition
• 800 duos gradués
• Méthode de piano élémentaire
• Appel au bon sens de toutes les nations qui se généraliser désirent voir chez elles l' enseignement musical
• Protestation adressee au comité central d'instruction primaire de la ville de Paris, contre un rapport de la Commission de chant
• La routinely et le bon sens
• Coup de grâce à la musicale routine

Source

• Edwin E. Gordon: Learning Sequences in Music: A Contemporary Music Learning Theory, GIA Publications, 2007, ISBN 9781579996888, pp. 83

• Music theorists
• Music teacher
• Frenchman
• Born in 1804
• Died in 1864
• Man