Valeri Brainin
Valeri Brainin ( Willi Brainin - Passek; Russian Валерий Борисович Брайнин / Valery Borisovich Brainin, born January 27, 1948 in Nizhny Tagil ) is a native of Moscow musicologist, composer, teacher and writer.
Scientific and public activity
Valeri Brainin is the son of the Austrian poet and translator Boris Brainin ( " Sepp Austrians ").
Brainin is President of the Russian branch of the International Society for Music Education at UNESCO (Russian Federation Society for Music Education - ISME National Affiliate ) ( Brainin was also ISME Board of Directors nominated ), member of the German Society for Music Psychology and Director of the Research Center for New technologies of musical and music- pedagogical education of the Moscow State pedagogical University. He is a full member of the Academy of Sciences for educational training (Russia). In 1997, he was founder and artistic director of Classica Nova International Music Competition in Hanover, who has since not been held. Brainin is also the author of cultural research design " New Classic ". He does research in the field of microtonal or micro chromatic music.
Educational activities
Valeri Brainin has developed named after him Brainin method for developing the musical intelligence in children. The method is based on conclusions drawn from semiotics, information theory, structural linguistics, and developmental psychology (Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky ). In addition, ideas flow of other practical methods of development of musical hearing and thinking one, as there would be: " Absolute " Solfeggio, relative solmization (Sarah Ann Glover, John Curwen, Agnes Hundoegger, Zoltan Kodaly, Carl Orff, Richard Munnich ), syllables of the Estonian choirmaster Heino Kaljuste, the Bulgarian scale model " Stolbitzata " by Boris Tritschkow, rhythmic solmization ( Galin -Paris- Chevé method by Pierre Galin, Emile Chevé and Aimé Paris, Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon).
The main concern of Brainin method lies in the development of anticipatory perception among potential listeners of serious classical music and / or professional musicians. The most scientifically recognized Brainins works are published in Russian and are not listed here.
Literary activity
In the 1980s and early 1990s Brainin was a member of the literary club " Poesia " (Russian Клуб " Поэзия "; among the members were, among others Lev Rubinstein and Dmitri Prigov ) in Moscow. The poems Brainins were published in Russian language literary journals, including Komsomolets in Novy Mir (New World), Ogonek ( little fire ), Znamya (banner, flag ), Moskovsky Gazeta and literature. His poem dialogue (Russian: " Я ехал на трамвае в морг " ) was translated into English and published in 1994 in the American Journal Partisan Review.
Works
- Брайнин - Пассек, В. К нежной варварской речи. Стихотворения. Составитель Михаил Безродный. Предисловие Юрия Арабова. - СПб: Алетейя, 2009 - 94 c. .. - ( Серия " Русское зарубежье Коллекция поэзии и прозы. » ). ISBN 978-5-91419-277-5
Report
- Sofia Gubaidulina. Preface to the " course of the musical language " by Valeri Brainin ( facsimile; pdf, 42 kB). Partially published in Russian in Musykalnaja Akademia, Moscow, 1993, no one in Italian and in loading Quadro, Florence, 1993, No. 49-50