You might want to check back issues of the Modern Accordion Perspectives journal. Their website seems to be dead, but the facebook page is still live, and I see one of the issues are available for download.
Modern Accordion Perspectives. 1,464 likes. classical contemporary accordion literature, pegagogics and new projects
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It's the most "high-brow" accordion publication I know of, so the closest that's been to somebody who'd have discussed the accordion specifically like that probably.
In issue #3, Elzbieta Rosinska of the Gdansk Academy Of Music asks a series of questions and mentions "neuroscience" in her article, The development of the Polish educational accordion repertoire in 1970-2000.
At least temporarily I've put a link to my downloaded copy of that issue here:
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Question, followed by
Respondants, and their answers of that article. Not the most deep content for what you want. Most of the contents of these journals are about conservatory-level pedagogy and composition and such, not the science behind the instrument itself.
In the past, graduated accordion students become professional educators without a specific pedagogic training. The knowledge of elements of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, aesthetics, body-mind awareness is an essential tool for teaching young children? What are the basic skills that a teacher have to master to be a good music educator?
Guillaume Hodeau:
- Human body and different techniques (Alexander Technique...)
- Great skills on the instrument
- Know the repertoire (always keep up to date), performers, schools, teachers
- Be curious of everything
- Study the human development (especially 5 to 20 years-old)
- Be very demanding with your students but at the same time kind and reassuring - Read all studies about brain development and music
Marko Kassl: Well - actually personally I think that of course all those elements listed in the question are very important. On the other hand there are a couple of things that no accordion student can learn in the study! Ones personal approach and contact to young children is crucial for transporting all that know-how. So if a teacher has all the knowledge in the world but can't reach and touch the child where it is he will not be able to transport that knowledge! So one of the most basic skills in my opinion is to know what Your "teaching character" is and to use it in the right way - this knowledge one gets only by teaching and trying - learning by doing.
Patrick Busseuil: This is a very difficult question, experience shows me that there is no rule, we encounter very graduated people with poor education and also opposite! Of course, the teacher who has taken courses in several areas more likely to be a good teacher. It is first necessary that the teacher thinks he has continued to be a student for life!
Raimo Vertainen: As wide as possible; psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, aesthetics, body.Well... is one life long enough for this?
Viatcheslav Semionov: The musical learning of a child should be conscious from the very beginning, that is, the student should understand the tasks, and the teacher should guide and help to solve them, unlike the average training methods (exercise, repeat without understanding what you are doing) that makes learning process kind of sports training. In this way nobody will be interested in these trained students in the future because they have nothing to say, due to the fact that they don’t have spiritual advance and intellectual development.
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, trying to get a new band going). He started by downloading and working out (intricate) tabs to songs he likes. I'm like "No! Here's the pattern for 1,3,5, you decide what to play, 2 measures of C, 2 measures of G, here we go, 1,2,3,4...."
