Body Percussion and Voice, Time and Pitch: An Exercise in “Singing BAPNE®” Methodologically Analyzed

Abstract

In this paper we examine one exercise taken by the Singing BAPNE music education program, in order to find involvement in time and pitch perception. Musical tempo is marked with the presence of strong and weak accents alternately; this alternation, caused by loop patterns in the exercise, has influence in the expectations about upcoming events. Moreover, pitch is anchored to rhythmic setting on the beat and off the beat. Our objective is to structure the connection between body movement and the use of the voice in the exercise. This analysis highlights how loops combinations of body percussion and singed patterns, systematized through the BAPNE Method, are didactically involved in perception of time and in pitch-time relation skills of the students.