Development of Musical Thinking - 
Brainin Teaching Method



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We offer special all-in-one courses from early childhood to professional music education. Namely, children (4 years of age and up) and students develop absolute pitch, quick long-term music memory, deep understanding and appreciation of classical music, and the skills needed for easy, enjoyable music composition. Any further or concurrent study of a musical instrument is made substantially easier and a lot more fun by the fundamental, rudimentary, as well as expert skills developed in these courses. 

We use the patented Brainin Teaching Method, which has been presented at numerous international music education conferences as well as seminars and master-courses in Amsterdam (Holland), Vienna and Salzburg (Austria), Florence (Italy), Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russia), Pretoria and Stellenbosch (South Africa), Winchester (England), Tampa and Boston (USA), and Hannover (Germany).

Here you could also read some of the texts, which have been already published. This page is permanently under construction.

Sofia Gubaidulina. Preface to "A Musical Language Course" by Valeri Brainin, 1991 (about Sofia Gubaidulina see here)

Valeri Brainin. Employment of Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Ideas in Ear Training (“Microchromatic” Pitch. “Coloured” Pitch). // Proceedings: International Society for Music Education 28th World Conference, Bologna, 2008 (ISBN 9780980456028)
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Valeri Brainin. Introduction to a video presentation at the 21th World Conference of the ISME in Tampa, Florida, USA, 1994

Valeri Brainin. Catch a Dragon (Dissection of musical text. The development of rhythmic thinking in children). A workshop at the 22nd World Conference of the ISME, Amsterdam, 1996

Valeri Brainin. Dissection of a musical text as essential to understanding the language of music. Conference Proceedings of the 23rd World Conference of the ISME, Pretoria, South Africa, 1998
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download as a PDF file)

Valeri Brainin. "Development of Musical Thinking" as an alternative discipline in the education curriculum. Proceedings of the 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Music Pedagogical Education between the 20th and 21st Centuries", Moscow 2004
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Valeri Brainin. On the crisis of systematised children education in arts and humanities and on the need for an "Intonated Music Culture" in the education curriculum Proceedings of the 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Music Pedagogical Education between the 20th and 21st Centuries" [English version], Moscow.
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Valeri Brainin. (2008) Employment of Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Ideas in Ear Training (“Microchromatic” Pitch. “Coloured” Pitch). // Proceedings: International Society for Music Education 28th World Conference, Bologna (ISBN 9780980456028)
(download as PDF file)

Valeri Brainin. (2009) Development of "predictive perception" of music in children. // In: A.R.Addessi & S.Young (Eds). MERYC2009. Proceedings of the European Network of Music Educators and Researches of Young Children, Bologna (Italy), 22nd-25th July 2009, pp.135-142. Bologna: Bolonia University Press (ISBN 978-88-7395-472-9), 679 p.
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Musicological publications and Essays

Seminar topics

International Seminar 1999 (archive)

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