Émile Chevé

Émile Chevé

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

Chevé entered the Navy at the age of sixteen, where he qualified as a doctor and surgeon. In 1835 he returned to Paris, where he devoted himself to medical science and mathematics. He also attended a course from Aimé Paris , who propagated a numerical notation for music after Pierre Galin . Enthusiastic about the method, he and his wife Nanine, a sister of Aimé Paris', devoted themselves to its further development and dissemination.

From 1844 he gave more than 150 courses in this method in Paris, which became known as the Galin-Chevé-Paris method . Together with his wife, he wrote a number of textbooks on this and taught a. a. at the École normal supérieure , the École polytechnique and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand .

His son Amand Chevé continued teaching the notation method also known as musique chiffrée . She came to the English-speaking world through John Curwen and found its way into the USA through the music teacher Lowell Mason . A hundred years later, Zoltán Kodály adapted the system for use in Hungary.

Fonts

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

source

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

Web links

• Literature by and about Émile Chevé in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Émile Chevé in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .