1. Dr. Marina Karaseva
New Technologies and Traditional
Methodologies:
the Opportunities of Russian-American
Interaction in the Field of Music Art

2. Dr. Marina Karaseva
• Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation
• Full Professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, Advisor to the Rector
• Ph. D. in Musicology, D. Sc. in Music Art
• Member of the Russian Composers Union
Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation
• Full Professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, Advisor to the Rector
• Ph. D. in Musicology, D. Sc. in Music Art
• Member of the Russian Composers Union

3. Fulbright Award
• Senior Fulbright Scholar (University of
Maryland, 1999-2000).
• Research Project:
“Music Psychotechnology as a New
Approach at the Cross-Roads of Sciences:
Cognitive Musicology and Practical
Psychology”

4. With Harriet Anna Mayor Fulbright (widow of United States Senator
J. William Fulbright), Wash. D.C., 1999

5. Main Points of Research on Music
Psychotechnique:
• Ear training - methodological trends and methods of
development good ear for music
• Ear training and modern ear training: how can we
make the difference?
• Ear training - using psychotechnologies: synesthetical
music listening
• Ear training - ways for timbre hearing: digital means
of contemporary education
• Ear training for better studying foreign languages:
new aspects of interdisciplinary approach
• Ear training - for the student creativity

6. The Major Tasks of the Research
• Collection of information about contemporary
works in the field of developing good ear for
music and musical perception which are held in
the leading educational institutions of the U.S.
• Gaining acquaintance with new investigations
on practical psychology which are conducted at
universities and specialized institutes.

7. The main publications as a
result of Fulbright
academic research
Solfeggio – a
psychotechnique of ear
training. (The monograph
was defended as Grand
Doctoral thesis in Moscow
2000). 3rd ed.- 2009

8. CHAPTER CONTENTS
• Chapter 1. Solfeggio as a music subject
• Chapter 2. Psychological aspects of good ear for music
• Chapter 3. Musical memory and the music pattern memorizing
• Chapter 4. Music notation difficulties and their overcoming
• Chapter 5. Good ear for intonation and the principles of
the intonation process
• Chapter 6. Good ear for mode perception
• Chapter 7. Good ear for music harmony
• Chapter 8. Good ear for tonality function system
• Chapter 9. The feeling of music rhythm
• Chapter 10. The main meta-strategies of the Ear Training process
• Chapter 11. Toward the problem of style perception

9. SUBMODALITIES OF SENSORY PERCEPTION
VISUAL AUDITORY KINESTHETIC
Color Pitch Movement
Brightness Tempo Weight
Shape Timbre Texture
Distance Duration Temperature
Contrast Dynamics Muscle feelings
Framing Resonance Pain feelings
Size Distance Smell
Movement Articulation Pressure
Clearness Mono/Stereo Taste

10. Some Conference Presentations
• 2012 – Musician and Internet: to the specificity of cognition of new
technologies in the professional humanities community. (Russian
State University for the Humanities).
• 2011 – Music language of the commercial trailers. HSE.
• 2011 – Using modern psychotechniques for ear training. Moscow.
• 2007 – Course of music sociology in HSE: specificity of
interdisciplinary contacts. Russian Gnesin Academy of Music.
• 2006 – If he is a native speaker? Optimization of intercultural
dialogue through adequate intoning. 4th Fulbright conference,
Volgograd.
• 2006. Perceiving foreign language melodically. The Asia TEFL 2006
International Conference "Spreading Our Wings: Meeting TEFL
Challenges". Fukuoka, Japan

11. Some Articles on Psychotecknics
• 2008. Ear Training as a Practical Aspect of Music
Cognition. Musiktheorie im Kontext. Berlin, S. 63-71
(in English)
• 2007. Music Patterns of Psychological Influence in
National Anthems". Der 18. Kongress der
Internationalen Gesellschaft fur Musikwissenschaft.
Zurich, 2007. P. 241 (in English)
• 2004. Steps in the Snow: Meta-programs of the new
Russian culture and their application in the field of
music marketing. Professionals for Cooperation,
Issue 6. Moscow. P. 197-228

12. Some Articles on Psychotecknics (2)
• 2005. Humanitarian and creative education in
Russia and un the U. S. The Proceedings of the
International Conference “Russian-American
Interrelations in the Context of Globalization”.
Moscow. P. 73-80
• 2004. Social psychocorrection by means of music.
Musicology and Globalization. Proceedings of
International Congress of the Musicological Society
of Japan. Shizuoka. P. 517-519 (in English)
• 2002. Components of music language in group and
individual psychocorrection. The 5th All-Russian
Conference on Psychotherapy and Clinic Psychology
in Theory and Practice. Moscow. P. 289-290

13. Author’s New Academical
Interdisciplinary Courses
• “Social psychology of music” in Moscow State
University
• “Sociology of music” in Higher School of
Economics
(2004-2012)

14. Interdisciplinary Course Social
Psychology of Music in MSU

15. Students of HSE study Music sociology

16. Master Classes
• Master-classes and lections on psychotechnology
of music cognition in Russia and abroad
(including Japan, China, Latvia, Israel).
• 2012 – activity as a coordinator and lecturer in
the State Ministry of Culture Project
“Kultura.RF” – for Internet lectures on the
portal “culture.ru

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18. Interdisciplinary Discussion Club in
Moscow Conservatory (Conservatory +
MSU + HSE)

19. Social Academic Activity
• Member and one of the conveners of the
Society for music Theory (OTM), founded in
2011, which contains from Russian and
American musicologists and music theorists.
• Preparation for participation in the 2nd
conference OTM to be held in St. Petersburg (fall
2013).

20. Russian-American Conference on Music
Theory (I.Hannanov, Baltimore, MD)

21. Ear Training And Linguistics – New
Ways of Combination
• Melodic and rhythmic patterns of verbal
language transform into music sounds: New
methodology of decoding
• Using verbal ear training in 2 ways:
- as a fine hearing and sight singing
- as a helper in the native speaker’s intonation
copying

22. Intoning Verbal American language

23. Interdisciplinary Course Sociology of Music in
HSE: Fulbright Scholars Interactivity

24. Other Social Fulbright Activity
(Fulbright conferences)

26. Contacting American Music Stars: with Van
Cliburn in Moscow conservatory 2007

27. Contacts
• http://www.mosconsv.ru/person.aspx?p_pageA
lias=Person&person_id=8816
• http://eng.mosconsv.ru/teachers/about.phtml?1
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• http://marinola.mylivepage.ru/
• e-mail: karaseva@mosconsv.ru
• tel./fax +7495 757 0629

28. Thank you for your attention!