Does the focus on tonal and rhythm audiation mean that the other elements of music are ignored?
Not at all. MLT’s emphasis on tonal and rhythm is not meant to suggest that musical elements such as timbre, phrasing, expression and style are unimportant. The traditional model serves well for teaching these nonsyntactical musical elements, for which sequence is less important than it is for tonal and rhythm elements. A teacher who implements MLT for teaching tonal and rhythm skills is likely to approach the other musical elements in much the same way as any other capable music teacher.
