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GALENE (Galin) Pierre (1786, Samatan, dep. Jer - 31 VIII1821, Bordeaux) - French. music and math teacher. In 1817, he instituted in Bordeaux courses of a simplified method of initial training in music, named. them meloplast. He substantiated his principle in the pamphlet “The exposition of a new method of teaching music” (“L'exposition d'une nouvelle methode pour l'enseignement de la musique”, 1818), having won many others. supporters. The student and follower G.-E. Lemoine (1795, the year of his death, unknown), who taught by his method, reprinted this work under the title. “The method of meloplast” (Methode du meloplaste, P., 1924, 1831). Later G.'s method was developed by E. Sheve and received the name. G.-Sheve method. I.M. Yampolsky.