Teaching Music History

by Natvig,Mary; Natvig,Mary

• ISBN13: 9780754601296
• ISBN10: 0754601293
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-02-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of essays provides advice and guidance to those who teach a college-level music history or music appreciation course, be they a graduate student setting out on their teaching career, or a seasoned professor having to teach outside his or her speciality.Divided into four sections, the book covers the basic music history survey usually taken by music majors; music appreciation and introductory courses aimed at non-majors; special topic courses such as women and music, music for film and American music; and more general issues such as writing, using anthologies, and approaches to teaching in various situations.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Approaches to the Music History Survey
Providing Context: Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Music	3	(10)
Patrick Macey
Teaching Baroque Music to the Bright and Interested and Ignorant	13	(12)
Kenneth Nott
What Chopin (and Mozart and Others) Heard: Folk, Popular, ``Functional,'' and Non-Western Music in the Classic/Romantic Survey Course	25	(18)
Ralph P. Locke
Teaching Music History (After the End of History): ``History Games'' for the Twentieth-Century Survey	43	(26)
Robert Fink
Teaching Non-Majors: The Introductory Course
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Introduction to Music Course	69	(8)
Maria Archetto
The ``Why'' of Music: Variations on a Cosmic Theme	77	(18)
Marjorie Roth
First Nights: Awakening Students' Critical Skills in a Large Lecture Course	95	(16)
Noel Bisson
Topics Courses
Teaching ``Women in Music''	111	(10)
Mary Natvig
Teaching Film Music in the Liberal Arts Curriculum	121	(24)
Michael Pisani
Don't Fence Me In: The Pleasures of Teaching in American Music	145	(12)
Susan C. Cook
General Issues
Teaching at a Liberal Arts College	157	(12)
Mary Hunter
Teaching in the Centrifugal Classroom	169	(12)
Pamela Starr
The Myths of Music History	181	(12)
Vincent Corrigan
Score and Word: Writing about Music	193	(12)
Carol A. Hess
Peer Learning in Music History Courses	205	(20)
J. Peter Burkholder
Creating Anthologies for the Middle Ages and Renaissance	225	(14)
Russell E. Murray, Jr.
Bibliography	239	(20)
Index	259