TEACHING MUSIC HISTORY DAY

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Preliminary Program: 

8:30-9:00
Coffee and Conversation
9:00-10:00

Welcome and Introductions

  • Panel:  Teaching Music History to Performers: Report from the Juilliard Conference and  Ideas Going Forward
  • Allison Alcorn, Trinity University
  • Daniel Burdick, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
  • Phillip Thomas, Lee University
10:00-11:15 

Session I

  • Eric Hung, Westminster Choir College, “Completing the Circle: From Performance to History to Performance”
  • Paul Borg, Illinois State University, “Engaging Graduate Performance Students in Music History Classes”
  • Dina Lentsner, Capital University Conservatory of Music, “Theoretically Speaking: Teaching Music History Through Intertextuality”
11:30-12:30

Roundtable:  Teaching Music History from Other Disciplinary Starting Points

  • Robert Hatten, Indiana University
  • David Hertz, Indiana University
  • Sharon Parr, University of Indianapolis
  • Nicholas Roth, Drake University
Lunch in the area
2:00-3:00

Keynote Address:  Melanie Lowe, Vanderbilt University

 

Melanie Lowe is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music and Chair of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology.  Her research focuses on how music imparts meaning and is made meaningful in both historical and contemporary cultures.  At the moment she is writing about music in American presidential politics as well as constructions of difference in 18th-century European music. In spring, 2008 she was the first recipient of the Rev. James Lawson Lectureship at Vanderbilt and used the honorary position to teach about music’s role in the ongoing immigration debate in the United States. Professor Lowe has won several teaching awards, including Vanderbilt’s Madison Sarratt Prize for excellence in undergraduate education and Princeton University’s Graduate Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award.    
3:00-4:15

Session II

  • Sarah Day-O’Connell, Knox College “Integrating ‘Survey’ and ‘Topic’ Course Designs in Music History Curricula”
  • Kristy Swift, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, “Teaching Graduate Students to Teach: ‘Music History Pedagogy, Theory and Practice’”
  • Lars Helgert, Shenandoah Conservatory, “Teaching the World Music Survey: Approaches for Non-Specialists”
4:15 – 5:00
Open Forum for Participants:
Moderator: Matthew Balensuela, DePauw University

 

For more information, contact Matthew Balensuela, professor of music, DePauw University.