Vitalizing Music History Teaching: Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music

Table of Contents



Table of Examples and References ix



Copyright Acknowledgements xv



L. Michael Griffel

Foreword xix



James R. Briscoe

Editor's Preface xxi



Contributors xxv



Teaching Principles

Michael Beckerman

How Can You Teach What You Don't Know?

. . . and Other Tales from Music History Pedagogy 3



Per F. Broman

The Good, the True, and the Professional:

Teaching Music History in an Age of Excess 19



Gavin Douglas

Some Thoughts on Teaching Music History

from an Ethnomusicological Perspective 27



James Parakilis

Texts, Contexts, and Non-Texts

in Music History Pedagogy 45



Douglass Seaton

Teaching Music History:

Principles, Problems, and Proposals 59



Sandra L. Stauffer

Process, Passion, People:

Pedagogical Notes for Musician-Scholar-Educators 73



Wade Weast

Music History Teaching in the Twenty-First Century:

An Administrator's Perspective 85



Teaching Strategies

C. Matthew Balensuela

Music History/History of Theory: Dynamic Tensions

between Theory and Composition in the Classical Era 93



James R. Briscoe

Avoiding the Slough of Despond,

or, Teaching by Touchstone 105



Susan C. Cook

Teaching Others, Others Teaching,

or Music History Like It Mattered 125



Barbara Russano Hanning

Teaching Music History through Art 139



Teaching Content

Robin Elliott

Teaching Canadian Music

in Undergraduate Music History Courses 163



Jessie Fillerup

Cage & the Chaotic Classroom:

Pedagogy for the Avant-garde 177



Jeanne Halley

A Mysterious Lacuna:

Reconsidering the Exclusion of French

Baroque Music and Dance from the Curricula 189