In Favor of a Skills-Based Approach to Music Appreciation: Pedagogy and Personal History

  • Robin Wallace Baylor University

Abstract

This essay describes the ways the student population has changed during my lifetime and the pedagogical style I have developed to address those changes: a style that has shaped the writing of my own new text, Take Note: An Introduction to Music through Active Listening, which is being readied for its launch next year by Oxford University Press.

Author Biography

Robin Wallace, Baylor University
Robin Wallace is Professor of Musicology at Baylor University. He is the author of numerous publications on the critical reception of Beethoven and on music journals of the early nineteenth century. He is currently writing a new music appreciation textbook for Oxford University Press.
Published
2013-07-21
Issue
Vol 4 No 1: (Fall 2013)
Section
Roundtable

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