Conference Report: Musicians and Musicologists as Teachers: How to Construct Musical Comprehension for Students (Bologna, May 29–30, 2014)

  • Nicola Badolato University of Bologna Department of the Arts
  • Giuseppina La Face University of Bologna Department of the Arts
Keywords: music medagogy, didactics, history of music

Abstract

On May 29–30, 2014, an international conference took place in Bologna, “Musicians and Musicologists as Teachers: How to Construct Musical Comprehension for Students.†The meeting, promoted in collaboration with the Associazione “Il Saggiatore musicale†and the Department of the Arts (University of Bologna), marked the opening of the newly founded Study Group “Trasmission of Musical Knowledge as a Primary Aim in Music Education,†launched in November 2012 by the International Musicological Society.

Author Biographies

Nicola Badolato, University of Bologna Department of the Arts

Nicola Badolato received his PhD in Musicology from the University of Bologna in 2007. In 2009 he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Music, Yale University. His research focuses on Italian Opera in the seventeenth-century and music pedagogy. He is the author of I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2012), and is one of the text editors for the serie Francesco Cavalli: Opere (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2012 ff.), as well as the libretto editor for its inaugural volume, La Calisto. He is currently working on a project about Filippo Juvarra’s opera productions in Rome (Fondazione 1563, Turin). In the field of music pedagogy, he has published articles on Musica Docta; he acts as co-editor (with Giuseppina La Face) for a series of musical articles in Nuova Secondaria (Brescia: La Scuola), a fortnightly magazine for teachers at the secondary school level.

Giuseppina La Face, University of Bologna Department of the Arts

Giuseppina La Face is Professor of Music History and Music Pedagogy at the University of Bologna, and head of the Department of the Arts since 2007. She has been editor-in-chief of the international musicological journal Il Saggiatore musicale (Florence: Leo S. Olschki) since 1994. In 2007 she founded the Group for Music Education (“SagGEMâ€), which is open to musicologists as well as to school, conservatory, and university teachers. Since 2010 she has been working as editor-in-chief of Musica Docta, a digital peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to music pedagogy and music education. She has published on fifteenth-century secular polyphony, on Schubert (La casa del mugnaio: ascolto e interpretazione della Schöne Müllerin, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003; German transl., Vienna: Praesens, 2014), and on the Didactics of Listening (Musica e Storia, XIV/3, 2006). Since 2012 she has served as chair of the IMS Study Group on “Transmission of Knowledge as a Primary Aim in Music Education.â€

Published
2014-08-05
Issue
Vol 5 No 1: (Fall 2014)
Section
Conference Report

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