Keynote Address: Musicology and Music Pedagogy: An Unnatural Divorce (Bologna, May 29–30, 2014)

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

Abstract

This article is the opening address to the conference Musicians and Musicologists as Teachers: How to Construct Musical Comprehension for Students (Alma Mater Studiorum—Università di Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, 29 May 2014). This article will soon be published also in Italian, in a special issue of the online journal Musica Docta (2015), http://musicadocta.unibo.it.

Author Biography

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
2014-08-21
Issue
Vol 5 No 1: (Fall 2014)
Section
Conference Report

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