Historical Thinking and Individual Creativity: Teaching Primary Sources on Performance
Abstract
“Historical thinking,†an approach formulated by Sam Wineburg and others in the field of general history, encourages students to engage with primary sources in a way that prompts questions, rather than settling for easy answers. This approach can be brought to bear on the field of performance practice, in which a range of primary sources—notated examples, treatises, and aesthetic criticism—provides a complex picture of the past. This complexity, and the resulting recognition that historical performance practice involved an array of possible realizations, can help to foster an individual, creative approach to informed performance.
Published
2019-02-02
Section
Roundtable
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