Steven Cornelius and Mary Natvig, Music: A Social Experience

Mary Paquette-Abt Wayne State University/University of Windsor

Keywords: Reviews, textbooks, music appreciation

Abstract

The boldest element of Music: A Social Experience is the idea that music is meaningful through its social role. The text offers a topic-driven, semester-long course of study for non-music majors that is inclusive of popular and world musics, as well as Western art music. The accompanying instructor’s manual was writen by the authors, who are leading thinkers on the scholarship of pedagogy, and is of tremendous value. The supplemental online materials, Pearson’s MySearchLab, however, are still evolving.

Author Biography

Mary Paquette-Abt, Wayne State University/University of Windsor

Mary Paquette-Abt (PhD, University of Chicago) studies sacred and secular vocal music in early seventeenth-century Rome, and the music of the United States, particularly Detroit, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Michigan State University, Louisiana State University, and currently Wayne State University and the University of Windsor. Her published reviews have appeared in the Journal of Musicological Research and Early Music, and she has presented papers at both national and chapter meetings of the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society Congress, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. At present she serves as editorial assistant for the on-line Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Published

2012-09-11

Issue

Vol 3 No 1: (Fall 2012)

Section

Reviews

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