The Pedagogy of the Pedagogy of Music Appreciation

Edward Hafer University of Southern Mississippi

Keywords: Music Appreciation Pedagogy, Community Engagement

Abstract

The Pedagogy of Music Appreciation course at the University of Southern Mississippi is designed to prepare graduate students in music performance to teach music appreciation classes at the college level. This essay addresses the need for such a course, suggests ways to organize it, and offers reflections from both students and community members who benefited from the free Music Appreciation course administered by the pedagogy students. The course syllabus and sample assignments are also discussed.

Author Biography

Edward Hafer, University of Southern Mississippi

Edward Hafer, Assistant Professor of Music History, holds a BA in Music History and Literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the MM and PhD in Historical Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has had additional training at Millersville University (PA); Goethe Institutes in Düsseldorf and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany; and he has participated in William Kinderman’s seminar on the works of Richard Wagner at the University of Bayreuth. Hafer’s research interests lie in the music and aesthetics of the nineteenth century. He has presented and/or published research on Wagner, Schubert, Music and Painting, and Music History Pedagogy. During the summer term, he leads a study-abroad course, “Vienna: City of Music, 1781–1827.”

Published

2012-07-27

Issue

Vol 3 No 1: (Fall 2012)

Section

Reports and Practices

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