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LECTURES-SCHEDULE-PREPARATORY MATERIALS
FOR
Pedagogy as Performance: Fostering Intellectual Rigor through Presentations that Incorporate Live and Electronic Performance Media
PhD Course, April 7 – 8, 2010 in U77, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense.
Speakers:
William Westney, H.C. Andersen Guest Professor, SDU; Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University.
Cynthia M. Grund, Associate Professor of Philosophy, IFPR-SDU.
Lectures:
Wednesday, April 7
William Westney, H.C. Andersen Guest Professor, SDU; Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University.
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The Master-teacher Model: To Demonstrate or Not to Demonstrate? Pros and Cons of a Conservatory Tradition. (Lecture/demonstration at the piano.)
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Re-packaging Popular Media as an Instructional Tool.
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Music Teachers on Film: Evaluating Their Use of Demonstration,and Its Effect on the Lesson. Video footage of Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian and Nelita True.
Thursday, April 8
Cynthia M. Grund, Associate Professor of Philosophy, IFPR-SDU.
The Lowest Common Denominator? "Philosophy and American Television" as a Means for Teaching Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics.
Three-part all-day lecture liberally illustrated with video clips from American television from the ´50's until the present day.
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Philosophy and American Television: General Themes.
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Philosophy and American Television: Spotlight on the Problem of Personal Identity.
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Aesthetic Challenges in the Worlds of Star Trek: The Emergency Medical Hologram (Series- Star Trek Voyager) og Androiden Data (Series- Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Case Studies
Schedule:
Wednesday, April 7
(Please note: all times are precise.)
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture 1
11:15 -12:15 Lecture 2
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:30 Student presentatons and discussion.* (If there is not sufficient student-driven material to fill up this time slot, each instructor has a rich supply of additional material with which to expand upon the lecture themes of the day.)
14:45-15:45 Lecture 3
15:45-16:00 Concluding Discussion and Plans for Thursday, April 8
Thursday, April 8
(Please note: all times are precise.)
10:00-11:00 Lecture 1
11:15 -12:15 Lecture 2
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:30 Student presentations and discussion.* (If there is not sufficient student-driven material to fill up this time slot, each instructor has a rich supply of additional material with which to expand upon the lecture themes of the day.)
14:45-15:45 Lecture 3
15:45-16:00 Concluding Discussion
* Since this course will have a seminar/workshop format, students are welcome to present papers (10-15 pages in length) and/or to present live and electronic performance media which they are considering for use in pedagogical contexts or with which they have had experiences in pedagogical contexts. Participation without a paper or presentation is also welcome.
Preparatory Material
(Materials additional to those listed below which might prove useful during the course will be handed out as the course progresses.)
For Wednesday, April 7
Westney, William (2003 hardcover/2006 paperback). The Perfect Wrong Note. Pompton Plains, New Jersey: Amadeus Press. Chapters 2 and 8, pp.29-50; pp.153-17
Documentary about William Westney's Un-Master Class, filmed at Alsion Concert Hall in Sønderborg November 24, 2009 and broadcast for the first time on ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV during the week of February 8, 2010. http://www.aabenraa-lokal-tv.dk/wp/2010/02/08/3242/
(Click on "2005 - Article of the Year" to read the article.)
An interview with William Westney is the cover article in the May/June 2009 issue of Clavier Companion magazine. Click here to read the article.
For Thursday, April 8
In addition to
Grund, Cynthia M. (1996) “De 12 spørgsmål: Nogle tanker om science fiction-film og filosofi.” Inquirer Nr. 59/60 Juni, 28-30. Forlag: Institut for Film, TV og Kommunikation, Københavns Universitet Amager, ISSN 0907-7960. http://www.philpopculture.dk/Inquirer_artikel.pdf (In Danish):
Grund, Cynthia M. (2005) "Four Pages of Meat-and-Potatoes and Philosophy" http://www.philpopculture.dk/Four_Pages_of_Meat-and-Potatoes_Philosophy.pdf
Grund, Cynthia M. (2005) The Twelve Questions http://www.philpopculture.dk/overhead2.pdf
Olson, Eric T., "Personal Identity", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2002/entries/identity-personal/,
all of which were used in the two courses, these Blackboard sites contain selected PowerPoint slides from each of the the thirteen lectures comprising each course (26 in all) and exemplify the way that the audiovisual material was integrated in the teaching of the courses. If you are not already in the SDU BlackBoard system - which will allow Cynthia M Grund to register you on these sights - please get in touch with Cynthia at cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk, so that a SDU-Blackboard username and password can be assigned to you for this course.
Is Data Human?: The Metaphysics of Star Trek, Richard Hanley, Basic Books, 1997.
The Simpsons and Philosophy, eds. William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, & Aeon J. Skoble, Open Court, 2001.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, ed. James B. South, Open Court, 2003.
The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am, eds. Richard Greene and Peter Vernezze, Open Court, 2004.
. . . all of which were used liberally in these two courses.
ECTS: 3 with paper, 1 without paper
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Institute of Philosophy,
Education and the Study
of Religions
Research Director for
The Aesthetics of
Music and Sound:
Cynthia M. Grund
cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk
Updates
February 27, 2010: Norwegian coverage of NNIMIPA.
On February 22 2010, the Norwegian cultural site www.kulturkompasset.com began running a story here after the NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance an Aesthetics coordination meeting in Oslo at the Department of Musicology, during which William Westney gave a concert, an Un-Master Class and participated in a variety of motion-capture experiments designed to shed light on the role of gesture in musical performance.
February 22, 2010: New comprehensive website for NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of MusicInformatics, Performance and Aesthetics.
For more information regarding NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, the network behind Music, Meaning and Gesture, please see www.nnimipa.org.
February 21, 2010: Course schedule now up for NordPlus-sponsored Nordic Master's Course on Music, Meaning and Gesture, SDU-Odense March 22-26, 2010.
After a productive coordination meeting in Oslo February 18-19, there is now a course schedule available here for Music, Meaning and Gesture. Please check regularly for updated information.
February 15, 2010: Televised documentary "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with WILLIAM WESTNEY and CYNTHIA M. GRUND.
During the week of February 15-February 22, 2010, ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV will be airing "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS). To view the documentary on ALTV's homepage, please click here. This program includes interviews with Westney and Grund, gives an overview of the activities of AMS, tells the story behind William Westney's connection with the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and includes clips from the conference held at SDU-Odense on November 6, 2009: Art and/or Entertainment? The Fifth Anniversary Conference on Philosophy and Popular Culture.
February 8, 2010: Televised documentary on the Un-Master Class with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS) hopes that everyone has experienced a good start to the spring semester, 2010. We are pleased to present more television coverage of the activities of William Westney during his tenure as H.C. Andersen Guest Professor her at the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at SDU 2009-2010. This time it is a documentary about William Westney's Un-Master Class, filmed at Alsion Concert Hall in Sønderborg November 24, 2009 and broadcast for the first time on ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV during the week of February 8, 2010. To view the documentary, please click here in order to access the segment directly on ALT's homepage.
To keep up with what is going on in AMS during the spring semester of 2010, please keep and eye on the "Events" page - you can click here - for details as these become available.
January 5, 2010: Televised concert with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and is pleased to bring you a New Year's concert. ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast a concert with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney recorded live on November 24, 2009 at Alsion Concert Hall, Sønderborg. To view the program as a pdf-file, please click here. To see and hear the concert, please click here. The broadcast is of the concert in its entirety and divided into two parts. The first part contains music by Haydn, Fauré, Liszt, Harburg/Arlen, and Arlen as well as the first piece by Gershwin. The second part contains the Gershwin/Wild Fantasy on Porgy and Bess and the Burgmüller encore.
November 30, 2009: TV interview with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast the first of a series of interviews with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney. To view the clip, please click here.
Archive
for "Updates": Click here.
(Includes the description of the SDU-IFPR research program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound which initially appeared online in Danish as Musikkens og Lydens Aestetik during the fall of 2006.)
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