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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-SCHEDULE-PREPARATORY MATERIALS
NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://soundmusicresearch.org/PHD_Course_L-S-L.html
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 26, 2010.
Course Description:
Course instructors Westney and Grund each have used film clips, live musical performances, playacting, etc. in their university teaching - quite independently and over a period of many years. In many ways their intentions as pedagogues have been somewhat different due to the nature of the subjects they have been presenting: piano pedagogy and performance on the one hand v. philosophy on the other. Each has discovered certain techniques that work and don't work, and what the opportunities and pitfalls may be when using media and performance. Most importantly, both educators believe that such media use is far more than entertainment or diversion; it can truly bring material to life in a compelling way and strengthen the students' grasp of it.
Westney's experience as a music professor is of direct relevance to the ongoing debate regarding the master-apprentice model for pedagogy in general: this model, strongly based on teaching through live demonstration, has been the dominant paradigm for instruction in classical music for generations. (He is fourth-generation in a master/apprentice ancestry which can be traced back to Chopin.) Westney has been analyzing this style of pedagogy for decades, sensing that there were important ethical concerns involved and which had not been sufficiently addressed. These findings will be applied to pedagogy in a general sense in this PhD course. In the context of the traditional mode of master teacher in classical music education, using examples to show "here's what's wrong about what you are doing" or "here is a better way" has been a deeply (if often subtly) shaming, rather than educating process, which Westney has undertaken to revise. The results of his work will be presented during this course.
Grund has found that the use of examples from cinema and television - particularly science fiction, horror and weird fiction - often function very well to provide students with a context in which to frame and articulate the often abstruse and complex concepts and theories that characterize academic philosophy. The narrative nature of the examples deliberately foregrounds certain aspects of problem complexes more clearly than others. Such examples become excellent sources for class discussion, opening up many-faceted and often subtle perspectives. These insights can be useful as the students then grapple with the philosophical literature itself and search for points of entry into often age-old debates. In teaching courses in aesthetics and the philosophy of music, Grund has also found live piano performance to be useful as a means of exemplification. Her findings resulting from twenty years of work with this sort of exemplificatory pedagogy will be presented during this course.
The course will be conducted in English.
Any questions concerning the contents of this course should be directed to: Cynthia M. Grund, cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk. Information is available here on http://www.soundmusicresearch.org/PhD_Course.html and will be continuously updated
This course will have a seminar/workshop format, so 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.
Registration no later than March 26, 2010 by e-mail to Marianne.Lysholt@ifpr.sdu.dk. State your name, place of employment, phone number and title of the PhD-project. Deadline for submission of paper: March 26, 2010
Course coordinator: Associate Professor Cynthia M. Grund
Descriptions of the individual lectures, course schedule and preparatory material for the course is available at http://soundmusicresearch.org/PHD_Course_L-S-L.html; as much as possible has been made available via links. For more information regarding Westney’s work, please see http://www.williamwestney.com. For an introduction to William Westney as H.C. Andersen Guest Professor, please see http://www.soundmusicresearch.org/HCA_Prof.html. For more information regarding Grund’s work, please see http://www.cynthiamgrund.dk.
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
March 7, 2010: .pdf-version of the program for Music, Meaning and Gesture - including schedule, lecture descriptions and readings - is now available.
Please click here.
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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