COURSE CALENDAR and READINGS

Week 1
8/23

Introduction to the Course

Week 2
8/30

Art as Experience by John Dewey

Chapters as assigned.

Week 3
Just a Bit of History
9/6
Simpson, Kenneth. Ed. Some Great Music Educators
Chaps. 1 & 2 Antiquity and Rousseau
Chaps. 3 & 4 Galin-Paris-Cheve and Curwen
Chaps. 5 & 6 Trotter and Dalcroze
Chaps. 7 & 8 Macpherson, Read, Scholes, and Ward
Chaps. 9 & 10 Kodaly and Orff

Week 4
Musical Thinking
9/13
Bordman, Eunice. Ed. Dimensions of Musical Thinking
Forward, Chaps. 1 & 2 Kabelo
Chaps. 3, 4, & 5 Andre
Chaps. 6, 7, & 9 Kylie
Chaps. 8 & 10 Hasmig
Chaps. 11 & 12 Erica

Week 5
Musical Thinking cont.
9/20
Swanwick, Keith. Musical Knowledge
Part 1 Musical Knowledge and Value
Part 2 Researching Musical Experience
Part 3 Musical Learning and Musical Teaching
Swanwick, Kieth. Teaching Music Musically
Chaps. 1 & 2 On value and Culture
Cooke, Deryck. The Language of Music
Preface and Chap. 1 What Kind of an Art is Music

Week 6
Problems of Art
9/27
Langer, Susanne. Problems of Art
Chapters 1 & 2: The Dynamic Image; Expressiveness
Chapters 3 & 4: Expressiveness; Creation
Chapters 5 & 6: Natural Light; Relationships among the Arts
Chapters 7 & 8: Imitation and Transformation; Creative Devices
Chapters 9 & 10: The Art Symbol; Poetic Creation

Week 7
On Matters of Diversity and Culture
10/4
Jorgensen, Estelle. In Search of Music Education:
Chapter 2: On Spheres of Musical Validity One person
Chapter 3: A Dialectical View of Music Education One person
Swanwick, Keith. Music Mind and Education: One person
Chapter 6: The Cultural Exclusiveness of Music
Chapter 7: Music Education in a Pluralist Society
Greene, Maxine. Variations on A Blue Guitar: One person
Part IV: Cultural Diversity and Community
Leaving Imprints on the Changing Face of the World
We Have Found the Wonders of Difference
I wonder at How Unaware I was of So Many Changing Frequencies
Langer, Susanne. Philosophical Sketches: One person
Chapter 3: The Cultural Importance of Art
Chapter 4: Scientific Civilization and Cultural Crisis

Week 8
On Matters of Diversity and Culture cont.
10/11
Blacking, John. How Musical is Man?
Preface and Chap 1: Humanly Organized Sound
Chapter 2: Music in Society and Culture
Chapter 3: Culture and Society in Music
Chapter 4: Soundly Organized Humanity
Small, Christopher. Music Society, Education
Chapter 2: Music Outside Europe
Two Non-European Musical Cultures

Week 9
On Matters of Diversity and Culture cont.
10/18
Essay from the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 65 No.1 Winter 2007:
Islamic Aesthetics 69-74
The Sounding of the WorldGong Music of Vietnam 11-19
AestheticJavanese Gamelan Music 31-40
Boyea, Andrea: Teaching Native American with Story for Multicultural Ends in The Philosophy of
Music Education Review, Vol. 8 No. 1 (Spring 2000): 14-23.
Walker, Robert. Multiculturalism and Music Re-attached to Music Education in The Philosophy of
Music Education Review, Vol. 8 No. 1 (Spring 2000): 31- 40.
Week 10
On the Future of Music Teaching
10/25
Madsen Clifford, Ed. Vison 2020
Beginning thru pg. 54
Pages 57 thru 107
Pages 111 thru 152
Pages 153 thru 190
Pages 191 to the end, especially 219-220.
Week 11
On the Future of Music Teaching cont.
11/1
Fowler, Charles. Strong Arts, Strong Schools
Part 2: Justification
Part 3: Curriculum
Part 4: Reform
Swanwick, Kieth. Teaching Music Musically
Chapter 3: Principles of Music Education
Jorgensen, Estelle. The Art of Teaching Music
Chapter 14 Reality and Afterword
Week 12
On the Future of Music Teaching cont.
11/8
Jorgensen, Estelle. Transforming Music Education
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
Chapter 2: Justifying Transformation
Chapter 3: Transforming Education, p. 76 note especially what transformation is and is not
Chapter 4: Transforming Music
Chapter 5: Creating Alternatives
Week 13 & 14; Nov. 15 & 22: Students Selections
Week 16, Nov. 29. Wrap-Up