Symposium Announcement and Call for Posters:
MUSIC SKILLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: RE-THINKING PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
The CETL for Music and Inclusivity, led by Newcastle University, is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on the teaching of Music Skills, to be held on 16 September 2009. By Music Skills we mean the tool-box of techniques such as aural training, analytic listening and comprehension, score reading and writing, harmony, counterpoint etc. The symposium is prompted by the recognition that traditional approaches to teaching and learning in these areas are in need of revision, given the increasing diversity of Music undergraduates’ backgrounds (including popular and vernacular musics) and experience prior to Higher Education. We ask, What are these students’ needs, How can we help them in the transition into HE, and How might HE Music curricula need to be reconsidered in this light?
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Guest speakers include:
- Rosemary Golding (Oxford Brookes University) on ‘Why study music? Historical perspectives on status and identity’
- Joe Bennett (Bath Spa University) on ‘Bassoonists don’t play the blues - pedagogical alternatives to clef-based systems’
- Freya Jarman-Ivens (University of Liverpool) on ‘Thoughts on a first year music analysis module: bringing students up to scratch by rethinking the definition of “scratch”’.
The symposium will be held in the Music Department at Newcastle University and to register your attendance at the symposium please contact Kitty Porteous: Catherine.Porteous@newcastle.ac.uk for a booking form or visit http://www.cetl4musicne.ac.uk/ to download the form.
CALL FOR POSTERS
Participants are invited to submit a poster as part of an afternoon discussion forum. The deadline for poster proposals is Friday 31 July 2009. Posters can address a range of topics including the practical, technical, theoretical, technological, cultural and historical teaching of popular and classical musics that are and have been used to empower music students throughout their HE learning. Suggested topics include the value of notation, the role of technology, new pedagogical approaches, and transition management in Classical, Popular and Folk degree programmes. The posters must be must be either A0 (841mm x 1189mm) or A1 (594mm x 841mm) in size.
Abstracts for posters (250-500 words) should be emailed to the Conference Organiser, Dr Paul Fleet at p.w.fleet@ncl.ac.uk. Submissions will be reviewed by a selection panel drawn from the CETL project team, and you will be notified regarding acceptance by e-mail no later than Friday, 14th August 2009.
