Active Listening, Aural Imagination, and 19th-Century Program Music: An In-Class "Experiment"

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dc.contributor.authorZiegel, Aaron
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Musicen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-09T15:37:38Z
dc.date.available2019-09-09T15:37:38Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstract[From essay]: When teaching 19th-century Western art music to both music majors and general-education students alike, the debate between advocates for program music versus proponents of absolute music is a fundamental component in a student’s understanding of the Romantic era. The period’s composers and music critics, as we well know, had plenty to say about the topic, and this primary source commentary provides one pillar of that understanding. Analysis of music examples makes for a second pillar. But experiencing precisely how music, through aural means alone, can convey to its auditors an image, feeling, or idea of something remains a much more elusive notion. This essay will share one possible in-class approach to exploring that topic—an approach that aims to foster a link between a conceptual understanding drawn from various primary-source quotations and an engaged listening activity that encourages students to “see with the mind’s ear” (if you will pardon the mixed metaphor). An experience such as this allows students to approach music listening not as a challenge to their patience and attention spans, but rather it suggests, as Charles D. Morrison has argued, “that engaged music listening is itself a form of ‘creative activity’”en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.flipcamp.org/engagingstudents2/essays/ziegel.htmlen_US
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dc.format.extent4 pagesen_US
dc.genreessaysen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2etdp-vcew
dc.identifier.citationZiegel, Aaron. "Active Listening, Aural Imagination, and 19th-Century Program Music: An In-Class 'Experiment'.” Collected Work: Engaging students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 2 (2014). http://flipcamp.org/engagingstudents2/essays/ziegel.htmlen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/14512
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherRILMen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEngaging students: Essays in music pedagogy.;volume 2
dc.rightsAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectMusic listeningen_US
dc.subjectMusic -- 19th century -- Study and teachingen_US
dc.subjectTeaching toolsen_US
dc.subjectAural imaginationen_US
dc.titleActive Listening, Aural Imagination, and 19th-Century Program Music: An In-Class "Experiment"en_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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