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Teaching modern music
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"Twentieth-century music" is a phrase fraught with associations and preconceptions. I entered my years as a college music major certain that the classical music of this century was of little value. At best it was a bitter pill: the brussels sprouts of classical music-necessary to understand, difficult to appreciate, impossible to love. I considered myself finished with the topic before I had even begun my formal education. Seventeen years later, if I were to list my dozen or so "desert island...
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Classical: `I'm on earth to play the cello' At a distance from the frenetic hype of modern music marketing, Sandy Baillie's playing and teaching carries conviction through its quiet passion. By Sue Fox
The Independent - London
; ... full of the feel-good factor. Listening to music is a great way of spending the limited ... would open a kind of 24-hour classical music version of Ronnie Scott's, which he believes ... Professor at London's Royal College of Music, Professor of Cello at the Bremen Hochschule ...
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Computer as teaching tool strikes a chord in music classes
The Boston Globe
; WASHINGTON -- Roger McRea is a modern day Music Man. Like Prof. Harold Hill, the ... From elementary schools with tiny music education budgets to advanced programs ... as those at Berklee College of Music, the computer is becoming a helpful, sometimes even essential, teaching tool. "Part of the ...
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Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology: New Windows on the Medieval World.
Notes
; ... instructor's manual (9 CDs), $45.] Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology is a package of instructional ... to enhance the study of medieval music and poetry in courses of all levels ... National Endowment for the Humanities, Teaching Medieval Lyric focuses on three ... repertories: troubadour ...
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MAKING MUSIC Teaching program in Hingham has roots in Boston Conservatory
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; 10-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM HINGHAM A music program that has its roots in The ... Hingham. Teachers from Conservatory Teaching in Your Community, led by G. Frederick ... pianist, are giving lessons at Hingham Music on Route 3A. The program began in ... years ago. It is now an independent music school, but some of ...
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MEET THE MIDDLE AGES: Augsburg College's medieval course bends the rules of modern teaching and brings history lessons to life by having the students live in 12th century Europe for a few hours a week.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
; ... taught at a Lutheran college with seven professors and 22 students who, for a few hours each week, lock out the modern world to pretend they live in 12th century Europe. Launched two years ago, the course's popularity led Augsburg ... kindled interest in offering more classes taught by several professors working ...
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