Symposium Announcement and Call for Posters:
MUSIC SKILLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: RE-THINKING PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
CETL for Music and Inclusivity (Universities for the North East in
Association with The Sage Gateshead)
Wednesday 16 September 2009
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
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?
For more information see http://www.cetl4musicne.ac.uk/projects2.html.
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: [log in to unmask] for a booking form or visit
http://www.cetl4musicne.ac.uk/ to download the form. For travel information
please visit http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/music/contact/.
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 × 1189mm) or A1 (594mm × 841mm) in size.
Abstracts for posters (250-500 words) should be emailed to the Conference
Organiser, Dr Paul Fleet at [log in to unmask] 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.
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