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Education 469-4

Music Education as Thinking in Sound

Fall, 1986

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Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker

Wednesdays, 4:30 - 8:20

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Location: MPX 7610

The main purpose of this course is to take an "in-depth" look at many issues

and techniques to Music Education in the classroom.

Topics to be covered include:

1)

Music and mulU-culturalism

2) Music and the media

3)

Music and aesthetics in Education

4) What does Music Education mean for the late 20th Century?

5)

The relative importance of musical literacy and its cultural context

6) Learning about music through practical activities in the classroom -

including composition, improvisation, writing musical scores.

7) Computers and Music Education

8)

Digital synthesizers in the classroom

9)

Identifying differences and similarities between the needs of a general

musical education for all and the specialist training for intending

musicians.

10)Developing

suitable curricula for music education in the classroom in the

light of items 1 thru 9 above, and examining the Provincial curriculum

guides in music.

Course content will include, lectures, seminars and practical workshop

activity. Approximately two thirds of the course will be spent on practical

workshop activities in compositional and improvisational techniques for the

classroom, developing and trying out various classroom teaching techniques.

Students will familiarize themselves with a wide variety of computer

programs for classroom use, including developing literacy and musical

concepts, creative music masking, inventing your own instrumental sound,

and composing at the computer. The use of digital synthesizers, linked to

computers, and various acoustic instruments will form a part of the practical

work.

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cluired Reading List:

R. Walker Music Education - tradition and innovation Thomas, Springfield,

U.S.A.

R. Walker Sound Projects. Oxford University Press.

Various papers and reports will be given out during the course to provide

extensive reading to back up the practical work.

Assessment will be through assignments, both written and practical, and a

project.