Teaching Music History

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'The great value of Mary Natvig's anthology Teaching Music History is that it forces those in the discipline to re-examine our own teaching practices. Chapters are devoted to music appreciation, the music history sequence for majors, specialty courses such as American Music and Film music, and issues such as writing about music and teaching in liberal arts colleges. These approaches -- many of them truly refreshing and provocative -- will have the potential to invigorate and transform tired syllabi and presentations. Natvig's book should be required reading for all who teach this subject on the post-secondary level, from first-year teaching assistants in Music Appreciation to senior professors in view of retirement.' Jonathan Bellman, Chair, Department of Music History and Literature, University of Northern Colorado, USA. 'We music history teachers, who are musicians and scholars by training but pedagogues by profession, are perpetually confronted with the gap between experiencing music and talking or writing about it. Teaching Music History, which never loses sight of the students we strive to teach, should help us narrow that gap.' Richard Crawford, Hans T. David Distinguished University Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan, USA. '... this anthology brings together a kind of 'collective wisdom' and a fount of experience that should prove an essential resource for college-level faculty. I hope it will quickly find its way into syllabi of those graduate musicology programs that value the teaching of instructional methods and onto the bookshelves of veteran teachers as well.' Notes ' I found it most fascinating for the new ideas and the new strategies that it has suggested. I can only imagine that other teachers will be similarly intrigued and inspired.' Sophie Fuller, University of Reading in British Journal of Music Eduction 'Kudos to Mary Natvig and her contributors for finally breaking their pedagogical vows of silence.' Music Educatio