Teaching with Music

Learning through music happens in many environments beyond the university classroom. This series of essays builds questions and activities out of a track, fragment, or piece of sound, inviting teachers of many different stripes to build discussions out of this material.

Mediating the Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies

By Destiny Meadows

https://doi.org/10.63473/WXDQ5690 Every four years, the Summer Olympic Games brings together over 200 countries to celebrate the highest levels of athleticism on the world stage. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, viewers have turned on televisions (or, as of recently, logged onto streaming platforms) to see athletic feats, individual… Read More

Vicente Fernández, Not Just for Latinx Students but for All

By Heeseung Lee

https://doi.org/10.63473/YNKE7548 “Y Volver, Volver~, Volver!” (And Come Back, Come Back~, Come Back!): as the explosive chorus of his signature song still mourns, Vicente Fernández Gómez, known as Chente, died on 12 December 2021 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, after 60 prolific years as a singer, actor, and film… Read More

The Pathbreaker and the Mapmaker, or, Harry T. Burleigh and Me

By Louis Epstein

https://doi.org/10.63473/HBTS7541 This is a story about ambition and struggle, success and failure, hubris and humility. It’s a story about the way a new pedagogy can change the teacher as much as the students. It starts with a song. I can’t remember where I first encountered Harry T. Burleigh’s… Read More

So You Need To Teach Online: Music History and Music Theory Edition

By Emily H. Green, Megan Lavengood

Update: The authors acknowledge that the work to migrate courses online might simply be impossible in this situation, given that many of us are or have family in risk groups and/or have children now off from school. The semester may simply be over. If it’s not, we hope these strategies… Read More

Teaching Music & Difference: Thick Listening

By Angela Glaros

By Angela Glaros Note: This essay is the third installment in Musicology Now‘s “Teaching Music & Difference” series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Rebekah Moore, and Amber… Read More