IMS STUDY GROUPS
Name
Coordinator
Mission
Statement
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Transmission of Knowledge as a Primary Aim in Music Education
Prof. GIUSEPPINA LA FACE, (Dipartimento delle Arti, formerly Dipartimento
di Musica e Spettacolo, via Barberia 4, I-40123 Bologna
At the 19th Congress of the IMS (Rome, July 1st-7th, 2012) Giuseppina La
Face (Bologna) chaired a Study Session devoted to a theme of great significance
for musicology: Transmission of Music Knowledge: Constructing a European
Citizenship. During the session, seventeen speakers (all of them
musicologists, except for one pedagogue) from seven different European and
non-European countries presented as many as thirteen papers which
addressed several issues, focusing on four main topics, which correspond to the
current statements of mission:
(a) pedagogic and disciplinary foundations and criteria;
(b) the historical perspective of music education;
(c) music teaching, in Europe and abroad;
(d) models of didactic methodology as applied to music.
Report of
the last
meeting
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At the 19th Congress of the IMS (held in Rome, July 1st-7th, 2012)
Giuseppina La Face (University of Bologna) chaired a Study Session
devoted to a theme of great significance for our discipline:
“Transmission of Music Knowledge: Constructing a European
Citizenship” (see “Programme and Abstracts”, pp. 203-208: SS 7a;
July 6th). During the session, seventeenspeakers (all of them
musicologists, except for one pedagogue, Massimo Baldacci) from
seven different European and non-European countries presented as
many as thirteen papers (ca. 10'-15' each), which addressed several
issues, focusing on four main topics:
(a) pedagogic and disciplinary foundations and criteria:
- fostering an educated citizenship through the pedagogy of
learning (Massimo Baldacci, Urbino);
- the musicologist’s responsibility in relation to music education
(Giuseppina La Face and Lorenzo Bianconi, Bologna);
- the teacher’s mission towards music culture at school and
at universities (Philip Gossett, Chicago);
- the role of the musicologist as promoter of musical culture
(Miguel-Ángel Marín, Logroño-Madrid);
(b) the historical perspective:
- historical roots of the relationship between music and
identity (Matteo Nanni, Basel);
- origins, persistence and decline of the ‘Western Canon’ in
music (Manfred-Hermann Schmid, Tübingen-Salzburg;
Maurizio Giani, Bologna);
- situating contemporary art music within music education
(Raffaele Pozzi, Rome);
(c) music teaching, in Europe and abroad:
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the history of music education in the Italian school system
(Anna Scalfaro and Nicola Badolato, Bologna);
the incidence of Western art music in extraEuropean contexts (Giorgio Biancorosso, Hong-Kong;
Midori Sonoda, Tokyo);
(d) models of didactic methodology as applied to music:
- strategies for the didactics of musical performance in
connection with music history (Carla Cuomo, Bologna,
and Maria Rosa De Luca, Catania)
- strategies for the didactics of musical composition
(Giovanni Guanti and Luca Aversano, Rome).
All speakers in the Study Session expressed a keen interest in
fostering this topic on an international basis, through a Study Group
of the IMS especially devoted to these issues. The label of the
Study Group may be worded as: “Transmission of Knowledge as a
Primary Aim in Music Education”. The proposal, publicly announced
at the meeting, met with the approval of 69 musicologists from 16
different countries attending the Study Session (a file with
signatures is attached). The proposal was submitted to the
Directory of the IMS right after the Study Session, and was
accordingly welcomed.
Prof. La Face (University of Bologna) is ready to act as chairman to
the Study Group; Dr. Nicola Badolato, Dr. Carla Cuomo and Dr. Anna
Scalfaro (University of Bologna) will be in charge of the Secretariat.
The list of active participants may include:
- the seventeen scholars who took part in the Study Session of
July 6th, 2012 (see above);
- other scholars, both musicologists (members of the IMS)
as well as pedagogues (from outside the IMS) interested in
fostering studies in Music Didactics as a full-fledged and fully
legitimated branch of Musicology.
The Study Group will be based at the University of Bologna
(Dipartimento delle Arti, formerly Dipartimento di Musica e
Spettacolo, via Barberia 4, 40123 Bologna). It will meet at least
once during the five-year term of the IMS, most likely in form of
a conference on Music Didactics seen from the perspective of
Musicology. Contact will be kept through correspondence and
through a yearly or half-yearly Newsletter; synergies may be
activated with groups and associations involved in the same
area of musicological studies.
Information
about the
next
meeting
The Study Group will meet at least once during the five-year term of the IMS,
most likely in form of a conference on Music Didactics seen from the
perspective of Musicology. Contact will be kept through correspondence and
through a yearly or half-yearly Newsletter; synergies may be activated with
groups and associations involved in the same area of musicological studies.
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Next meeting
Last update
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The next meeting of the Study Group will be organized in Bologna, during
the next year, probably in autumn or more precisely in november 2013, to
coincide with the 17th annual conference organized by “Il Saggiatore
musicale” (XVII Colloquio di Musicologia).
Bologna, 19th October 2012