Two Ivory Towers?
Performers, Modern Musicological Thought and Relevance in Higher Education Settings
VanderHart, Chanda
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Gower, Abigail
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Abstract (English)
An implicit assumption in musicology is that musicological thought influences/informs musical practitioners. Through a series of qualitative interviews with performance and musicology faculty in combination with contextualizing structural information, the authors explored to what extent the two fields in their current state intermingle, and how, where and to what extent advances in musicological thought are being transmitted to performance students in tertiary education settings. Four test case study institutions in North America and four in Germany and Austria were selected. The hypothesis that little meaningful interaction existed between performance and musicology faculty and students in terms of shared understanding/work/thought was largely confirmed.
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