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Guest Clinician
Magne Espeland of Norway, to Offer Music Education
Workshop,
Saturday,
April 17, 1-3 P.M., Bibbins 237
Story by Linda Shockley
"I think it is very important for music education in any
country to encourage teachers to see, plan and practice a
wholistic musical upbringing. This practice should not only
view music education as a natural cognitive and emotional
part of the general education of every student, but it
should also link and bridge the different disciplines of
music education. Composition and listening are two such
disciplines of music education that are rarely linked. In my
workshop, I hope to demonstrate different techniques and
assignments where the starting point is either listening to
musical works or a compositional process."
That's how Magne Espeland, well known clinician, author and arts education policy spokesman in Norway, describes his philosophy as a preview to his workshop, "Linking Music Listening and Composition for Children in the Elementary and Middle School General Music Classroom," to be offered on Saturday, April 17, 1-3 p.m., in Bibbins 237. It is free and open to the public.
"The music around us, like most of what surrounds us, can be approached in many ways and on many levels. It can be explored by students in a variety of expressive and analytical ways. Music offers many models for students' work in composition through musical structures, ideas and intentions. By getting involved in compositional and listening processes, students learn how to appreciate the ideas, structures and intentions of music, and to learn indirectly from those composers, how to make a musical composition interesting, coherent and meaningful.
"In my workshop, I hope to demonstrate a methodology that enables teachers to let students solve problems and assignments where ideas, structures and intentions are the starting point for creating musical compositions and for meaningful listening."
Espeland is currently Associate Professor of Music Education at Stord/Haugesund University College in Norway, where he teaches music education at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. His musical interests and specialties include curriculum studies, music methodology for the general music classroom, indigenous musics, and research methodology for music education. Since 1991, he has published extensively, including books, articles and a CD music library of international composers.
For the last two years, Espeland has chaired work on the new Norwegian National Curriculum for Music for Primary and Secondary Schools, and he has been a member of the national committee for the current teacher reforms in Norway. Internationally, he has offered presentations in Denmark, Sweden, Korea, Russia, Holland and the U.S. He is the immediate past chair of the Teacher Education Commission of the International Society of Music Education.
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