Music Appreciation Revisited: Responses to Mann and Kivy

31 August 2000 I read with great interest Brian Mann's recent essay on music appreciation: "A Response to Kivy: Music and `Music Appreciation' in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Tradition (College Music Symposium, vol. 39, 1999). To my mind, Mann's recommendations for...

A Response to Kivy: Music and "Music Appreciation" in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1999 takes place. Such an approach has its uses but can easily degenerate into a mechanistic view of musical works. authors: Brian Mann author_ids: 912 authors: Brian Mann author_ids: 912

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...

Beyond Intro: Further Roles for Music in the Liberal Arts Core

27 August 2012 More than three decades ago in this journal, in an essay entitled "The Department of Music in the Contemporary University," Henry L. Cady concluded Music in higher learning has come from the unhappy state of a pariah to a position of security. The arts...

An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”

01 October 2009 labeled “dead” as “immortal.” This situation is not an especially helpful context in which to offer music appreciation. Brian Mann of Vassar College has observed that “the uses to which classical music is generally put in popular culture—however...