Abstract
In a recent issue of this journal, Gordon Sly argues that typical undergraduate training in harmony and counterpoint fails to fully prepare students for upper-level analytical work: "...when we ask students to make an argument about a work's striking qualities, its particularly beautiful or eccentric events, about what gives it its special character...the typical Freshman-Sophomore sequence proves largely inadequate as a preparation for analysis." To address this problem, he proposes that we encourage students to develop "an analytical point of view" by telling the story of a particular "musical agent."
Recommended Citation
Bailey-Shea, Matt
(2011)
"Teaching Agency and Narrative Analysis - The Chopin Preludes in E Minor and E Major,"
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy: Vol. 25, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol25/iss1/1
