Musicology for the Theory Teacher

Abstract

INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The recent article by Pauline Alderman and its title “Musicology for the Music Educator,” suggest a subheading, “Musicology for the Theory Teacher.” It is hoped that no one will turn the page at this point thinking, “This is not for me,” for ideally all music educators are theory teachers. Theory is not a collection of dry-as-dust facts about key signatures and raised seventh steps or rules about parallel fifths, having very little to do with singing or playing or listening to music, but it is the exciting study of the very nature of the language of music, vital to musical understanding and expression.—F.A.K.

[The author directed the music workshop for the first Girl Scouts International Festival of the Arts in the summer of 1958. This year Miss Kleeman is teaching music at Yokohama High School, Japan, an American School.]