MUSICAL UNDERSTANDING AS A FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC ANALYSIS: AN EXAMINATION OF HOW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING AND APPLYING ANALYTIC METHODS
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2019-05
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University of Delaware
Abstract
This paper examines part of role that music analysis holds in the music curriculum at the University of Delaware and in the minds of students. Chapter 1
begins with a review of literature on the relationship between performance and
analysis, presenting two starkly different philosophies on the purpose of music analysis. An experiment which compared the effects that different types of analyses had on musicians’ performance will be explained and discussed in Chapter 2; through
this experiment it was found that incorporating metaphorical concepts into analysis may benefit performers. Chapter 3 outlines an additional study which considered
students’ conceptualizations of music and reviewed the methods by which analysis is taught in an undergraduate music theory course. Results from the studies in Chapters 2
and 3 are synthesized in Chapter 4 and suggestions are made as to how further studies and research may present ways in which music curriculums can be enhanced through
the incorporation of metaphorical understanding.
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Music theory, Music analysis