"This-with-That": A Dialectical Approach to
Teaching for Musical Imagination
by Estelle R. Jorgensen
Among the various approaches to music education, my dialectical and epistemological
view offers a way of thinking about music and education and
deciding how to go forward in teaching and learning music. In this article I
show how this particular philosophical perspective can play out in teaching
for the development of musical imagination in a particular musical piece,
in particular, Johannes Brahms's Intermezzo, op. 118, no. 2. Three questions
lie at the center of this analysis: What is meant by my dialectical approach?
How is musical imagination implicated, for example, in a performer's reading
of this Intermezzo? How ought one to teach for the development of
musical imagination?
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