Lessons from the Past
Gary S. Karpinski · Music Theory Online · 2000
As we music theorists chart our course into the next century, we can learn many lessons from the past--lessons about teaching and learning music that can inform and inspire our work as pedagogues and help us deliver the very best our discipline has to offer to all students of music. This essay addresses six main pedagogical issues: counterpoint, figured bass, harmony and voice leading, aural skills, computer-assisted instruction, and curriculum design. Each issue is examined in its historical perspective leading up to the recent turn of the century, and suggestions are made for further research and teaching in the future.