Designing a new aural skills curriculum for a higher education popular music programme
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In South East Asia, popular music is a rare but increasingly feasible option to study in higher-level education. The local educational landscape has been dominated by conservatories teaching western and Chinese classical music and pedagogical practices, leaving emerging popular music programmes to develop independently from the ground up. The author has been tasked with designing new curriculum and workbooks for a popular music diploma programme at a newly established arts university. As part of that process, this article presents a literature review of commonly used ear training method books. The findings reveal that the aims, genres and assumed skills and knowledge of western music theory made by the authors do not align with the practice-centred popular music programme. Excerpts from in-progress workbooks are presented with discussions of the different goals, challenges and methods of assessment.
DOI: 10.1386/jpme_00138_1
Author: Patrick Olsen
Institution: LASALLE College of the Arts
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402315642