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From the Stage to the Studio: How Fine Musicians Become Great Teachers
Author(s): Cornelia Watkins (Author), Laurie Scott (Author)
- Publisher: OUP USA
- Publication Date: 14 Jun. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199740526
- ISBN-13: 9780199740529
Book Description
No matter the excellence of a musician’s performance achievements, upon entering the professional world, it is unlikely that any musician will depend solely upon performance for income. Those who distinguish themselves as both skilled teachers and skilled performers will have a significant advantage. From the Stage to the Studio provides the tools and information necessary for musicians to become effective teachers in terms useful to both pedagogy teachers and applied music instructors, and young music students learning to teach while perfecting their performance skills. Premised on the integral partnership between pedagogy and performance, authors Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott offer in depth explorations of the essential components of instrumental performance, the nature of student-teacher interactions and the manner in which knowledge, skills and musicianship are most effectively conveyed. In so doing, they illuminate the profound resonance between music performance and education and show how musicians benefit as much from teaching as their students do from being taught. Included is a wealth of information and concrete examples on everything from setting up a studio, to writing a lesson plan, to soliciting constructive feedback from students. From the Stage to the Studio serves as an essential resource for music pedagogy teachers, college performance majors who will want or need to teach and established musicians looking to add music education to their professional repertoire.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book is the product of the combined wisdom of two hugely experienced, and hugely generous, pedagogues …. This is not just a great book about music education – it is a great book about music and what it can mean to people. ― Phillipa Bunting, The Strad
The book is beautifully presented, both as a resource for self-study, and, via ‘personal inventories’ in each chapter … studies of the self. It is also designed as a course textbook for groups of students. … this is a book that can be recommended highly. ―
Jane Ginsborg, British Journal of Music EducationAbout the Author
Laurie Scott is Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, she serves as the director of The University of Texas String Project. She is a guest clinician and conductor at state and national conventions speaking on string pedagogy, public school music education, orchestral bowing techniques and character development. Her articles have appeared in The American String Teacher, The American Suzuki Journal, and The Journal of Research in Music Education.
Cornelia Watkins, teaches pedagogy at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. She speaks frequently at conferences across the country, and is the author of Rosindust: Teaching, Learning, and Life from a Cellist’s Perspective. She served as TexASTA’s studio teaching chair for seven years and also served a two-year term as chair for ASTA’s Committee on Studio Instruction.
