Tackling alienation from western art music:exploring strategies to enable musical ownership and experimentation in a year 9 classroom
Benjamin Merrick
(PGCE Secondary Music, 2015-2016)
Email: merrick@cantab.net
Abstract
This case study examines the potential for improving a year 9 class’ attitudes toward classical music through a differentiated student-led, informal pedagogy. A mixed-methods ethnographic case study was used in
order to scope attitudes both prior to and after the delivery of the 4 lesson schema. When given the chance to recompose classical music with heavily scaffolded materials, students demonstrated they could produce verbatim
renditions indicative of a more advanced class. However, the year 9 class did not demonstrate willingness to take creative license with classical works when encouraged to do so. Compared to an older class, year 9 were
reluctant to synthesise and recompose western art music to suit their aesthetic preferences.
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Citation: Merrick, B (2017)'Tackling alienation from western art music:exploring strategies to enable musical ownership and experimentation in a year 9 classroom' Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, Volume 8 pp 419-451 (Downloaded from http://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/, [date of access])