1st Edition

What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic The 2020 Revision

By Robert Cutietta Copyright 2025
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

The pandemic and social unrest during the year of 2020 set in motion sudden and drastic changes to how collegiate music was taught. Teachers and students experienced the most dramatic disruption in the history of the music teaching profession. This book examines the state of collegiate music teaching prior to 2020 and then captures these radical and sudden changes through the eyes of music... Read more

 

Chapter 1    For the Music Teaching Profession, It Was the Perfect Time for a Pandemic

Chapter 2    The Early Days of the Pandemic Changed How Music was Taught in the Short-term

Chapter 3    The Long Haul of the Pandemic Changed How Music Was Taught (Period)

Chapter 4    The Pandemic Changed What We Teach

Chapter 5    Social Unrest Changed What We Teach

Chapter 6    The Year of Revision     

Chapter 7    Nine lessons We Learned from the Pandemic Years

Chapter 8    Looking to the Future

Appendix A     Collegiate Music Education Faces a Dilemma

Appendix B     Addressing the Forces within the Rep Dilemma

Appendix C     Conservatory Leaders interviewed for this book

Appendix D    Timeline of Events during the Pandemic

Biography

Robert Alan Cutietta is a Professor of Music at the University of Southern California, USA. He is the author of seven books including Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music You Never Thought to Ask (2016) and Raising Musical Kids (2013).