Conveying Music's Emotional Qualities

Abstract

Recently, I taught a choral literature course for undergraduate music education majors in which we examined music from the perspective of its use in educational settings such as high school or middle school choirs. Although much of the class discussion was theoretical, I asked the students to designate appropriate objectives for the teaching of each composition in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains. It soon beVance D. Wolverton is an assistant professor of music at the University of New Orleans