Additional Material for a Music Lesson from Lower Saxony, Christopher Wallbaum 2018 (Ed.): Comparing International Music Lessons on Video
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AdditionalChristopher Wallbaum 2018Material (ed.): Comparing for International a music Music Lessons lesson on Video. Olms: Göttingen, New York from LowerPupils Saxony age: 13 – 15 years Nr. of pupils: 23 School type: Compulsory Secondary Education, Gymnasium Topic: Arvo Pärt – Listening and Understanding Recorded on 16.2.2011 Table of Contents 1 Interviews with the teacher ................................................................................................................ 2 1.1 Interview BEFORE the lesson (I) ............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Interview AFTER the lesson (II) ............................................................................................ 14 2 Interviews with the students .......................................................................................................... 19 2.1 Interview 1 .................................................................................................................................... 19 2.1.1 Interview transcript .......................................................................................................... 19 2.1.2 Scheme for identifying the students in Interview 1 .............................................. 24 2.2 Interview 2 .................................................................................................................................... 25 2.2.1 Interview transcript .......................................................................................................... 25 2.2.2 Scheme for identifying the students in Interview 2 .............................................. 28 2.3 Interview 3 .................................................................................................................................... 29 2.3.1 Interview transcript .......................................................................................................... 29 2.3.2 Scheme for identifying the students in Interview 3 .............................................. 34 2.4 Interview 4 .................................................................................................................................... 35 2.4.1 Interview transcript .......................................................................................................... 35 2.4.2 Scheme for identifying the students in Interview 4 .............................................. 40 2.5 Interview 5 .................................................................................................................................... 41 2.5.1 Interview transcript .......................................................................................................... 41 1 Interviews with the teacher 1 2.5.2 Scheme for identifying the students in Interview 5 .............................................. 46 3 Transcript of the lesson ..................................................................................................................... 48 4 Teaching material ................................................................................................................................ 57 4.1 Lesson planning of the teacher .............................................................................................. 57 4.1.1 Original ................................................................................................................................... 57 4.1.2 Translation ............................................................................................................................ 57 4.2 Handout for Students ................................................................................................................ 59 4.2.1 Original ................................................................................................................................... 59 4.2.2 Translation ............................................................................................................................ 60 4.3 Power Point slides ...................................................................................................................... 61 4.4 Recording of Arvo Pärt: Mirror in the mirror .................................................................. 64 5 Postscript ................................................................................................................................................ 65 6 Floor plan of music room .................................................................................................................. 66 7 Technical Comments .......................................................................................................................... 67 8 Structure of the DVDs ......................................................................................................................... 68 8.1 Angles / audio tracks / subtitle tracks ............................................................................... 68 8.2 Chapters according to teacher ............................................................................................... 68 8.3 Chapters of the DVD ................................................................................................................... 69 9 Information on the national education system ........................................................................ 70 9.1 School System ............................................................................................................................... 70 9.2 Music Education in School ....................................................................................................... 70 9.3 Curricula ......................................................................................................................................... 71 9.4 Basic Structure of the Education System in the Federal Republic of Germany .. 75 9.4.1 Annotations .......................................................................................................................... 76 9.4.2 GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................. 78 Additional Material for a music lesson from Lower Saxony, Christopher Wallbaum 2018 (ed.): Comparing International Music Lessons on Video. Olms: Göttingen, New York 1 Interviews with the teacher 2 1 Interviews with the teacher 1.1 Interview BEFORE the lesson (I) I: - Interviewer T: - Teacher 1 I: [...] Do you agree with the fact that I will use quotations of you in my master thesis? 2 T: Yes. 3 I: Alright, we can start then. Because we know each other we can just stay with the 4 familiar 'you' (German 'du'), but I formulated the questions with the formal 'you' 5 (German 'Sie') It starts with the question: "What have you planned for the lesson 6 tomorrow and then on Wednesday?" 7 T: This lesson is the third or fourth in the course of one lesson unit, where we deal 8 with 20th century music that is occupied with mathematical principles in the 9 music. Just one example: we dealt with Frederic Rzewski "Coming Together". This 10 is a piece, that is connected to a jail break in the USA. Very emotional music that is 11 close to teenagers in the 10th grade. We discovered in it that there are 12 mathematical principles according to which the tones are organised. On the one 13 hand, this alienated the pupils and on the other hand, interested them. With Arvo 14 Pärt's "Mirror in the Mirror" they get to know another piece that comes across very 15 strongly emotionally and may be a beautiful piece of music at first glance. On it they 16 see that a very clear intellect is behind it that organises this whole material. Both 17 aspects I would like to have in the lesson. On the one hand the emotional approach 18 to the music, the connection to own experiences the pupils made and the intellect 19 behind it so to say, the organisation of the music, the organisation of tones. And 20 that is what this first lesson on Arvo Pärt is about. Since I would like to have all the 21 aspects in it, I would like to start with the following introduction: the music is 22 played just as it is, a longer excerpt. I think it is important not to present only a 23 small chunk but to let it play a few minutes. (...) Then one can see that the music 24 doesn't develop very strongly concerning arcs of suspense and so on. The pupils 25 can only experience the quietness of the piece when they hear a longer excerpt and 26 not only 20 seconds or so. Then I want to project onto this music a picture of Arvo 27 Pärt. I have it from a CD. In this picture, he has kind of an introvert look. He looks 28 into the blankness. One can see it very well. And this is unbelievably difficult to 29 photograph! I would like to address this, too. The pupils will automatically connect 30 the picture with the music. That's why there will be no pointer for the pupils. The 31 music and the picture will be given as a mute impulse so to say. And they will 32 hopefully establish just this connection. because they hear the music and see this 33 picture. In the subsequent conversation in class, I try to be open-minded for every 34 comment to the music first of all, then I'll try to structure them by commenting only 35 once on the music or also on the music in connection to the picture. Maybe some 36 pupils already have instruments that they recognise, some things that they want to 37 describe in relation to the music. But I would like