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Interdisciplinary Transfer and Cultivation: How Vocal, Writing, and Visual Arts Can Inform Horn Practice and Performance

McBride-Harris, Jenna Lynn
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-9513
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492701963548168

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2017, Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
Pedagogy must be ever-evolving, because the cultures, environments and socio-political climates that students live and interact in are ever-evolving. Current horn pedagogical approaches are centered upon traditional methods for learning to play an instrument and study and perform pieces of music. While these traditional pedagogical techniques are sound and necessary steps towards proficiency and excellence on the horn, most of them are “horn-centric.” There are few invitations for students to use the other creative parts of themselves to inform their horn playing; while students in schools of music are often told that they are artists, they are not necessarily encouraged to interact with other art media (visual and plastic arts, dance, theatre, vocal arts, creative and expressive writing, etc.) to deepen their own understanding of a work or to gain a fresh perspective on how to tackle a horn-specific challenge. The purpose of this document is to address this very issue and to introduce alternative art-media methods from the areas of voice, writing, and visual arts, through interaction with historic and contemporary pedagogical discourse, and through reporting the findings of a prototype workshop called Interdisciplinary Transfer and Cultivation: [ITC] How vocal, writing, and visual arts techniques can inform your horn practice and performance. In this workshop, undergraduate horn major participants from The Ohio State University engaged in three activities (vocal, writing, and visual arts techniques respectively). designed to help them connect more deeply with an excerpt from a piece of standard unaccompanied horn repertoire, Bernhard Krol’s Laudatio. The results of the workshop would help discern whether experiences with ITC in horn learning are positive and successful in helping a student feel more connected and more invested in a work. The primary research questions of this document are the following: can introducing vocal, writing and visual arts techniques through the approach of ITC increase an undergraduate horn student’s investment in a piece of music, or even in his or her own horn learning? Could ITC give students the tools to build deeper connections with their music and their instrument? Is ITC a way of infusing new perspectives and fresh ideas into students’ learning, thereby functioning as a preventative for future burn-out and during periods of delayed gratification in their horn playing careers? This document will endeavor to show through data collected from the workshop that ITC was a beneficial pedagogical experience for the group of eight workshop participants and that ITC in turn, would be a beneficial pedagogical concept for contemporary horn pedagogy in general.
Bruce Henniss (Advisor)
Charles Atkinson (Committee Member)
Russel Mikkelson (Committee Member)
Katherine Rohrer (Committee Member)
148 p.
Music; Music Education; Pedagogy
Horn; Horn Pedagogy; Horn and Voice; Interdisciplinary; Music Education; Vocal Pedagogy; Creative Writing; Visual Arts

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  • McBride-Harris, J. L. (2017). Interdisciplinary Transfer and Cultivation: How Vocal, Writing, and Visual Arts Can Inform Horn Practice and Performance [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492701963548168

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McBride-Harris, Jenna. Interdisciplinary Transfer and Cultivation: How Vocal, Writing, and Visual Arts Can Inform Horn Practice and Performance . 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492701963548168.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McBride-Harris, Jenna. "Interdisciplinary Transfer and Cultivation: How Vocal, Writing, and Visual Arts Can Inform Horn Practice and Performance ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492701963548168

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