Music theory writing workshop
Hochschule für Musik Würzburg
The need for "music theory writing" is high:
Not only do many people find it difficult to write interesting and well-structured texts with analytical statements about music - for example in analysis exams or term papers... In concert introductions, too, people often talk more about the environment of a work than about the audible core of the music. Where does the "inhibition threshold" to make music-theoretical statements in front of an audience come from?
Whether it's a short lecture, a concert introduction or an exam - the music theory "writing workshop" deals with the question of how to prepare supposedly "dry" music theory content in such a way that all participants gain added value from it. We reflect on narrative structures - also in film - and try out different formats.
In the last few years, we have been able to cooperate with the Mozart Festival Würzburg, among others, and create introductions for selected concerts - as a face-to-face event or also via video due to the corona crisis, which has once again offered completely new possibilities, right up to impulses from the world of poetry slam.
The course is recommended from the 3rd year of study onwards, if confidence in the application of analytical methods is already present.
Students should be able to formulate essential statements about structural or tonal features about a musical work in a text or verbally in such a way that they are easily understood by an audience. Depending on the situation, they have a sense for the appropriateness of their approach.
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