Music teacher
A music teacher is a teacher who teaches music subjects or teaches music students at higher educational institutions.
term
A music instructor is a teacher who teaches adult music students who are aspiring to a music career. He works as a lecturer either at universities and colleges of music or at educational institutions such as academies and conservatories . It can be distinguished so by a state-trained teachers , which the specialist "school music" has studied and at general schools or at a music school or a Musician High School and Music School , the subject " Music teaches".
However, the term music lecturer - like that of teacher - is an unprotected professional title and is sometimes used differently.
About history
The forerunners of the music teachers also included the independent " music masters " who, in the 1920s, trained music apprentices in singing and four to five instrumental subjects in their music school in return for payment of tuition fees. Furthermore, according to the apprenticeship contract, the apprentices had to wear a uniform and bring a “bicycle with lights”. Advanced music apprentices were then allowed to ride their bicycles to villages on the weekend and perform in uniform at festive events in the music master's student chapel and gain further experience.
education
In order to be able to become a full-time or part-time music lecturer, a degree in music is usually required. Similar to music teachers or music educators who want to teach music theory and music history , ear training , harmony, etc., prospective music teachers can study musicology , composition and pedagogy at universities and colleges of music .
Music students who later want to teach an artistic subject (e.g. singing, flute, violin, piano or trumpet) as a music teacher must study subjects with the appropriate instruments and complete additional pedagogical training.
The special thing about music lecturers is that musicians with stage experience or lecturers with special work experience without any pedagogical training can also teach part-time. They did not always gain the knowledge and experience required for this in the academic field, but above all in their professional music practice.
Areas of responsibility
Each music teacher has one or two areas that they specialize in and teach in. Usually there are the following areas:
- Methodology and didactics:
educational psychology and music education , music didactics , rhythm , piano methodology, methodology of singing and the methodology of the individual instruments - Theory, musicology:
ear training, composition , sentence theory with practice on the piano, acoustics and instrument science , harmonic analysis, form theory / analysis, music history - Instrumentalism:
keyboard instruments , string instruments , woodwind instruments , wind instruments , percussion instruments , plucked instruments - singing
- Extension subjects:
jazz / pop music , church music
literature
- Norbert Schneider: Lecturer at music colleges. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1957. Series: Sheets on professional studies. Volume 3. Professions for high school graduates. Edited by the Federal Employment Agency. Delivery 14
- Wilhelm Maler: Lecturer at training centers for music professions. 3. Edition. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1971. Series: Sheets on professional studies. Edited by the Federal Employment Agency. (Professions that can be reached with different educational backgrounds)
- Klaus-Dieter Ziep: The lecturer in further training. Professionalization and action skills. Dissertation. Technische Universität Berlin 1989. Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-89271-231-X .
- Richard Jakoby: Lecturer at training centers for music professions. 6th edition. Edited in agreement with the German Music Council Bonn. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1990. Series: Sheets on professional studies. Volume 2. Professions with regulated training courses at vocational schools, technical schools, in companies and administrations as well as professions after studying at universities of applied sciences. 7th edition. Edited by the Federal Employment Agency. October 1997.
- Katrin Hofer: Academic degrees, degrees and titles at art universities. Dissertation. University of Hamburg 1996. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-30623-7 .
See also
Remarks
- ↑ For example at the Cologne Opera . See biography of Gerd Kühr
- ↑ The term " master " comes from the Latin " Magister " for " teacher ", English " master ". The term "music master" comes from military music and describes military musicians who were trained as music masters and then occupied music master positions in the Reichsheer. As such they were e.g. B. Military Kapellmeister in the German Reichsheer and the Imperial Navy, later the Reichswehr and the Navy.