[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Jeff Tanner]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:47 PM, David M. Porritt wrote:

> “Someone who holds a music degree has merely demonstrated that they  
> can absorb material long enough to regurgitate it on an exam, and  
> that they have shown some degree of incremental improvement in  
> musical ability over a 2 or 4 year period, that they have attended  
> a certain number of performances per term and have been present and  
> accounted for in at least one performing ensemble each term.  It  
> has not made them musical if they were not already.”
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> I hope that’s not indicative of the music program there at USC.  If  
> it is, then I see your point.
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That's all any degree program is.  Where the difference lies is in  
the natural talents of the student, and that isn't planted by any  
degree program -- it is planted at birth.  I don't care who the  
instructors are, what kind of resources the institution has or what  
kind of reputation it has.  You cannot turn a non-musical person into  
a musical one by sending him/her to college, and one who is born with  
music inside them will always have it whether they pursue a music  
degree program or not.

True musicality cannot be taught.  Only technique can be taught.  And  
if any music background helps a piano technician, it would be  
musicality - not technique.

Jeff



Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina



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