[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Porritt, David]

Jeff:

 

I guess this is where we'll have to agree to disagree.  If what you say
is true, our educational systems have been putting one over on the
public very well, and for a long time.  I, personally, don't think
that's really the case.

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: Jeff Tanner [mailto:jtanner at mozart.sc.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:41 PM
To: Porritt, David; College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

 

 

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."

 

I hope that's not indicative of the music program there at USC.  If it
is, then I see your point.

 

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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