Teaching Silence : Listening Long Before Music

FLAŠAR, Martin. Teaching Silence : Listening Long Before Music. In Krtička, Jan; Mrkus, Pavel. Sound and Environment : Contemporary Approaches to Sonic Ecology in Art. Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, 2020, p. 64-69. Monographs. ISBN 978-80-7561-268-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Teaching Silence : Listening Long Before Music
• Authors: FLAŠAR, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Ústí nad Labem, Sound and Environment : Contemporary Approaches to Sonic Ecology in Art, p. 64-69, 6 pp. Monographs, 2020.
• Publisher: Fakulta umění a designu, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 60403 Performing arts studies
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: Sound and Environment
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/20:00117716
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-80-7561-268-7
• Keywords in English: silence; music ecology; sound studies; sound education
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

In 2009, in a review of Hana Adámková Heidrová's book Music-Ecological Issues and Their Place in Contemporary Music Education (Hudebně ekologická problematika a její místo v současné hudební výchově), I wrote to Opus musicum that the concept of music education based on listening to “classical” authors and song singing (from folk to popular) is definitely outdated and that an understanding the sounds of our world proves to be a far more ambitious goal than the above-mentioned anachronistic “national revival” project. At that time my idea was criticized by traditional musicology. Today we find ourselves in a situation where it is obvious that Czech music education and musicology should have solved this problem long ago. Therefore, in recent years and decades, projects have emerged that realize that music - although it is a natural human activity – finds itself at the very top of sonic art. I believe that education to music must start with education to silence, then education to sound and its awareness to the more complicated structures and compositions of sound and finally also music. In my paper I will try to present several theses and suggestions of potential solutions.

Links

• MUNI/A/0887/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Výzkumné sondy k dějinám hudební kultury na Moravě, především v Brně, část VII.

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A