Ithaca College

(View link:) "What Constitutes Core in the Conservatory Curriculum?"  This roundtable discussion questioned the assumption that a chronological study of canonic composers, works, and style should be positioned as “core” in a school of music curriculum. What if, instead of retelling—or at best problematizing, complicating, and deconstructing—the established narratives of Western classical music, we started from a different premise entirely?

Four panelists, including Haefeli, described different approaches to curriculum change at their respective institutions that decenter the canon.