To maintain a music culture, we must teach it

Abstract

As musicologists, we must do more to relate our interests in music to the interests of scholars working in other fields, including history and art history. My contribution to the symposium seeks to trace some of the problems we face today in the classroom and to insist that, as scholars, we can do much to erase these problems. We need to understand that our discipline must be regarded as part of the cultural background of every student.

Keywords

• cultural history
• Wagner
• Rossini
• Verdi
• Rigoletto
• Guillame Tell
• Tannhäuser