Current Discourse on Music History in Italian Higher Education

Abstract

The student body in Italian Universities is today made up for the most part of young people with little or no knowledges in music from the technical point of view, one of the reasons being the lack of music education in our secondary schools. The article focuses on the problem of talking about music history in this context, with some comments on possible strategies to be followed in the verbalization of musical discourse.

Keywords

• Music history
• Pedagogy
• Verbalization of music