Bridging Pre-College and Post-Secondary Music Education: Introductory Remarks

Authors

• Matthew C. Balensuela Greencastle, Indiana

  C. Matthew Balensuela is Professor of Music at DePauw University. His research in early music theory includes Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino (2007) and articles in Grove Music Online and Acta musicologica. He was the founding editor of The Journal of Music History Pedagogy and general editor of Norton Guide to Music History Pedagogy (2019). His work in jazz and popular music includes articles for the Journal of Jazz Studies, Fontes artis musicae, and The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor.

• Pierpaolo Polzonetti Davis, California

  Pierpaolo Polzonetti is the Jan and Beta Popper Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. He has published extensively on opera and eighteenth-century music and culture. On issues of music didactics and pedagogy, he has worked on problems of canon formation and the cultural ideology behind music-appreciation classes, teaching in prison, as well as teaching music history in elementary school.