Otto Ortmann, Music Philosophy, and the Revolution in Music Education
In 1922 and 1927, Otto Rudolph
Ortmann, then Director of the Peabody Institute, published two seminal
articles on music philosophy and cognition. Since then, much of what
he thought has been confirmed. By now, the music education approaches
of composers Zoltán Kodály and Carl Orff have been embraced around the
world. Ortmann's ideas do much to justify those approaches, and help
explain why music education is experiencing a resurgence, from very
active applications in the schools to the 1994 National Standards for
Arts Education. David Gonzol's work in these
areas has been published in the Philosophy of Music Education
Review, and by Schott, the publisher of Orff-Schulwerk's Music
for Children.
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Dr. David Gonzol |
| Dr. David J. Gonzol is Assistant Professor and Director of Music Education at Shepherd University. A New Jersey native, he holds degrees from Messiah College and Temple University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he studied with Dr. Roger Folstrom, Dr. Marie McCarthy, and Dr. Jerrold Levinson. At the University of St. Thomas, he earned Mastery Certificates in the Kodály and Orff approaches; his instructors there included Jane Frazee, Cindy Hall, Ann Kay, and Arvida Steen. Dr. Gonzol taught music in public schools in Pennsylvania, as well as at Messiah College, the University of Maryland, Wilson College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Shippensburg University. At Shippensburg, he taught Elderhostel as well. Most recently, at Idaho State University, he was Coordinator of Music Education and taught music in a K, 1, and 2 campus classroom. |
