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I am preparing for my comprehensive exams for my master's degree and one of my questions is in regards to the teaching style of Leonard Rose. I've been
searching everywhere, but I am having difficulty finding information. Is there anyone that knows of some kind of book, article, or interview that would focus
on his his approach to teaching or his methods? Perhaps someone has studied with him that might be able to give me a personal insight on their studies with
him. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank.
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cellofan07 |
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isn't the whole idea of comprehensive exams to cover things that you have actually learned during the course of your degree? Have you taken a cello or
string pedagogy class? Did that class deal with the specific teachings of Leonard Rose? If no, this question is completely irrelevant! That said, there's
probably nothing you can do about it...
Eric Edberg, occasional poster around here, teaches at DePauw University, and he studied with Rose. He has a website and a blog, so should be pretty easy to contact. Outside of that, you're probably going to need to google the bios of cellists, and see if you can make contact with some former Rose students. Have you checked the Applebaum series, "The way They Play?" It might have something. Also, you may fnd something by searching the archives of The Strad. Here are a couple of citations which may be helpful: TITLE: Leonard Rose 1918-1984. AUTHOR(s): O. Shymsky. PERIODICAL: THE STRAD VOLUME: 96 DATE: Jul 1985 PAGE(s): 172 LANGUAGE: English PERIODICAL CLASSIFICATION: Pedagogy, Performance, Strings, Violin PERIODICAL COUNTRY: England SUBJECTS: ROSE, LEONARD p.172 biog ------------------------------------------------ TITLE: The timeless wisdom of Leonard Rose. AUTHOR(s): D. Morganstern. PERIODICAL: THE INSTRUMENTALIST VOLUME: 58 DATE: Jul 2004 PAGE(s): 25-8 LANGUAGE: English PERIODICAL CLASSIFICATION: Band, Education, Pedagogy PERIODICAL COUNTRY: United States SUBJECTS: MORGANSTERN, DANIEL p.25-8 port ROSE, LEONARD p.25-8 port ------------------------------------------- Good luck! |
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TtheCellist |
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There is an interview that Tim Janof did with Ron Leonard from 2/96 where Ron speaks a lot about his old teacher, Leonard Rose. I just re-read it recently and
it's a great interivew, naturally.
Terri
"When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice." - Rostropovich
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celletto |
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There is a Rose biography in the works.
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Bob |
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"one of my questions is in regards to the teaching style of Leonard Rose"
This is a little unclear, since we don't know if "my" refers to questions that have been posed to you or to questions you're idly wondering on your own. Rose's teaching "style" was of course an offshoot of his personality. How a panel today could expect you to know about this (he died 25 years ago) is beyond me. And what does his "style" matter to anyone today? It was different than the next guy's, same as every teacher. There are several of us here familiar with his teaching, but you'd need to post a much clearer, substantive question for us to be of any help. |
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christinacello |
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Thanks for everyone's responses! I think the way comp questions are given here is a little bit different than other universities. Our questions are given
to us in advance by professors that we choose. For a Masters degree three faculty members are chosen: two in your major field and one out of your major field.
We then have about two weeks to prepare the questions before we go in a little room and spew all of the knowledge we just learned onto a computer for four
hours. This particular question is a compare and contrast of the pedagogic styles of Leonard Rose, Janos Starker, and Paul Tortilier.
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cellofan07 |
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that's exactly what I had to do for my master's comps - but the questions pertained to topics that I had actually studied with each particular
professor. I just don't understand the value of this particular question. What is the point?
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Tim Janof |
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Type in "Leonard Rose" in the Google search engine on the ICS homepage and you'll get a quadrillion references to him within cello.org.
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ericedberg |
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Tim's right, there have been many threads here where Rose students have discussed his teaching (and Starker students discussed his teaching, etc.).
It's actually a fascinating question.
Regarding graduate exams, especially oral exams, at many institutions the purpose of the exam is to test the student's overall knowledge of a field, particularly including things that were not covered in any specific course. The idea is that on the graduate level, courses are only one part of the student's learning process, and that there is a lot of independent self-initiated learning, and that the student is responsible for developing broad knowledge. When I was finishing my Bachelor's degree at Peabody, the Master's orals were infamous for all sorts of trivia questions regarding arcane details of music history. A sort of "gotcha" mentality can develop on exam committees. It was my sense then (30 years ago) that this had developed among some of the Peabody faculty, with one piano faculty member infamous for asking piano majors questions about medieval and Renaissance vocal music. Another purpose of graduate exams, especially those with questions specified in advance, is to test the student's ability to do research quickly, absorb the information, and then be able to coherently present and discuss it. Meanwhile, the first place to start with research of this sort (when you are not having luck on your own) is your music librarian. Unfortunately some MM programs do not require a music bibliography course which teaches research skills. But your librarians are there to help show you how to do this. Good luck! Eric |
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celloswin |
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I don't know if it will arrive in time to help you with your exams, but Steve Honigberg has a book on Leonard Rose coming out in November. Steve was a
student of Rose at Julliard. If you go to Steve's website, you can get in contact with him. He might be able to point you to the sources that he used in
addition to his own personal experiences. Hope this helps, and good luck!
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| Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 09:37:22 | christinacello |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 09:45:32 | cellofan07 |
| Read the interview | 10/22/09 10:11:07 | TtheCellist |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 10:25:01 | celletto |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 10:36:08 | Bob |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 14:22:42 | christinacello |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/22/09 14:46:43 | cellofan07 |
| 10/22/09 20:23:49 | Tim Janof | |
| Re: Leonard Rose Pedagogue | 10/23/09 11:20:10 | ericedberg |
| Re: Leonard Rose | 10/25/09 19:15:29 | celloswin |