{"id":401812,"date":"2019-10-18T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=401812"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:30:09","slug":"matthew-baileyshea-an-active-classroom-is-music-to-his-ears-401812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/matthew-baileyshea-an-active-classroom-is-music-to-his-ears-401812\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew BaileyShea: An \u2018active classroom\u2019 is music to his ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

After completing a music theory course at Connecticut College, Matthew BaileyShea<\/a> was so inspired he purchased a score of songs by Austrian composer Franz Schubert.<\/p>\n

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What Students Are Saying<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cFrom Day One, Professor BaileyShea started getting to know his students as diverse people with varying interests. If I ever needed help on an assignment or clarification on a topic, I knew that I could email him or go to his office and receive a helpful response without fear of being judged or talked down to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Tiffany Nicholas \u201919, \u201920 (T5)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen beginning a new topic, Professor BaileyShea provides several examples to show how musical concepts are used by different composers, or how they can be applied to studying and making music. He effectively combines theory with practice and allows students to practice the material, with feedback from him and their peers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Gina Romanazzi \u201922<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cProfessor BaileyShea\u2019s teaching and guidance were invaluable to me. He told me to immerse myself in my studies by falling in love with anything I was intrigued by. It made research a personal, rewarding process, and I feel more ready for graduate school because of his support.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Siena Facciolo \u201919<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI was excited enough about the class that I wanted to spend the summer looking into it on my own,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s my goal as a teacher now: to get my students interested enough that they go off on their own trying to learn new things.\u201d<\/p>\n

BaileyShea has made an \u201cactive classroom\u201d his mission since coming to the University of Rochester<\/a> in 2003. A 2019 recipient of the Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, he is an associate professor of music theory<\/a> at the University\u2019s Eastman School of Music<\/a> and an associate professor of music at the College. His research focuses on song analysis and topics relating to gesture and musical agency. Among the courses he has most enjoyed is music theory pedagogy at Eastman. \u201cTeaching students how to teach music theory is especially fun,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

BaileyShea believes it\u2019s important to keep students involved during classes. \u201cYou try to do that by playing music and making sure they\u2019re listening, responding, and making music themselves,\u201d the Boston native says. \u201cIt\u2019s not always easy. Classes can include more than 30 students from varied backgrounds, many playing multiple instruments. But you try to make a connection with all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

BaileyShea says he\u2019s \u201csomewhat unusual\u201d as a music teacher in that he didn\u2019t start playing an instrument until he was a teenager, even though he comes from a musical family.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father played piano in the house, and my uncle played in bands,\u201d he says. \u201cHe lent me a guitar, and that\u2019s how I got into playing music. I had always enjoyed listening to music, mainly rock, but it wasn\u2019t until I was 16 that I wanted to play it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

BaileyShea started taking music classes \u201cjust to learn some new chords,\u201d and his interest deepened significantly when he met a music theory professor at Connecticut College named Timothy Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got me interested in classical music,\u201d BaileyShea says. \u201cSomething clicked, and I started taking as many music courses as I could. Eventually, I dropped my psychology major and went full time with music.\u201d<\/p>\n

He received his PhD in music theory from Yale University in 2003, the same year he joined the Rochester faculty. He believes the best way to improve as a teacher is to \u201cspend a lot of time thinking about teaching and how to improve it\u201d but says he\u2019s never had a class go perfectly.\u201cEven the best classes, you come out of it thinking, \u2018I spent too much time on that subject\u2019 or \u2018I should have organized this activity a little better,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

But if he can make his students crave more after the course ends, it\u2019s a job well done.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost students come into a music class because they already love music,\u201d he says. \u201cThe worst thing we can possibly do is send them away with less interest in music than they had when they came in. My goal is that, when they leave the classroom, they\u2019re interested in studying it and looking into it on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

BaileyShea is working on a book that examines \u201cpoetry through the lens of song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking at fundamental issues in poetry like diction, meter, rhyme, lineation, and syntax,\u201d he says. \u201cI look at how these things work in poems, then switch to talking about how they might operate in song. I get to talk about poems that I really love, and then talk about a wide variety of music styles, from hip hop to art songs to rock. It\u2019s really a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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