University/Organization
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Title
Teaching Program Music through Storytelling in Piano Performance Tutorial Lessons
Synopsis
Applying research on conversational storytelling and instructional discourse, this study investigates how music storytelling is used to teach piano performance in online video tutorial lessons. It explicates how piano instructors explain musical structure, transform written musical symbols into spoken language, and storify program music—instrumental music that conveys extra-musical meanings by evoking a series of images, depicting events, or telling a story.