ABSTRACT
This chapter provides practical suggestions for incorporating the Engaged and Enactive Listening phases of the World Music Pedagogy approach into instrumental contexts. During the Engaged Listening stage, students have immersed themselves deeply into brief soundscapes and contextual glimpses of diverse musical cultures, and now begin to engage with the music in increasingly participatory modes as they begin to perform it for themselves. During the first half of the chapter, instrumental music teachers develop strategies for choosing appropriate musical components among diverse repertoires, which students learn to embody both aurally and kinesthetically, eventually transferring these skills to their instruments. The second half of the chapter deals with the Enactive Listening phase of the WMP process, in which students continually focus toward more nuanced performances as they seek to create the music for themselves and fully on their own. In the process, source recordings shift from being at the very center of the students’ musical activities, to becoming references against which students measure their own performances.
