John Gabriel is Senior Lecturer and Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, where he teaches the nineteenth-century music history survey, the musicology research methods class, and a range of electives. His teaching aims to cultivate students’ critical faculties, including reading, listening, and research, and students’ ability to communicate their critical findings in diverse contexts, whether written, spoken, or multimedial, and whether academic, applied, or public facing. He has previously taught at the University of Hong Kong, the Peabody Conservatory, and Harvard University.
Vol. 15 no. 2 (2025)
Listening is essential to teaching music history, but incorporating it into our pedagogy poses many challenges. Whether I’m lecturing, leading a small-group