摘要：Imagine yourself in a classroom, as a student, and the teacher of the Intro to Music course tells you he's going to put on a bestselling CD of 1994 and then ask you to do a freewrite. He starts up the CD and out of the sound system comes a soothing flow of chanting Benedictine monks, the rhythm loose and flex- ible, the melody without surprises, rising gracefully like a large tranquil bird and then floating down to rest for a moment before rising upward again and again. "Okay," says the professor, "what does this music bring to mind. What does this music suggest to you.' And so you freewrite, stopping occasionally to listen more carefully and to search inward for the words to express what is happening in your mind. This is one way Robert Swift uses writing to draw students more deeply into their listening experiences and beyond, into the insights of reflection. The following compilation describes sev- eral other ways writing is used by faculty of the Music and Theatre Department for teaching their disciplines.
