Providing context : teaching medieval and Renaissance music / Patrick Macey -- Teaching Baroque music to the bright and interested and ignorant / Kenneth Nott -- What Chopin (and Mozart and others) heard : folk, popular, "functional," and non-western music in the Classic/Romantic survey course / Ralph P. Locke -- Teaching music history (after the end of history) : "history games" for the twentieth-century survey / Robert Fink -- Interdisciplinary approaches to the Introduction to music course / Maria Archetto -- The "why" of music : variations on a cosmic theme / Marjorie Roth -- First nights : awakening students' critical skills in a large lecture course / Noël Bisson -- Teaching "women in music" / Mary Natvig -- Teaching film music in the liberal arts curriculum / Michael Pisani -- Don't fence me in : the pleasures of teaching American music / Susan C. Cook -- Teaching at a liberal arts college / Mary Hunter -- Teaching in the centrifugal classroom / Pamela Starr -- The myths of music history / Vincent Corrigan -- Score and word : writing about music / Carol A. Hess -- Peer learning in music history courses / J. Peter Burkholder -- Creating anthologies for the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Russell E. Murray, Jr.