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<Western Music History> is not only a core course in the music major, but also a crucial part of the liberal arts courses for the non-music majors. This research focuses on the latter, re-designing it as a student-centered/flipped learning class, since the students who enrolled the course often have quite different educational and experiential backgrounds in Western art music. In order to induce an active class and maximize the creativity of the students, it is necessary to take a different standpoint regarding the concept of history. In doing so, I try to adopt two newly coined approaches in musicology: ‘anthropologizing of history’ and ‘Ethnomusicology at home.’ The first approach was introduced by Qureshi in 1995, while the second one was mentioned by Nooshin, reflecting the current academic transformations in 2012. ‘Anthropologizing of history’ deals with history as a relational and relative experience, not a static knowledge, while ‘Ethnomusicology at home’ analyzes Western music as an un-familiar culture rather than an institutionalized formal art.

Flipped Learning, History of Western Music, Ethnomusioclogy, General Education, Art Education