Robert Duke (music scholar)
Robert Duke is an American music scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Marlene and Morton H. Meyerson Centennial Professor of Music and Human Learning and is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music. He is also the Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education and a clinical professor at the Dell Medical School. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education, summa cum laude, from Florida State University in 1976.
Duke directs the Center for Music Learning at UT Austin. His research focuses on how people learn and behave, with emphasis on motor learning, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. He brings together ideas from music education, psychology, and pedagogy to improve music teaching and teacher development.
He wrote Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction and co-authored The Habits of Musicianship: A Radical Approach to Beginning Band. He has received the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship and the Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellowship for his teaching and innovation.
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