A Basis for Music Education

by Keith Swanwick

Overview

First Published in 1979. Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Keith Swanwick investigates questions such as: What is music? Is music meaningful? Does music refine our feelings and emotions? If so, how? The discussion of questions forms a conceptual framework which will motivate further thinking and development in music education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134868940
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Keith Swanwick is Professor of Music Education at the University of London Institute of Education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Meaningfulness of Music Chapter 2 The Feelingfulness of Music Chapter 3 The Parameters of Music Education Chapter 4 The Model in Action Chapter 5 ‘Creativity’, ‘Contemporary’ and ‘Integration’ Chapter 6 Music, Society and the Individual

Editorial Reviews

'Professor Swanwick brought to this book the distillation of years of work and experience in the field. He not only grounded his work firmly in that of Langer, Koestler, L.A. Reid, Reimer and others, but having established a theory of music he confidently articulated a rationale for music education. - - Here at last was the curriculum model that music educators had lacked for so long containing both a clearly stated philosophical base and defined curriculum objectives.' - Margaret Metcalfe; in Living Powers, Falmer Press, 1987

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