Music Education in Crisis: The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments

by Peter Dickinson (Editor)

Overview

Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s.

There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe reductions in government funding, with more planned.
This book, containing the first five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures, makes an important and timely contribution to the debate on music education. Baroness Warnock brings the perspective of a distinguished philosopher to bear on issues about the nature of music and its study; Lord Moser urges us to maintain and expand what has been achieved since World War II; the late Professor John Paynter, responsible for the 1960s surge in creative approaches to music teaching, presents his case in two contributions; John Stephens discusses structures for music teaching and then, in a second contribution, brings everything up to date; and Professor Gavin Henderson traces his own colourful career and supports music for all ages.
Also included is the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society by the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies; an assessment from Bernarr Rainbow himself, written late in his life; an indictment from Wilfrid Mellers; and two reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings, showing the continuing importance of his work fifteen years after his death.

This book is part of the series Classic Texts in Music Education, edited by Professor Peter Dickinson, and supported by the Bernarr Rainbow Trust.

Peter Dickinson is a British composer, writer and pianist and authorand editor of books on Lennox Berkeley, Copland, Cage, Barber and Berners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843838807
Publisher:	BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date:	08/15/2013
Series:	Classic Texts in Music Education , #24
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements Peter Dickinson vii

Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note xiii

Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures

1999 Music and the Imagination Baroness Warnock 3

2000 Music and Education: Towards a Non-Philistine Society Lord Moser 19

2001 Music in the School Curriculum: Why Bother? John Paynter 37

2004 A Provocative Perspective on Music Education Today John Stephens 57

2010 Two-Score Years and Then? Reflections and Progressions from a Life in Participatory Music and Arts Gavin Henderson 79

Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture

Will Serious Music Become Extinct? Peter Maxwell Davies 99

Part III A 2013 Perspective

What Happened to the Music? John Stephens 117

Part IV Three Views on Music Education

Music Education, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Bernarr Rainbow 129

Keeping Music Musical John Paynter 139

Music: The Breath of Life Wilfrid Mellers 145

Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music

The Wrong Title? Nicholas Temperley 153

An American Perspective Marie McCarthy 161

Appendices

Classic Texts in Music Education 167

Awards Made by The Bernarr Rainbow Trust, 1997-2012 173

Index 179