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Music, mind, and education
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Explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and their implications for music teachers.
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- Creator
- Keith Swanwick
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1988
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0203402898, 9781280057625, 9780415014793, 9780415014786, 9781134980468, 0415014794, 1138136859, 1280057629, 9780203402894, 1134980469, 0415014786, 0203329902, 9781138136854
- OCLC
- ocn922957163, ocm18106921
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- ""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""The thesis""; ""1 In praise of theory�does it matter what we think?""; ""Theories of music education""; ""Traditional values""; ""Focus on children""; ""Respecting alternative traditions""; ""It does matter what we think""; ""2 What makes music musical?""; ""Sound and music""; ""Responding to expression""; ""Musical structure""; ""3 The arts, mind, and education""; ""The value of the arts""; ""The arts as �different�""; ""The arts as dreaming""
- ""The arts as play""""Mastery, imitation and imaginative play""; ""Mastery""; ""Imitation""; ""Imaginative play""; ""The arts and the intellect""; ""The ultimate value of the arts""; ""4 Musical development: the early years""; ""The concept of development""; ""The theoretical basis""; ""Children�s compositions""; ""A first analysis""; ""Towards a model of musical development""; ""Mastery: sensory response and manipulation""; ""Imitation: personal expression and the vernacular""; ""5 Musical development beyond infancy""; ""Imaginative play: speculation and the idiomatic""
- ""Meta-cognition: symbolic valuing and systematic engagement""""Eight developmental modes""; ""Sensory""; ""Manipulative""; ""Personal expressiveness""; ""The vernacular""; ""The speculative""; ""The idiomatic""; ""The symbolic""; ""The systematic""; ""Musical development and musical encounter""; ""The evolving theory""; ""Musical development and music education""; ""Interlude: from theory to practice""; ""6 The cultural exclusiveness of music""; ""Valuing and labelling""; ""Prejudice and valuing""; ""Musical boundaries""; ""The impediment of new sounds""
- ""The impediment of alien expressive character""""The impediment of difficult structure""; ""Removing the labels""; ""7 Music education in a pluralist society""; ""Transcending cultures""; ""Transformation and reinterpretation""; ""An inter-cultural attitude""; ""The aim of inter-cultural music education""; ""Beyond the classroom""; ""8 Instruction and encounter""; ""Classification and framing""; ""Musical instruction""; ""Musical encounters""; ""Encounter and the curriculum""; ""Tacit knowing""; ""Two examples from music education""; ""Two descriptions of encounter""
- ""9 Generating a curriculum and assessing students""""In summary""; ""Pupils evaluate the music curriculum""; ""The problem of progression""; ""Concepts or features?""; ""Assessment in the arts""; ""Developing musical criteria""; ""Outside of the timetable""; ""References""; ""Index""