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The Musical Experience proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education. The editors and contributors define musical experience as being characterized by the depth of affective and emotional responses that music generates. The chapters map out the primary forms of musical engagement - performing, listening, improvising, and composing - as activities which play a key role in classroom teaching. They also address the cultural scope of musical experience, which calls for the consideration of time, place, beliefs, and values to be placed upon musical activities. The Musical Experience discusses how music teachers can most effectively rely on means of musical communication to lead students toward the development and refinement of musical skills, understandings, and expression in educational settings. This book serves to expand upon the dimensions of musical experience and provides, from the forefront of the field, an integrated yet panoramic view of the educational processes involved in music teaching and learning.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: New Thinking for the Study of Music Teaching and Learning
- Janet R. Barrett and Peter R. Webster
- Section 1: Philosophy
- Chapter 2: Philosophical Musings: Reflections and Directions
- Betty Anne Younker
- Chapter 3: Escaping vs. Confronting Reality: Politics and Music Education in the Age of Entertainment
- Paul Woodford
- Section 2: Listening
- Chapter 4: Music Listening Vistas, Visions, and Vim
- Jody Kerchner
- Chapter 5: Life Music as a Beginning Point: Connecting with the Intuitive Listener
- Rob Dunn
- Chapter 6: Music Listening Spaces
- Carlos Xavier Rodriguez
- Section 3: Cultural Dimensions of Music Teaching and Learning
- Chapter 7: Finding Middle Ground: Music Education in Urban Settings
- Catherine Larsen
- Chapter 8: Framing Approaches to Multicultural Music Education in a Local Community
- Valerie Peters
- Chapter 9: Spaces for Student Voices: Composition in Schools and Issues of Social Justice
- Janice Smith
- Section 4: Creativity
- Chapter 10: Is a Virtual Composer in Residence an Oxymoron?
- Bruce Carter
- Chapter 11: Creative Application: A Way to Include Music Composition and Improvisation in a Comprehensive General Music Curriculum
- Lois Veenhoven Guderian
- Chapter 12: Fostering Creativity in the Performance Ensemble
- Kate Fitzpatrick
- Section 5: Evolving Roles
- Chapter 13: Reframing Leadership and the Musical Experience: The Conductor as Servant-Leader
- Ramona M. Wis
- Chapter 14: Reconsidering the Performing Ensemble Class and the Role of the Conductor/Teacher in Music Education
- David Zerull
- Section 6: Reconceptualizing Music Teacher Education
- Chapter 15: Preservice Music Teacher Education for the Conductor/Educator Role
- Margaret H. Berg
- Chapter 16: Music Education: Relevant and Meaningful
- David A. Williams
- Chapter 17: "No Actual Teaching": Expanding Preservice Music Teachers' Imaginaries of Teaching
- Teryl L. Dobbs
- Chapter 18: Building Bridges to Solve Puzzles: Strategic Curriculum Design in Music Teacher Education
- Michele Kaschub
About the author
Janet R. Barrett is the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Endowed Scholar in Music Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Peter Webster is a Scholar-in-Residence in Music Education at the Thornton School. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University.
Summary
This book proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education. It expands upon the dimensions of musical experience and provides, from the forefront of the field, an integrated yet panoramic view of the educational processes involved in music teaching and learning.
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The Musical Experience: Rethinking Music Teaching and Learning edited by Janet Barrett and Peter Webster is a wonderful contribution to the literature. Covering a wide spectrum, this book provides fresh insights into important topics.
