Music, mind, and education [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Swanwick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451051603321
• Autore: Swanwick Keith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1988
• ISBN: 1-134-98046-9; 1-138-13685-9; 1-280-05762-9; 0-203-40289-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 780/.7
• Soggetti: Music - Instruction and study; Music - Psychological aspects; Music - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""The thesis""; ""1 In praise of theoryâ€?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 â€?differentâ€?""; ""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""; ""Childrenâ€?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""