A Basis for Music Education

Keith Swanwick author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:19th Aug '16

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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.

'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

ISBN: 9781138175143

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

136 pages