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En este artículo el autor intenta bosquejar una respuesta a una cuestión planteada por los editores del British Journal of Music Education: qué se entiende por educación musical y qué experiencias deberían requerirse. El autor rechaza un análisis sobre los programas actuales ya que existe escaso consenso sobre qué tipo de programas tienen éxito. Examina la cuestión con una mirada más amplia e investiga sobre la influencia de los gobiernos en el modo en que respaldan la educación, sobre cómo son educados los docentes, y la importancia de la investigación relevante en el campo de las humanidades, desde una cultura nacional o global, o de los profesionales de la música. La educación musical es muy singular, y no está influida por el estado o por la preparación de los profesores. El currículo actual está influenciado, sin ninguna investigación, por profesores individuales que creen en la ciudadanía global en lugar de en la nacional. La historia de la cultura, un análisis de cómo los estudiantes responden a una obra de arte, y las ideas de un músico profesional intercultural con un compromiso con la educación tienen todas su base en la investigación cualitativa y pueden proporcionar una educación musical que tenga un significado importante y valioso.

This book brings together the best and most current research on best practice for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession’s empirical and conceptual knowledge of how students gain competence in music at various ages and in different contexts. The collection of chapters, written by the foremost figures active in the field, addresses a range of best practices for approaching current and important areas in the field, including cognition and perception, music listening, vocal/choral learning, and the needs of special learners. The book’s companion volume, Strategies, provides the solid theoretical framework and extensive research upon which these practices stand. Focus is placed on the musical knowledge and musical skills needed to perform, create, understand, reflect on, enjoy, value, and respond to music. A key point of emphasis rests on the relationship between music learning and finding meaning in music, and as music technology plays an increasingly important role in learning today, chapters move beyond exclusively formal classroom instruction into other forms of systematic learning and informal instruction.

Answering fundamental questions about musical preference, ability, and communication, the field of Musical Cognition and Development is critical to the understanding of how music is processed, grasped, and learned. This book covers the latest theoretical and practical techniques that explain meaning and understanding in music. Chapters offer cogent and concise insights giving up-to-date information and references. The book covers the most important topics in this field, including skill development in music performance, research on communicating music expressiveness, the neurobiology of music, the cognitive constraints in the listening process, and music and medicine as applied to neuroscience.

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 2: Applications brings together the best and most current research on best practice for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession's empirical and conceptual knowledge of how students gain competence in music at various ages and in different contexts. The collection of chapters, written by the foremost figures active in the field, addresses a range of best practices for approaching current andimportant areas in the field, including cognition and perception, music listening, vocal/choral learning, and the needs of special learners. The book's companion volume, Strategies, provides the solid theoretical framework and extensive research upon which these practices stand.Throughout both volumes in this essential set, focus is placed on the musical knowledge and musical skills needed to perform, create, understand, reflect on, enjoy, value, and respond to music. A key point of emphasis rests on the relationship between music learning and finding meaning in music, and as music technology plays an increasingly important role in learning today, chapters move beyond exclusively formal classroom instruction into other forms of systematic learning and informalinstruction. Either individually or paired with its companion Volume 1: Strategies, this indispensable overview of this growing area of inquiry will appeal to students and scholars in Music Education, as well as front-line music educators in the classroom.

The author comments on the last 50 years of the Council for Research in Music Education's \"Bulletin,\" which was founded in 1963. The project involved multiple players on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, primarily the College of Education.

With thorough coverage of the most important research schemata, this book represents the most comprehensive material on research in music education that has been published. The top researchers in the fields present an up-to-date and exhaustive guide to music education research that belongs on the shelves of every student and instructor in music education. Sponsored by the National Association of Music Education (MENC), this book provides the most thorough coverage to date of such topics as: * The role of research in music education * Philosophical method * Qualitative research * Quantitative research * Historical methods * Assessment and its relationship to research This collection will prove essential for students and scholars of music education.

Bennett Reimer's consistent, fifty-year argument for a feelingful aesthetic experience through various venues is at the heart of this review of his work. The experience is cognitive and holistic and can be advanced through better research in curriculum and assessment that supports musical knowing. To further all types of research Reimer established the Center for the Study of Education and Music Experience at Northwestern University. His students, like those of Elliott Eisner in visual arts education, learned to appreciate the difficulty of formulating research questions in aesthetic education. To further his agenda, Reimer used musical intelligences in his philosophy to support the advocacy efforts of the National Association for Music Education.

Featuring chapters by the world’s foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on music teaching and learning. This comprehensive work includes sections on arts advocacy, music and medicine, teacher education, and studio instruction, among other subjects, making it an essential reference for music education programs. The original Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, published in 1992 with the sponsorship of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), was hailed as \"a welcome addition to the literature on music education because it serves to provide definition and unity to a broad and complex field\" ( Choice). This new companion volume, again with the sponsorship of MENC, explores the significant changes in music and arts education that have taken place in the last decade. Notably, several chapters now incorporate insights from other fields to shed light on multi-cultural music education, gender issues in music education, and non-musical outcomes of music education. Other chapters offer practical information on maintaining musicians’ health, training music teachers, and evaluating music education programs. Philosophical issues, such as musical cognition, the philosophy of research theory, curriculum, and educating musically, are also explored in relationship to policy issues. In addition to surveying the literature, each chapter considers the significance of the research and provides suggestions for future study. Covering a broad range of topics and addressing the issues of music education at all age levels, from early childhood to motivation and self-regulation, this handbook is an invaluable resource for music teachers, researchers, and scholars.