A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision, Third Edition

Contents

• FOREWORD
• Peter R. Webster
• PREFACE
• 1. FROM PHILOSOPHICAL CONCURRENCE TO DIVERSITY: PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES
• Main Themes
• Why Do We Need a Philosophy?
• A Word about Some Words
• A Time of Concurrence in Music Education Philosophy
• The Challenges of Postmodernism
• A Critique of Postmodernism, and an Appreciation
• Toward a Synergistic Philosophical Stance
• Etudes
• 2. SEVERAL ALTERNATIVE VIEWS AND A SYNERGISTIC PROPOSAL: AN EXPERIENCE-BASED PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC EDUCATION
• Main Themes
• Applying Synergism
• Music as Form
• Music as Practice
• Music as Social Agency
• The Boundaries of Music
• Music and Utilitarian Values
• A Philosophy Based on Musical Experience: Setting the Stage
• Etudes
• 3. THE FEELING DIMENSION OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
• Main Themes
• Music and Feeling: An Intricate Relationship
• The Emotion/Intellect Dichotomy
• Feeling, Cognition, and Consciousness
• Emotion and Feeling
• Music and Feeling
• Musical Feeling from World to Sound
• Music Education and the Education of Feeling
• Teaching for “Knowing Within” Music
• Etudes
• 4. THE CREATING DIMENSION OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
• Main Themes
• What—or When—Is “Creativity”?
• Who—or When—Is an “Artist”?
• The Role of Knowing Within in Knowing How
• The Ethical Dimension of Musical Creating
• Teaching for Knowing How to Create Music
• Etudes
• 5. THE MEANING DIMENSION OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
• Main Themes
• Language Meanings, Musical Meanings
• The Many Modes of Knowing
• A Description of Music and Art
• Teaching for Musical Meaning
• Finally, What Music Means
• Etudes
• 6. THE CONTEXTUAL DIMENSION OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
• Main Themes
• Context in Larger Context
• Universal, Contextual, and Individual Dimensions of Experience
• Music in Context: A Review
• Music, Culture, Consciousness
• The Dilemma of Multicultural Music Education
• A Synergistic Resolution
• Teaching Music in Its Context
• Etudes
• 7. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: MUSICAL ROLES AS INTELLIGENCES
• Main Themes
• Beyond the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• The Many Concepts of Intelligence
• A Definition of Intelligence
• Explanation of the Definition
• Musical Intelligences
• Musical Roles as Intelligences
• Teaching for Musical Intelligences
• Etudes
• 8. ADVANCING THE VISION: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL MUSIC PROGRAM
• Main Themes
• A Model of the Total Curriculum
• The General Music Program as Viewed through the Curriculum Model
• Achieving Comprehensiveness
• Redefining and Rebalancing General Music: A Radical Prospect
• Implementing a Comprehensive General Music Program: The Restructured Content Standards
• The Challenge of Comprehensiveness
• Etudes
• 9. ADVANCING THE VISION: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED MUSIC PROGRAM
• Main Themes
• The Specialized Music Program as Viewed through the Curriculum Model
• Implementing a Comprehensive Specialized Music Program: The Restructured Content Standards
• Recapitulation and Coda: Pursuing the Vision
• Etudes
• INDEX