Teaching music musically

• Main Author: Swanwick, Keith
• Format: Book
• Published: New York Routledge 2012
• Edition: Classic ed
• Series: Routledge Education Classic edition series
• Subjects: Music > Instruction and study
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This classic text is essential reading for all music educators, including practising and intending teachers in schools and colleges, and instrumental teachers. It is re-released in this special edition with a new preface by the author exploring what has changed since the book was first published, wh...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Musical value
• The aesthetic and the artistic
• The processes of metaphor
• Music as metaphor
• The significance of music
• 2. Music as culture: the space between
• We all have an accent
• The space between
• The focus of music education
• Signs and symbols
• The sub-culture of school music
• 3. Principles of music education
• First principle: care for music as discourse
• Second principle: care for the musical discourse of students
• Third principle: fluency first and last
• Principles in practice: four illustrations
• 4. The why and how of musical assessment
• The functions of assessment
• The dimensions of musical assessment
• Formal assessment and musical quality
• Student assessment and curriculum evaluation
• 5. What of the future?
• Resources beyond the school gate
• The issue of authenticity
• Institutional treadmills
• We know better songs than these.