The musicians are defined as good musician with their good musicality. In order to have a good musical skills, students learn music education whether it is formal or informal learning, or in a way of master-apprentice pedagogical learning or school classroom learning. Developing the students' musical skills and their creativity are the main purpose of learning in music education and are the absolute parts of the music education in many countries. Composing music and improvising are basically known as general music, to be able to express oneself artistically through music creativity. Recently, the social and collaborative aspects of creativity and music-making have become more important (Barrett 2005; Green 2008) and this brings a question of What can be considered to be relevant content and practice in music education, and whether the music educator should have an experience-based focus or a more academic, subject-oriented focus, and also knowing how does the organization and content of music teacher education affect teachers' approaches and views of teaching music. The main idea of the accomplishment of music education is that teachers make students to focus on developing students' musicality and musical skills, the educational approach of music education would create an idea to develop the students' ability in learning to learn the music more efficiently. Not only learning the music in music education, but also having potential of building connections between people would give make them able to enhance and support their interpersonal and social relationships between the group of people. It has been discussed that the obtaining musical experiences enable to improve students' musical skills and support the development of network b...
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...ion’ (17). The emphasis on this type of knowledge is hardly surprising. L'Roy (1983; quoted in Woodford 2002 682) argues how the field of performance studies provides a more clearly delineated body of knowledge than the field of music education that draws on knowledge and skills from a number of overlapping fields. Greater interaction between teacher and performer professional identities, between the values prominent in education and those adhered to in the arts could require that a new type of professionalism is developed at the interface where teaching and performing practices meet (Jeffery 2005). This form of professionalism could open up new possibilities for empowering performance teachers to take on roles and responsibilities that would expand their professional identities, allowing teachers to move freely across musician, teacher and performer trajectories.
A major factor in anyone’s life is education. It mandatory to spend at least twelve years in school and you learn about everything you would need to know as a functioning adult, But what does education limited to? Music should not be a limitation for any education program. There are many factors and a large pool of compelling evidence why music is important to students whether it be benefits to the brain or the emotional confidence it gives to students, music is important. There have been many
Music education is more than just a subject in a school, its a science class, a math class, an english class, of course it can be a history class, and even a physical education class. Music takes all of the core school subjects and combines them all into one subject that can be understood anywhere in the world at any given moment. Music is a science because there are special elements that it takes to create a symphony that could quite possibly taken three long years to compose and produce. Music
Plato, a famous Greek philosopher, once stated, “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” Often times, humans can be seen possessing the inner desire to achieve greatness through hard work and dedication to an ideal. Some aspire to accomplish simple everyday goals, such as getting up in time for work. Whatever the case may be, teens often try to find ways to achieve social and academic
Professor Higgins Discourse II 3/14/14 Since the beginning of public education, educators have been trying to figure out how they can create the finest most successful students by giving them the tools to succeed and ability to adapt to any situation in an exciting and engaging way. The answer has already been found and yet it is struggling to hold its place in the public school curriculum. The answer is music education. The way music education is viewed by other areas of academic interest effects how it
today’s society? Some say that music education is a waste of valuable resources, takes time away from academic subjects, is noisy and distracting, when in reality this is false. Music is a valuable resource that every human being should enjoy. Although our economy has been failing lately, we should not let ourselves believe that the only way to be productive is in a field that makes us unhappy, like computers or science. In America’s recent economic downfall, music education is commonly one of the first
“Recent studies show that being involved in music classes makes it easier to learn other subjects and improve skills in other classrooms” (Brown, “The Benefits of Music Education”). A lot of people tend to overlook how much music education has an impact on the success of a student. Because of this, schools should be required to offer fine arts and music classes as electives for the students. Not only will this improve the students test scores, but it will also give the students a broader imagination
Music, an extremely broad concept, is playing an increasingly vital role in the modern society, and most people today are experiencing music subconsciously. For instance, when walking in the street, not only will we see people listening to their music through all kinds of portable music players, but also hear people humming their favorite songs. When nightfall comes, young people usually go to concerts, whereas middle-aged people tend to choose symphony and opera. All the things mentioned above seem
Music evaluated as a subjects that is many times overlooked. If a school seems to have financial trouble, then music and art programs are the first to get cut. Essentially, students do not need them to succeed and they are just hobbies. This is the mindset that many school boards have towards music education. I have had the pleasure of being involved in music from a young age. My schools did not offer music programs, but my parents saw an opportunity in music education so they decided to look
¨Arts Education Matters: We Know, We Measured It¨ talks about the benefits that students get from arts education. This quote shows the importance that arts education has on young students. Most of the public school systems in America do not give the arts and music departments in schools enough money to thrive and grow. Public Schools in the United States of America lack funding for the arts and music programs in the school systems. The struggle to get funding for arts and music education in public
Music is all around us, yet many of us do not understand it. A simple man with an office job that you pick randomly off the street could most likely tell you the basic rules of American Football, and yet that same man could have never played football in his life before. If you asked that same guy the basics of the music he is listening to, I bet you would get a blank stare back. My argument relates directly to schools so many people can reason football is not technically taught in school, but what
identifying noises. If you were to search for ways to develop cognitive skills, you will more than likely see many suggestions about how music education helps cognitive development. Beyond the intrinsic value of music to cultures worldwide, music education is a powerful tool for attaining a student’s full intellectual, social, and creative potential. Music education equips students with the foundational abilities to learn to achieve in other core academic subjects, and to develop the capacities, skills
There is a debate that music is not an important part of a student’s education. Some think it is an activity that just fills space. In reality music is a way people show how they feel, or show how confident they really are. Kids can learn so much just by participating in the choral or band program in their school, and they need a break from the everyday educational classes which make school fun. Music education is important and requires people to pay attention to see why it is so important, how it
with their friends” (Cowell and Rodriguez). Music education is to be taken out of schools for its lack of use in other aspects. It is to stay in schools for its use beyond the classroom. Music education has to stay in all schools everywhere. Some people think that music education should be taken out of schools; It wastes time and money. This way of speaking is understandable because the cost of instruments are not very cheap. The process of learning music and the new instrument takes time to learn
Value of Music Education Many public schools offer music education as part of their curriculum. Although these classes are required, many schools choose not to allocate enough money into the music programs in favor of better scores on standard tests. Recently there have been many strides to strengthen the importance of music education. Chris Catalano, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, wrote an article titled “School of Rock strumming up success with hands-on approach” about how a company based
Literature Review This complex problem of music education has been studied for many years. Some disciplines go off of one another to conduct studies and analyze one’s results. Music educators tend to study how music education came to be. They are huge advocators for music education because of the benefits that come with the programs. Psychologists have studies done around the world to see what the affects of having knowledge in the subject of music are. With so many studies done, there are so many