Author: Stewart MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Musical Education of the Child
Author: Stewart MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Child
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow
Author: Kate GuthriePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197523935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the traditional focus on either highbrow modernism on the one hand or lowbrow popular music on the other, its novel view centers on the wealth of previously overlooked products and practices that bridged the space between these cultural extremes. While seminal attempts to recover middlebrow culture came from literary critics and historians, middlebrow studies is now a burgeoning field within musicology. As the first essay collection on this topic, this handbook has two aims: first, it seeks to explore the middlebrow as a historical phenomenon, excavating the kinds of critical writings, marketing practices, and compositional styles with which it was associated. By reanimating a range of musical practices and products--from symphonic concerts to Broadway musicals, opera criticism to rock journalism, and modern jazz to pop-rock--the contributors investigate how artists, critics, and audiences breached the divide from both above and below. In the process, the handbook chapters push the boundaries of middlebrow studies and demonstrate the category's relevance outside of the mid-twentieth-century Anglophone world by delving into the nineteenth century, interrogating the present day, and looking to Germany, Russia, and beyond. The handbook's second aim is to complicate the disciplinary divisions that have flowed from the entrenched oppositions between high and low genres. Breaking new ground by bringing together scholars of classical and popular music, these chapters trace common middlebrow themes across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Across this broad vista, contributors account for the kinds of syntheses, overlaps, and juxtapositions that made the cultural middle such a richly textured and endlessly contested terrain.
The Musician
Author: The Scottish Educational Journal
Author: The Musical Education of the Child
Author: Stewart MacPhersonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019419250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1906, The Musical Education of the Child is a pioneering work in music education. Macpherson argues that children should be introduced to music early in life and taught to appreciate its beauty and significance. He provides practical advice for teachers, parents, and schools on how to incorporate music into the curriculum and nurture the musical talents of young children. An indispensable guide for anyone interested in music education. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Art of Appreciation
Author: Kate GuthriePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520351673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The art of appreciation -- "Audiences of the future" : the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children (1924-1939) -- Victorians on radio : Music and the Ordinary Listener (1926-1939) -- Music education on film : Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) -- Outside the ivory tower : extra-mural music at the University of Birmingham (1948-1964) -- The Avant-garde goes to school : O Magnum Mysterium (1960) -- Epilogue : the middlebrow in an age of cultural pluralism.
Readers' Guide
Author: Musical News and Herald
Author: Unfolding Creativity
Author: John HowlettPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030757382
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book presents a selection of case studies of pioneers in arts education who were working in the United Kingdom in the period 1890 to 1950. Focusing on music, drama, and visual arts and crafts, the editors and contributors examine the impact these individuals had on developing innovative approaches to these subject areas and how they drew on perspectives that emphasised the need for children’s self-expression. The chapters offer an analysis of the pioneers’ beliefs and values, with a particular emphasis on their ideological positions about identity, nation, and what constituted ‘good taste’. The book further examines how their ideas were disseminated, in so doing interrogating the concept of ‘influence’ in educational theory and practice.