Thinking and Making

Selections from the writings of John Paynter on music in education
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-335591-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

For many, John Paynter has been the most significant figure in music education in Britain and beyond over the past 50 years. He remains widely influential through his work and his many publications, some of which are hard to locate. This collection of seminal writings, selected in collaboration with a range of music educators, brings the ideas afresh to a new generation of teachers, and includes useful introductory notes by John Paynter. The collection embraces the core topics and values of music education and includes contributions from a range of publications, among them core text books and articles, as well writings hitherto published in Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Janet

Paynter, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Sound and Silence (1970)

- Music in a liberal education

- Learning from the present

- Silence

- Exploring stringed instruments

- From Hear and Now to All Kinds of Music (1972-9)

- Today's music is for everyone

- Autumn

- The role of creativity in the school music curriculum

- An interdisciplinary approach to music

- The first sunrise

- The small-group 'workshop'

- Performing from indeterminate notation

- The School Council Secondary Music Project (1973-82)

- How did we get here?

- Music in school and society

- Interest from overseas

- The pursuit of reality in music education

- Keeping music musical: a British perspective

- The composer as educator: things that matter

- Strengthening the Theoretical Base (1990-2002)

- Sounds out of silence

- Wind song

- The form of finality: a context for musical education

- Making progress with composing

- Music in the school curriculum: why bother?

- Working on one's inner world

- Selected Publications by John Paynter

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Janet Mills (1954-2007) began her career teaching in a comprehensive school. She was a teacher educator at Westminster College in Oxford and the University of Exeter. Her work as an HM Inspector of Schools included the implementation of the first national system for inspecting Local Authority Instrumental Music Services. Mills was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music in London and in 2004 won a National Teaching Fellowship. She wrote several books, and many articles in books, magazines, and research journals.

John Paynter (1931-2010) was known for his advocacy of composition as a basis for the school music curriculum. He was appointed Professor in the Department of Music at the University of York and became Head of Department in 1983. He directed the project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum which ultimately established regional music education centres. This work played a leading part in the formation of Music components in the National Curriculum and in GCSEs.