Klarinet Archive - Posting 000743.txt from 2001/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] What is music education's goals?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:09:40 -0400

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From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] School Board

> [snip] Music is oriented towards performance, which means towards
pleasing
> (and being judged by) an audience of peers in a public gathering.
>
> [snip] Can you teach music without requiring performance? ... [snip]

Since I happen to believe that performance is merely one element of music,
yes you can teach music without requiring performance. So there is no need
to subject students to the stresses of performing. If one wished to, they
could spend untold hours on appreciation, history, theory, composition, etc.
We need knowledgeable and appreciative consumers of music and qualified
composers of music so that those who do perform will have music to play and
an audience to play for.

Let's see what the music educator's have to offer here. What should a high
school graduate in general know about music even if they did not participate
in performance groups and do not intend to pursue music as one of their
vocational or avocational life goals?

Dee Hays
Michigan

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