Klarinet Archive - Posting 000745.txt from 2001/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Music education goals
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:28:58 -0400

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From: <SDSCHWAEG@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] School Board

> In a message dated 5/27/01 11:50:28 AM Central Daylight Time,
> Bilwright@-----.net writes:
>
> << Can you teach music without requiring performance? >>
>
> I don't know - can you?...
[big snip]
> I think that performance related activities are as integral to music
> education as lab activities are to learning science. You have to do it.

But it doesn't have to be in front of an audience. A few weeks of recorder
training to play some basic tunes would equate to the basic lab activities.
Better yet a little keyboard or even guitar so that the students could get a
better grasp of chord structure and what it means in music. High school lab
activities are pretty funadamental. Afterall no one expects a high school
science lab to produce fully developed lab techs and research scientists.

Music is indeed a performing art but that doesn't mean that everyone who
studies music needs to be a performer. There is so much more to music than
performance.

And should it be the goal of high school to turn out musicians? What about
composition? And keep in mind that there have been successful composers who
played very little or not at all.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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