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The Contemporary Composer in the Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Peter Owens
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Abstract

This article is a revised version of a talk given by the author before an international symposium on music education in Hortos, Greece, in 1985. It considers the current state of modern music, suggesting that there have been some important changes in direction since the avant-garde styles of the 1950s and 1960s; and it reflects on some of the implications of these changes for secondary-school music teaching.

Some proposals are made for factors likely to facilitate the success of contemporary music which children hear or perform. In the original talk these points were illustrated with recorded examples, indicated here by numbers in the text. The role of children as contemporary composers themselves is also discussed in terms of the method and motivation by which creative work may be encouraged.

The educational writers on whom the author bases much of his argument are clearly acknowledged throughout the text. Otherwise, opinions derive from experience of teaching and writing music for children in England and in France.

Type
Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 1986 , pp. 341 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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