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More emphasis is given to signification in music, since that aspect provides the basis for the meanings that musics—as multifaceted phenomena—have in the lives of individual people, their societies, and cultures. This ...

This chapter raises fundamental questions about the role of collaboration in instrumental and vocal music education in a rapidly changing society. Given public demands for free access, equity, and wide participation as ...

The intensifying diversity and fast-paced social change characterizing contemporary societies requires music education policy and practice to contend with various and at times conflicting musical and cultural values and ...

As we have just seen in previous chapters, ways of learning and teaching are determined by how teachers and students conceive of their learning and teaching functions: what do they think learning and teaching is?

This chapter focuses on relevant issues to instrumental music pre-service and in-service teachers, such as the need to strengthen their teaching strategies and skills; the importance of offering pedagogical certification ...

Previous chapters have suggested that to change the way in which music is taught, and specifically instrumental music, as prescribed, the students need to be able to learn music in new ways.

In January 2016 news reported the death of Pierre Boulez. He was a major figure in contemporary Western art music from the 1950s onwards in varied roles as conductor, writer, and influential cultural figure in addition to ...

In this final chapter, the editors reflect on how instances of collaborative professionalism have contributed to new practices in music schools and how such processes might bring about more transformative change in the ...