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Tim Palmer; Pamela Burnard; David Burke – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2025
This paper offers an invitation to higher music education communities to think differently about the significance of the connections between music and play. We highlight the many texts that articulate these connections and draw together a speculative ontological claim that all musicking is an enactment of play. In other words, we ask how…
Descriptors: Music Education, Higher Education, Music Activities, Drills (Practice)
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Hash, Phillip M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the National School Orchestra Contests sponsored by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music and the Committee on Instrumental Affairs (CIA) of Music Supervisors National Conference from 1929 to 1937. Research questions examined contest (a) organization and operation, (b) rules and procedures, (c)…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music Education, Competition, Educational History
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Gatien, Greg – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2009
Lucy Green's (2008) "Music, Informal Learning, and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy" gives rise to an interesting corollary. Does the manner of music's transmission inform one's understanding of a musical category? While categories of music can be difficult to define according to strict musical characteristics, a better understanding of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Music, Musicians, Music Education