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On ‘Listening’ in Music Education Brian Loane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Brian Loane
Brian Loane
Affiliation:
Boldon Comprehensive School, South Tyneside
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The article suggests that ‘Composing / Performing / Listening’ may be an inadequate way to categorise musical activities, particularly because any musical activity is a sort of listening. There is a discussion of the educationally crucial difference between ‘audience-listening’ on the one hand, and ‘composition-listening’ and ‘performance-listening’ on the other. It is suggested that musical experience is itself thinking embodied in sound, and that explicit ‘analysis-of-listening’ plays a supportive role.

In this light, the article proposes an alternative way to categorise musical activities, and indicates some possible conclusions for the curriculum and for assessment.

Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Music Education , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 27 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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