The College Band Directors National Association and Aesthetic Education

31 May 2013 and working model for the emerging philosophy of “music education as aesthetic education” (MEAE) in the decades before Bennett Reimer’s seminal text, A Philosophy of Music Education. In doing so, the CBDNA helped lay the groundwork for MEAE to become...

Songwriting in Modern Band?: Considering Constructivism as an Approach for Teaching Popular Music

20 September 2020 Abstract The study of popular music in public education is currently gaining momentum in American schools. Modern Band has been identified as a leading force in this movement, positioning itself as a catalyst for expanding the scope of music offerings...

Viewing Music Education in the United States Through Irish Eyes: A Response to Harry White

01 October 1998 Young American Should Know and Be Able to Do in the Arts (Reston, VA.: Music Educators National Conference, 1994). 3See Bennett Reimer, "Selfness and Otherness in Experiencing Music of Foreign Cultures," The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and...

"A book of manners in the wilderness": The Model of University Music Education and its Relevance as Enabler in General Education in Ireland

01 October 1998 1996) during which important contributions were solicited from American and British visitors, notably David Elliott, Bennett Reimer, Richard Colwell, Janet Ritterman, Ramon Santos, Dorothy Straub, Kari Veblen (Phase II); Harold Abeles, Paul Lehman,...

Pre-Service Music Teachers’ Perceptions of Social Justice and/or Social Consciousness as it Relates to Music Education

01 October 2009 devoted entirely to papers presented at the latter conference, including those by leading thinkers in music education: Bennett Reimer, Estelle Jorgensen, Randall Allsup, Maud Hickey, and Betty Ann Yonker. William Ayers states that the purpose of...

A New Curriculum for Secondary General Music

01 October 1966 Charles Leonhard and Robert W. House, Foundations and Principles of Music Education, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959. 14. Bennett Reimer, "Teaching the Beginning Instrumentalist: A Guiding Philosophy," Virginia Music Educators Association Notes, October,...

Music Teacher Education As Victory Garden

01 October 2009 to some degree to the 1959 work of Leonhard and House was the 1970 publication of A Philosophy of Music Education by Bennett Reimer, which provided the platform for the idea of Music Education as Aesthetic Education (MEAE) in our thinking, practice and,...

Academic Citizenship and Schools of Music in Twenty-First-Century “Engaged” Universities Dedicated to the Public Good

01 October 2009 Beginning especially during the last two decades of the twentieth century, a new vision and movement for liberal learning in higher education—that of the “engaged” institution dedicated to “engaged” learning and to the public good—emerged in the United...

School Music Performance Programs and the Development of "Functional Musical Literacy": A Theoretical Model

01 October 1981 disagreement as to the appropriate description of the aesthetic experience and therefore of aesthetic education.8 Bennett Reimer has extended Langer's notion of aesthetic education as the "education of feeling," emphasizing the emotional (and intuitive)...

Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music

01 June 2015 well as utilizing the language of music to teach important life skills? In Seeking the Significance of Music Education, Bennett Reimer suggests that “every subject worthy of study, including music, embodies a diversity of values, all deserving our...

Of Irish Myth: A Response to Harry White

01 October 1998 in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bowman, W. (1991). An Essay Review of Bennett Reimer's "A Philosophy of Music Education." The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, 2(3), 76-87. Campbell, P....

Preparing Music Educators for 2001

31 October 1991 modify, and print their compositions. As the technology becomes more sophisticated, music educators may encounter what Bennett Reimer has called a revolution. In his words (March 1989, p. 28): "Now we face a revolution equal in its musically...

Music Education is Coming of Age

01 October 1966 along with Teaching Children to Read Music by Charles Heffernan and A New Curriculum for Secondary General Music by Bennett Reimerdeal with aspects of instruction in music pedagogy. The fourth articleSome Observations on Instruction in Music Theory by...

The Student View of Teaching, or What Students Expect of Teachers in the 1970s

01 October 1973 own professional career. Instead he should strive to create an independent, musically aware individual. According to Bennett Reimer in A Philosophy of Music Education, "Music education is the education of human feeling through the responsiveness to the...

Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 and woman,61Lamb, “Discords: Feminist Pedagogy in Music Education,” 124–31. and Julia Ecklund Koza’s critique of Bennett Reimer’s A Philosophy of Music Education.62Julia Ecklund Koza, “Aesthetic Music Education Revisited: Discourses of Exclusion and...