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Title: Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education by David J. Elliott ISBN: 0-19-509171-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Brilliant, but needs interpersonal and editing skills.
Comment: David Elliot certainly has done much to help those of us in music education embrace the kinds of "musicing" that were absent from the traditional American music curriculum. Approaching music as a verb rather than a noun changes our process dramatically and for the better. However, the book would be more effective if it were better edited. It reads as if Elliot simply transcribed audio recordings of lectures in his doctoral level philosophy classes. The work contains many long elaborate lists, invented words, and sentences with confusing syntax which at best confuse and at worst insult the reader. (A particular glaring example from the first chapter: "When discussing music education, twelve things immediately come to mind. We will discuss four of them. ") In addition to this need for editing, Elliot seems to be carrying a very large chip on his shoulder for his former graduate advisor and apparent nemesis, Bennett Reimer. Many readers, myself included, may find his confrontational tone counter-productive to his professed cause of furthering the profession. Readers may also take issue with his refusal to acknowledge the fact that no thought, however radical and new, is created in a vacuum, but rather is built upon the foundation of the thought from which it precedes. It is certain that Elliot would vehemently deny any influence of Reimer's philosophical though on his own work, but the facts of time and circumstance point otherwise. His work would have been impossible to create had it not been for the philosophical foundations laid by Reimer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: Elliott's book is a classic in the field. I use it as the basic text in my Foundations courses because it is so superior to anything else we have in music education. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in music philosophy and music cognition. Among its many values, I recommend it highly for its amazing clarity, comprehensiveness, scholarship, logic, and passion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Elliott's philosophy is still the BEST!!
Comment: I just saw a review here by someone who claims that Elliott's praxial philosophy is 'old' now that Reimer has published his third edition. But this person makes several false statements in his review. First, Elliott's philosophy states that all students should learn ALL forms of music making and listening. Elliott does NOT advocate a performance-only philosophy. This 'performance-only' claim against Elliott is pure rubbish; it is dis-information by Reimer and his un-thinking clones. Second, Reimer says nothing new in his third edition; his philosphy still rests squarely on Langer's old philosophy, which has been rejected by 95% of the world's leading music philosophers, including Kivy, Davies and others.
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Title: A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision (3rd Edition) by Bennett Reimer ISBN: 0130993387 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $61.00 |
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Title: Transforming Music Education: by Estelle R. Jorgensen ISBN: 0253215609 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today by Michael L. Mark ISBN: 0415936799 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning: A Project of the Music Educators National Conference by Richard Colwell, Carol P. Richardson, Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) ISBN: 0195138848 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $185.00 |
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Title: History of American Music Education by Michael L. Mark, Charles L. Gary ISBN: 0028713656 Publisher: Schirmer Books Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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