Preface
I believe it can be said that a consensus of philosophers for more than 2,000 years has defined Music as being a special language for communicating feelings and...
Category: The Missing Link
Chapter 1
Why does the “Missing Link” in Music Education exist? In the education of children’s literacy, the first stage we teach is the alphabet, the individual letters ...
Chapter 2
The Appearance of Music in Early Man Since the bicameral nature is found in so many early life forms, we cannot help but wonder when and in what form Music firs...
Chapter 3
The Shift to Finding Emotional Meaning in Performance It was during the Renaissance that composers and performers began to understand that the higher purpose of...
Chapter 4
Where exactly is Emotion found in Music? The immediate answer to this question is: in the Melody, something which is clearly evident in all music from the most ...
Chapter 5
Toward a new Philosophy of Music Education Along with the return to the emphasis of performance there appeared in the nineteenth century the earliest music scho...
Chapter 6
Exercises for Developing the Awareness of Feelings The following is intended as a model for one possible approach for filling the “Missing Link” in the early sc...