Mills, Janet: Thinking and Making
Selections from the writings of John Paynter on music in education
- Author: Mills, Janet
- Author: Paynter, John
This is not an easy read, nor is it intended to be: Paynter wants to make us think, and he succeeds. This is writing of the highest quality - thought-provoking, passionate and perceptive . ....
Mills, Janet: Thinking and Making
Selections from the writings of John Paynter on music in education
- Author: Mills, Janet
- Author: Paynter, John
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This is not an easy read, nor is it intended to be: Paynter wants to make us think, and he succeeds. This is writing of the highest quality - thought-provoking, passionate and perceptive . ....
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For many, John Paynter has been the most significant figure in music education in Britain and beyond over the past 50 years. He remains widely influential through his work and his many publications, some of which are hard to locate. This collection of seminal writings, selected in collaboration with a range of music educators, brings the ideas afresh to a new generation of teachers, and includes useful introductory notes by John Paynter. The collection embraces the core topics and values of music education and includes contributions from a range of publications, among them core text books and articles, as well writings hitherto published in Britain.
Contents
- Sound and Silence (1970)
- Music in a liberal education
- Learning from the present
- Silence
- Exploring stringed instruments
- From Hear and Now to All Kinds of Music (1972-9)
- Today's music is for everyone
- Autumn
- The role of creativity in the school music curriculum
- An interdisciplinary approach to music
- The first sunrise
- The small-group 'workshop'
- Performing from indeterminate notation
- The School Council Secondary Music Project (1973-82)
- How did we get here?
- Music in school and society
- Interest from overseas
- The pursuit of reality in music education
- Keeping music musical: a British perspective
- The composer as educator: things that matter
- Strengthening the Theoretical Base (1990-2002)
- Sounds out of silence
- Wind song
- The form of finality: a context for musical education
- Making progress with composing
- Music in the school curriculum: why bother?
- Working on one's inner world
- Selected Publications by John Paynter
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This is not an easy read, nor is it intended to be: Paynter wants to make us think, and he succeeds. This is writing of the highest quality - thought-provoking, passionate and perceptive . . . Who should read it? Every music teacher who cares about music education and its place in the school. It is clear that we all owe this man and his colleagues a great deal; now he is gone, the least we can do is preserve his work by reading his writings and, much more importantly, continuing to make music in the nation's classrooms
