The topic for my paper is basically (I won't call it this) but it's going to be about what's wrong with elementary music education. All of you (who grew up in America and went to public school) had music classes in school most likely from 1st - 8th grade. Unfortunately, most of you probably vaguely remember them OR if you do remember them, you probably remember them as just singing in class and basically it was viewed as a 'bird' course. (hopefully some of you actually did have a meaningful music teacher in primary school! (if you did, send them an email and thank them!) but I didn't and most people I've talked to didn't either!) the problem is that general music CAN (DEFINATELY NOT ALWAYS) be a place where under skilled musicians flock, or a place where skilled musicians forget their higher learning and become the type of musician they are teaching (a very unskilled one) obviously, this is not always the case (and I really can't emphasize this enough) but I want my paper will be a way to show teachers that little kids can be taught advanced concepts in music and also serve to convince people that they need to be teaching things like this or learned music will literally DIE in America.
This is the article I found, it talks about a lack of unity amongst general music teachers, as well as adressing how poorly we are prepared to do this in college.
Spurgeon, Alan. "Proposed changes for the Undergraduate Elementary Music Education Curriculum". General Music Today. Vol. 17 Issue 3. pg. 28-32. Music Index. EBSCO Host. IUP Library, Indiana University of PA. Indiana, PA. February 2011.
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