Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- 1999 Music and the Imagination
- 2000 Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society
- 2001 Music in the School Curriculm: Why Bother?
- 2004 A Provocative Perspective on Music Eduction Today
- 2010 Two-Score Years and Then? Reflections and Progressions from a Life in Participatory Music and Arts
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- Appendices
- Index
1999 - Music and the Imagination
from Part I - Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- 1999 Music and the Imagination
- 2000 Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society
- 2001 Music in the School Curriculm: Why Bother?
- 2004 A Provocative Perspective on Music Eduction Today
- 2010 Two-Score Years and Then? Reflections and Progressions from a Life in Participatory Music and Arts
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
Inaugural Bernarr Rainbow Lecture,
given at the Institute of Education,
University of London, 6 October 1999
Mary Warnock, DBE, FBA, was created a Life Peer of Weeke in the City of Winchester in 1985. She was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, from 1985 to 1991, having previously studied at Oxford and held teaching posts and fellowships there. She has served on a remarkable number of committees representing major issues in society and politics. Her many influential books are on philosophy, education and social issues; at a recent count she had honorary degrees from sixteen universities.
It is a great honour to have been asked to inaugurate the Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and I am extremely grateful for the chance to honour a great teacher and a great historian of education, as well as a musician. I believe, as he did, in the central importance of music education, especially in school, and it is this that will be my theme this evening. Bernarr Rainbow would, I hope, have had some sympathy with this choice of topic. But, of course, his interests were much wider than this: he was a scholar in the history not merely of education but of the fascinating connections between music and the Church of England, a rich subject indeed, to which I hope another lecture in the series may soon be devoted.
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- Music Education in CrisisThe Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments, pp. 3 - 18Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013