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Education for Creativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Timothy Jones
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It is quite possible that the so-called ‘creative’ activities espoused by proponents of recent approaches to music education are endangering the production of great music by the next generation of composers because as children they are not being given the necessary foundation of skills to develop the craft of composition.

Isolated examples of genuine educational conviction have only served to legitimise these questionable trends by lending a certain historical authority to a modern philosophical disaster.

The major problem with the recent approaches is that they fail to recognise that craftsmanship is a fundamental requirement for genuine artistic achievement.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 63 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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