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Knowledge, meaning and ability in musical instrument teaching and learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Peter Cope
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Abstract

Learning to play musical instruments has always been a minority activity in British schools. This is partly to do with resources but also to do with the type of curriculum on which the teaching of instruments is often based. In an earlier paper (Cope & Smith, 1997) we argued that this curriculum was based on a classical, scholastic model and suggested that the goal implicit in this approach, the concert player, was inappropriate for most children. This paper lays out an analysis of the knowledge components involved in playing an instrument and draws a number of conclusions about how this might inform the way in which teaching instruments can be approached.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , November 1998 , pp. 263 - 270
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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