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Dr. K. Veblen
Music 1800
29/11/2015
Myers, D. (2007). Freeing music education from schooling: Towards a lifespan
perspective on music teaching and learning. International Journal of
Community Music 1(1):49-61.
Right from the first paragraph, I could relate to this article, specifically
with the quote Budiansky is tired of performances of mediocre repertoire
written specifically for school
ensembles. Throughout my high school life, our band would only play
simple repertoire specifically arranged for a school band, and it was
extremely boring music. I also (painfully) agree with another quote Myers
took from an email that was sent to Budiansky: Weve turned music
education . . . into an assembly line that is pretty good at whipping together
a group of students who can push the right buttons on their instruments and
read music and produce something that sounds polished fairly quickly. And
then those kids leave high school and never touch their instruments again,
never go to classical or jazz concerts, never know how to make music on
their own, never have the curiosity to discover music that means something
to them. This sad truth was very evident in my high school, although I and
only a few other students were not turned away from music completely.