David Elliott's Philosophy of Music Education: Good Theory, Bad Timing or Bad Theory, Good Timing?

Abstract

Today I would like to talk about the words and the. It has always fascinated me that Bennett Reimer entitled his book Philosophy of Music Education (1970). It seemed that from the very first word he was inviting the kind of dialog that we are looking at this weekend. It can be argued that the invitation did not go beyond the title of the book, or that the came from an editor somewhere. But regardless, Reimer's title stands in stark contrast to something like Gordon's Music Learning Theory. This, of course, implies that there is one, and only one, music learning theory. Elliott avoided the issue completely when he chose the clever title Music Matters with its double meaning and more accessible approach. Still, the words A and The become very important as underlying principles to his theory. But not in the ways you might think. I would like to digress and then get back to this issue later. Although at first this talk might seem like a comparison between Reimer's and Elliott's philosophies, I assure you that it is not. That would not be useful. Instead, I would like to use one as a context for the other.

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