Music Education: An American Specialty

Abstract

IN THE United States the term music education almost invariably refers to the teaching of music in public and parochial elementary and secondary schools. Music educators themselves, those who do the teaching, generally understand the term in a dual sense, taking it to imply not only instruction in music but also a more general, extra-musical education through or by means of music, thus by a bit of word magic providing school music with a nomenclature embodying its own special justification. In view of the necessity historically felt by school music teachers to justify the expenditures of public monies on their behalf, such a term had to be invented. While the love of music for its own sake must be considered the basic

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