Some Directions for Research in Elementary General Music.

Abstract

In the best of all possible worlds (see Candide by Leonard Bernstein, 1955, p. 4) where my mind prefers to reside, research in music education would be initiated with the purpose of discovering better ways of teaching and learning music. In this ideal world, these discoveries would then be incorporated into existing practices and curricula. Unfortunately, as readers well know, this Utopian view of research is not evidently shared by the major framers of curriculum for elementary general music teaching series textbook authors, proponents of individual methods, state department of education consultants, and so on. Much of exists in present curriculum documents for elementary music cannot be substantiated with adequate research findings. If one reads such documents with a query as to what is the support for this practice, unfortunately, one cannot supply very many answers.

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