New Brain Research on Emotion and Feeling: Dramatic Implications for Music Education.

Abstract

This paper was conceived with music, and music education, in mind. However, it applies equally, with appropriate adaptations, to each and every art and to each and every field of art education. I hope those of you not in music education will make the needed alterations as you engage with this material, so that its full applicability can be attained. The last sentence, then, can be read as "I am suggesting that there may very well be a defensible consilience of our biology and our devotion to the arts in education. Kno w then th ysel f, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. These words, by the English poet Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), reflect a major historical turn in thought about the human condition and how to best understand it. Pope lived during the period that was to become known as the Enlightenment, when the power and potential of reason began to be regarded as the surest source of valid insights about what it means to be

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