Bernard Angelo Beau R.

Lagua

Foundations of Music Education:

Contemporary Music
Education

Topic I. Contemporary Music Project (1957)

 It was because of their efforts that the current music education now became better.
 The Ford Foundation explored the relationship between arts and American society in 1957

 Norman Dello Joio suggested the Young Composers Project under Ford Foundation’s funding
and was administered by the National Music Council of America

 The project placed young composers of ages 35 and below in public school systems as
composers-in-residence

 From 1959 – 1962, 31 composers participated in the project (Young Composers Project)

 Discovered that many MUSIC EDUCATORS were not prepared to deal with contemporary music

 In 1962, the Ford Foundation elevated the YCP from a pilot program to one of their ten major
projects

 In 1964, the YCP became the Contemporary Music Project for Creativity in Music Education
(CMP)
 Under this new title, CMP, the project was expanded to include seminars and workshops at
major universities focusing on the teaching of comprehensive musicianship, and pilot projects
focused on the musical creativity of young students

 In 1968, the Ford Foundation gave MENC a grant of 1,380,000.00 dollars to administer the CMP
for an additional five years.

 Music Educators National Conference (MENC) (now the National Association for Music
Education (NAfME)

 CMP continued until its termination in 1973

Contemporary Music Project purpose:

1. Increase emphasis on the creative aspect of music in public schools

2. To create a solid foundation in the music education profession for the acceptance of
contemporary music

3. To reduce compartmentalization between the professions of music composition and music

education

4. To cultivate taste and discrimination on the part of music educators and

students regarding the quality of contemporary music

5. Ending: The projects spread throughout the United States and it gave birth
to the widely music teaching methods on the current time, the
musicianship through rhythm studies and movement, learned from
intrinsic rather than extrinsic sources by Jaques-Dalcroze

Topic II. Sputnik (1957)

• In case you guys are wondering, Spunik was the first
artificial earth satellite of the Soviet Union.

• This marked the dawn of the space age.

• Let’s have a clearer view of it

• now, let’s have a realistic photo of it

• Sputnik sparked a controversial fear to the

Americans because of the technological leap of the
Soviets leaving them behind of their technological
race

• Unsay connect?! Nu?!

• "When Sputnik hit, and all the fear, people going underground and fallout shelters, kind of the
end of the world mixed with the beep, beep, beep of the satellite, it touched off American pop
culture at its best…“ Especially in music –David Hooffman an American writer and journalist

• "I happened to read in the paper, when it did go up, this reporter said that we should be
celebrating it and somebody should write a song about it,“ -Jerry Engler

• At the time Sputnik launched, Jerry Engler, a local celebrity in New York with his rockabilly
music, says that while a lot of people were fearful of Russian spacecraft, he was excited.

• So Engler went to work. He wrote "Sputnik," a song about a trip he and his girl would take
together in outer space.

• Sputnik inspired all kinds of musicians (at that time)

• Although many were scared that the U.S. was falling behind in the space race, however, some
songwriters took a just-you-wait attitude toward the Russians, like "Satellite Baby" by blues
pianist Roosevelt Sykes

Now, listen Mr. Khrushchev, I heard a lot of talk

About the satellite and missiles and the president's fault
You'd better listen to what I got to say
The things I'm gonna tell you, are gonna make your hair turn gray
I got a satellite baby with a red hot style that's new
Well, she got more speed than Sputnik No. 2.

-Roosevelt Sykes

 This major world event ushered in the space race and gave birth to inspiring songs like
"Sputnik Baby," "Sputnik Dance," "Santa Satellite, Parts 1 and 2," that gave a lighthearted
moment in musical history.

Topic III. The Yale Seminar on Music Education (1963)

• Music educators have long been concerned with justification of music in the curriculum.

• This become particularly important following the Soviet Union’s successful launching of Sputnik I
in 1957.

• The “Sputnik revolution” of the late 1950s and early 1960s caused music educators to
reconsider why music should be included in the public school curriculum.” –John Cooksey

The Yale Seminar on Music Education:

 Took place at Yale University, June 17-18, 1963

 Meant to identify problems facing music education

 The idea came from the NSF (National Science Foundation)

National Science Foundation:

 President John F. Kennedy appointed the Panel on Educational Research and Development

Educational Research and Development:

 Recognized many successful scientist were also accomplished musicians

 Concerned about science overloaded curriculum
 Recognized that school music had not produced a musically literate public

Educational Research and Development

 Recognized many successful scientist were also accomplished musicians

 Concerned about science overloaded curriculum
 Recognized that school music had not produced a musically literate public

Items Raised on During the Seminar:

 Absorbing competent musicians into music careers

 Problems with musical materials
 Developing musicality

Items Raised on During the Seminar:

 Absorbing competent musicians into music careers

 Problems with musical materials
 Developing musicality

Basic Goals of the Yale Seminar:

 K-12 music curriculum should be the development of musicality

 School music repertory should be broadened
 Music curriculum should be expanded to include listening to worthwhile music literature

 Activities should include ensembles for which with varied and authentic repertory

 Advance theory and literature courses should be implemented

 Musicians, scholars, and composers should be brought into schools

 There should be a related plan for teacher training and retraining

Topic IV. The Julliard Repertory Project (1964)

• The Juilliard Repertory Project started shorty after the Yale Seminar by Dean Gideon Waldrop of
the Juilliard School

• Dean Gideon Waldrop sent in a grant application to the U.S. Office of Education to begin the
formation of a large body of ‘authentic’ music to supplement and enrich early grade music
currently available to elementary music teachers
 • The Julliard Repertory Project:

 Gathered large collection includes two hundred and thirty vocal and instrumental works

 Sufficed the Yale Seminars recommendations for high quality music in the public
schools.

 Had the support of the MENC (Music Educators National Conference)

Topic V. The Tanglewood Symposium (1967)

• The symposium assembled on July 23 – August 2, 1967

• At Tanglewood, outdoor performance venue of Boston Symphony

Purpose of the symposium:

 To start a “continuing dialogue between MENC members and the many other forces of music in
the modern world

Claims that were made in the symposium:

 American music is changing in style

 People collect music records the way they used to collect books

 The human quality of life is shaped by aesthetics and the role of music in society is changing

Challenges/declarations given:

 Need to build better audiences

 Need to teach music at 3

 Need for integrating music experiences:

 Listening

 Composing

 Performing

 Arranging

 Reading

 Music educators should create better programs for adults

 Confronting technology will soon be mandatory for music educators

 Topic VI. The Goals and Objectives Project (1969)
 Also known as the GO Project (1969)
 Paul R. Lehman – chairman and spearheaded the project
 The project has steering committee along with eight subcommittees that recommended for
specific aspects of music education

After considering the recommendation…

 After the recommendations had been considered, the Music Educators National
Conference (MENC) appointed two commissions:
1. MENC National Commission on Organizational Development
2. MENC National Commission on Instruction
 Throughout the publication, two levels of standards are provided – Basic and Quality

The body of the publication is devoted to the following areas:

1. music in early childhood

2. elementary school
3. middle school and junior high
4. high school

The four main sections include the following:

5. list of skills that students should have by the completion of each grade level.
The skills are divided into performing/reading, listening/describing, and valuing.

There are a few paragraphs devoted to beyond high school, conceding the difficulty in provided explicit
standards for musical learning beyond high school. Standards for implementation including
scheduling/course offerings, staffing, materials/equipment, and facilities are being developed.

The conclusion of the document is a brief description of evaluation, including six principles of evaluation.

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