Roundtable: "Applied research" Music education at professional levels

Abstract

The text I propose for discussion at this round table begins by noting the scarcity of pedagogical literature for adult education in general and for adult musical education in particular. Music education seems to have concentrated on the issues related to the early stages of the musical exercise, thus leaving in a secondary place the professional development of these skills, as well as other forms of musical exercise that are not directly playing, singing, or composing. For this reason, to expand operatively our concept of music education, taking into account that we will increasingly have more adult students and that their demands will be progressively diversified: muticulturality, specialized repertoires, adults in permanent education, etc. In order to clarify this proposal, and based on my own professional qualification, I finally raise the epistemological differences between the concepts of "musical education" and "musicology", with a view to discussing the possibilities of confluence between both, since the path To make the proposal seems to require a process of investigation.