Small Chronicle about footnotes in Music Education. Reflections on the theory of musical learning

Authors

  • Helena Rodrigues Departamento de Ciências Musicais da F.C.S.H. - U.N.L.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/LEEME.8.9730

Keywords:

Music education, Psychology of Music, Music Learning Theory.

Abstract

The works and ideas of Edwin Gordon, an American researcher who owes some of the greatest contributions in the Psychology of Music and Musical Pedagogy of the time, have aroused great interest in the Portuguese Music Education scene. His research into the assessment of musical fitness and performance, his theory of musical learning, and especially what he proposes as musical orientations for newborns and children in preschool age have had a huge echo in our country. Rather than exposing the principles of his theory, I propose in this text to share some reflections and personal meanings that the privileged contact with this researcher has provided me since 1994.

References

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Holahan, J. (1986). "Teaching music through music learning theory: the contribution of Edwin E.

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Rodrigues, H. (1994). "Avaliação da aptidão musical: elementos para uma definição". Psychologica, 11, 91 - 100.

Santos, B. (1998). Um discurso sobre as ciências. Porto: Edições Afrontamento. (1) Os leitores poderão encontrar nos Boletins da APEM n.º 88 e 90 artigos sobre a teoria da aprendizagem musical bem como uma lista das obras de Edwin Gordon.

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Published

2017-02-16

Issue

No. 8 (2001): Electronic Journal of Music in Education

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Artículos

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