Is Music Education Necessary for All?

Abstract

From ancient times until now, from Adorno to Zamacois, countless personalities from the world of philosophy, art, pedagogy, science and culture have expressed themselves in favor of the advantages of music education as part of the formation Integral of the person. However the underlying idea about the use and function of music has remained with few exceptions without a scientific basis that would give them the definitive support that they would deserve. We still know very little about the empirically demonstrable transfer effects that an intense relationship with music (that is, beyond the hour of weekly music that the Spanish educational system prescribes for Compulsory Education in our country and that sometimes is not even met In many schools) would have on the development of children (2) and young people. In an increasingly technological world where music is taking on roles that deviate from the educational field even in countries where traditional music education has traditionally enjoyed privileged status, we should be able to convince society of the importance of Continued musical practice as the best way to deal with the wide spectrum of (sub) musical cultures that have been unceasingly appearing one after another since the last years of the last century.