Teaching Music in Secondary Schools - A Reader (Paperback)

Teaching Music in Secondary Schools is the accompaniment to its practical-based counterpart in this series Aspects in Teaching Secondary Music. Together they form a comprehensive resource for those engaged with Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development in Music. Through this reader, student teachers and practising teachers will be introduced to the big issues and ideas abounding in music teaching today. As Gary Spruce puts it himself: if this book were to have a subtitle it would be 'Ways of Thinking About Music'. Our conception of what music is is a crucial factor in defining what we consider important subject knowledge to be, and by implication affects how we design our curriculum, what we teach and the way we teach it.
This key text will prove invaluable in the advancement of teachers' and subsequently pupils' understanding of music and its applications.