The author states that among the various approaches to music education, her dialectical and epistemological view offers a way of thinking about music and education and deciding how to go forward in teaching and learning music. In this article, she shows how this particular philosophical perspective can play out in teaching for the development of…

The author attempts to briefly review the current state of music education; relate this situation to theoretical elements of the musical experience; describe the educational strategies required to deal with the complexity of musical experience; and suggest a possible pedagogical and theoretical orientation to the problems of professional music…