1st Edition

Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music Fifty Years of Sound and Silence

By John Finney, Chris Philpott, Gary Spruce Copyright 2021
280 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music is both a celebration and extension of John Paynter and Peter Aston’s groundbreaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence , first published in 1970. Building on the central themes of the original work – the child as artist, the role of musical imagination and creativity, and the process of making music – the authors and... Read more

Part 1 Introductions

1. Purposes and Parameters

2. John Paynter – Thinker

John Finney

3. Voices

Part 2 Critical Issues in Creative Music Making

1. Sound and Silence Recontextualised

John Finney

2. Conceptions of the Creative Process in Music and Arts Education

Chris Philpott

3. Giving Value to Musical Creativity

Victoria Kinsella and Martin Fautley

4. Creativity as Ideology

Gary Spruce

5. Being and Becoming Musically Creative: A view from early childhood

Susan Young

6. The Pedagogies of the Creative Classroom: Towards a socially just music education

Gary Spruce

7. Music and the Making of Meaning

Chris Philpott

8. The Role of Community in Defining 21st Century Creative Practice: A design-led approach

Ambrose Field

Part 3 The Projects

1. Shapes into Music, Music into Shapes

Lis McCullough

2. Rhythms, Rhymes and Beats in Time

Ally Daubney and Ollie Tunmer

3. Propaganda, Protest and Politics

John Finney and Elizabeth MacGregor

4. Making Music for a Space

Rebecca Lewis

5. Music and Place

David Ashworth

6. Soundscapes of the Self

Micheila Brigginshaw

7. Music Technology and the Loop Sampler

Tim Palmer

8. Exploring Musical Sketchbooks

Elizabeth Hastings-Clarke

9. Repeats and Refrains

Elizabeth MacGregor

10. Concurrent Design

Ambrose Field               

11. Musical Revisionism

Elizabeth MacGregor

12. Layering and Repetition

Emily Segal

13. The One-Minute Solo

Tim Palmer

14. Rain

Nancy Evans

15. Eccentric

Nancy Evans

16. Desh and Dionysus

Susan Young            

Epilogue

Biography

John Finney taught music in secondary schools before teaching at Reading University, Homerton College and the University of Cambridge, where he led the postgraduate secondary course in music education. He has published widely on the interface between public policy and classroom practice in music education.

Chris Philpott is Reader in Music Education at the University of Greenwich, London. He has written and edited books, articles, online texts and resources that are widely used in initial teacher education and academic music education programmes.

Gary Spruce began his career as a secondary school music teacher. He is now subject leader for the pre-service music teacher education course at Birmingham City University. He has published widely on music education, particularly focusing on the relationship between music education and social justice and the professional development of teachers.