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Children's aesthetic decision-making: an analysis of children's musical discourse as composers
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Barrett, MS, Children's aesthetic decision-making: an analysis of children's musical discourse as composers, International Journal of Music Education, 28, (1) pp. 37-61. ISSN 0255-7614 (1996) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1177/025576149602800104
Abstract
In this study I promote a view of children's aesthetic decision-making as a non-verbal process evidenced in the structural features children employ in their musical discourse as composers. I draw on the work of Polanyi and Wittgenstein to support the view that knowledge may be demonstrated as well as 'stated' verbally, and that the examination of children's musical discourse as composers provides us with direct access to their musical thinking and aesthetic decision-making. Through the analysis of the form and structure of one hundred and thirty-seven compositions collected from children aged between five and twelve years children's aesthetic decision-making is identified and described. Findings of the study suggest that children's aesthetic decision-making as demonstrated in their use of structure and form in their musical discourse as composers is not necessarily linked to age or prior experience. © 1996 International Society for Music Education.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Specialist Studies in Education |
Research Field: | Learning Sciences |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other Education and Training |
Objective Field: | Education and Training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Barrett, MS (Professor Margaret Barrett) |
ID Code: | 7099 |
Year Published: | 1996 |
Deposited By: | Early Childhood and Primary Education |
Deposited On: | 1996-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2011-08-16 |
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