Music in School Instruction

THE FIELD OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS (of which music is a part) presents problems in research that have been discouraging to many musicians. Most musical performers have questioned the value of, or at some time bitterly resisted, any scientific approach to problems in the music field. For every topic that can be studied objectively these dissenting individuals will name a number of aspects in which evaluation is necessarily dependent on taste and judgment. In spite of such conditions, however, a considerable amount of research is going on. The reviewer has not had opportunity to examine the bulk of research that has recently been done. He therefore submits this report as being useful for its bibliographical suggestions, and as giving a certain overview of current thinking among musical people.