The Quest for Universal Music in the Lds Children’s Songbook
Before those music cognition milestones (twelve months, four to six years, twelve years), children may be able to perceive another culture's music as "music" and not "the other's music. Music can unite members around the world, if Church leaders successfully dismantle the mu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Foundation
2020
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In: |
Dialogue
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 4, Pages: 21-40 |
RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDH Christian sects RD Hymnology RF Christian education; catechetics |
Further subjects: | B
music education
B MUSIC education advocacy B MUSICAL ability B MUSIC psychology B songwriting B MUSICAL perception B Songbooks B Musicology |
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Summary: | Before those music cognition milestones (twelve months, four to six years, twelve years), children may be able to perceive another culture's music as "music" and not "the other's music. Music can unite members around the world, if Church leaders successfully dismantle the musical hierarchy that puts Western music and Western musicality in the center and relegates all other musics to an unintegrated periphery. The aforementioned studies of children's wide and varied musical abilities are significant because they suggest that children's music, rather than adult hymns, may provide the best chance the Church has of building a cross- cultural musical understanding. " 20 Musics of other cultures may be represented, but if children are taught to develop music processing in a way that makes the Western musical system "understandable", then the other musics of the world 17. |
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialogue
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.53.4.0021 |