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Appropriately, the first ideal in any consideration of directions for music teaching and learning is about musicianship: “critically reflective musicianship.” As the first action ideal of Action for Change states, “Musical action that is fully mindful of musical results is the necessary condition of music-making and, therefore, of an effective music education” (MayDay Group 1997 see pp. xxxi–xxxvii above). On first glance this might sound a lot like the old adage “practice makes perfect,” or the well-known quip by a New Yorker when asked how to get to Carnegie Hall: “Practice, practice, practice.” Indeed, these aphorisms do represent the conventional, “commonsense” understandings of musicianship with its goal-oriented musical results coming directly from hard and persistent work.
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Johnson, R. (2009). Critically Reflective Musicianship. In: Regelski, T., Gates, J. (eds) Music Education for Changing Times. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2700-9_2
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