Music In Education Unesco

Music In Education Unesco
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Year : 2005
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The International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults, held in Brussels from 29 June to 9 July 1953, was the result of close collaboration between Unesco, which was responsible for its organization, and the International Music Council, which drew up its plan of work. It forms part of an extensive programme undertaken from 1949 onwards, in order to determine the place of the arts in general education and their importance in the formation of personality. For that purpose, Unesco organized in 1951 at Bristol (U.K.) a seminar on the teaching of the plastic arts, and helped the International Theatre Institute to prepare the programme of two international conferences on the theatre and youth which were held in Paris in 1951 and at The Hague in 1953. The Brussels Conference on music education completed this cycle of work dealing with the teaching of the arts in schools and in the community.

The aim of this conference was to study in their entirety problems connected with non-specialized music education, the purpose of which is not to form professional musicians, but to develop the appreciation, taste and critical judgment of the listener from his earliest youth, so as to train him and enable him to appreciate the beauty and wealth of musical masterpieces.

The conference also set out to define the methods best suited to school education, adult education, and the training of music teachers.

International exchanges of information, persons and teaching material; the activities of national or international governmental institutions, and the role of music education as a means to international understanding, were also the subject of special study.

Another very important purpose of the conference was to bring together for the first time, at least in such large numbers, specialists in music education, composers, music teachers, students and performers ; in short, representatives of all branches of musical activity, drawn from all parts of the world. The conference hoped to provide these different specialists with an opportunity to exchange their ideas on certain questions and to attempt a comparison of the experience acquired in their respective domains.

The aim of the meeting was twofold: first, to determine the position of music teaching throughout the world, and secondly, to discover methods of raising the standard in regions where music education has not yet been fully developed.

The work of the Brussels Conference was continued at the International Congress on the Professional Training of Musicians, which was held, partly at Bad Aussee and partly at Salzburg, from 5 to 25 July 1953. The object of this congress, which took place under the auspices of Unesco, was to complete the study of music education undertaken by the Brussels Conference.