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A Comparison of the United States' National Music Standards and England's National Music Curriculum

Lowther, Gail Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236804608

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2010, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Education/Comprehensive Music Education.
The purpose of this study was to compare the National Music Standards of the United States with the National Music Curriculum of England. Accordingly, I researched the history of standards-based reforms in education and the arts in the United States and England, beginning with the changes in each country's national education policy as the result of World War II and culminating with the development of the American National Standards for the Arts and the English National Music Curriculum. Furthermore, I analyzed the National Music Standards and the National Music Curriculum and compared the documents' organization, components, and specified goals for student achievement in music. In comparing the two documents, I determined that the American National Music Standards and the English National Music Curriculum include almost the same list of knowledge and skills for elementary and secondary music study. However, whereas the National Music Standards focus on developing high levels of performance skills, the National Music Curriculum concentrates more on helping students understand and invoke the expressive potential of music. The differences between the two documents suggest possible implications for American music educators, such as incorporating more opportunities for creative musical expression through performance and composition, using invented or graphic notation systems, and applying personal and/or peer evaluation of students'compositions or performances to facilitate student improvement.
Vincent J. Kantorski, PhD (Advisor)
Sandra Frey Stegman, PhD (Committee Member)
215 p.
Music Education
Music education; United States; England; National Standards; National Curriculum; Standards-based reform; National education policy

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  • Lowther, G. E. (2010). A Comparison of the United States' National Music Standards and England's National Music Curriculum [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236804608

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lowther, Gail. A Comparison of the United States' National Music Standards and England's National Music Curriculum. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236804608.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lowther, Gail. "A Comparison of the United States' National Music Standards and England's National Music Curriculum." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236804608

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