The Implications of Historical Research for Contemporary Music Education Practice in England.(Abstract)

The expansion of music teaching in schools during the twentieth century has led to a wealth of written material that addresses the evolving challenges and purposes of offering a musical education to young people. In the early part of the century, Yorke Trotter's realization that music could assist the development of aesthetic sense--what he called the "inner nature"(1)--began a long chain of reasoning that would encompass the cultural aims of the musical appreciation movement and later the desire for creative expression that characterized classroom composition.

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