Music education and post-secondary music studies in Canada.

We generally speak of "music studies" as if they were straightforwardly and simply the study of music: learning about and/or developing proficiency in music, wherein "studies" are simply means to, and thus largely incidental to, the ends of musical expertise or fluency. But musical studies are not mere neutral means to musical ends, of significance solely in virtue of the music and musicianship they are concerned to impart. How we study, how we engage in our art with each other and with our students, and to what ends--the processes of musical education, in other ...