Music

School of Music

Music Education

Dr Roger Buckton and the directors of the Music Education Research Centre, David Sell and Merryn Dunmill lead research into Music Education.

Music education encompasses the following disciplines:
• symbolic learning
• technical skill acquisition
• audiation
• psychology
• aesthetics
• acoustics
• music history
• technology
• performance
• composition

The National Centre for Research in Music Education and Sound Arts (MERC) serves as the national hub for the coordination of and contribution to research in music education and sound arts. Through its activities the Centre will increase understanding and knowledge of the musical arts in education and in the wider community. MERC is devoted to developing the national and international profile of music education in Aotearoa New Zealand through its activities, partnerships and collaborations.

Sound Ideas is a journal devoted to music education concerns. Originally published three times a year (Volumes 1-6) by the School of Music, University of Canterbury, it is now a peer-reviewed journal and will be published on an annual basis as an on-line journal

Other current research in Music Education includes a PhD on “Music Education and Information Computer Technology” and an M A on ”An itemised study of the relationship between performances in selected musical tasks as revealed in the 2000 NEMP scores and of musical activities, both in and out of school, as revealed in the 2000 NEMP surveys”

Editorial Team:

  • Roger Buckton
  • Merryn Dunmill
  • David Sell

Individual Copies may be ordered at a cost of NZ$10 per copy

Still available from the School of Music, University of Canterbury

Volume 1

SI vol 1/1 SI vol 1/2 SI vol 1/3
  • No. 1 Music and the Arts: An arranged marriage?
  • No. 2 The business of music education
  • No. 3 Assessment in music education

Volume 2

SI vol 2/1 SI vol 2/2 SI vol 2/3
  • No. 1 Tangata whenua and tangata Pasifika: music of the people
  • No. 2 Music and learning
  • No. 3 "Switched on" Technology in music education

Volume 3

SI vol 3/1 SI vol 3/2 SI vol 3/3
  • No. 1 Music in Early Childhood
  • No. 2 Research in Music Education
  • No. 3 Nurturing through Music

Volume 4

SI vol 4/1 SI vol 4/2 SI vol 4/3
  • No. 1 Asians and Western European Music
  • No. 2 The Church and Music Education
  • No. 3 Practice and Perormance: Wordly Practices 

Volume 5

SI vol 5/1 SI vol 5/2 SI vol 5/3
  • No. 1 Where's the next gig? New challenges for music education
  • No. 2 Are you qualified to teach music?
  • No. 3 Blowing your own: makers and shakers

Volume 6

SI vol 6/1 SI vol 1/2 SI vol1/3
  • No. 1 Voices from the past
  • No. 2 Musical preferences - musical journeys through life
  • No. 3 Folk Music in a multicultural society

Volume 7

SI vol 7
  • Teaching to Listen

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School of Music
University of Canterbury
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CHRISTCHURCH 8140
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