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Lu, Mengchen; Tan, Leonard – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2021
In 1952, John Cage wrote "4'33"" which famously asked the performer not to play a single note: "tacet." This provocative work raises a number of questions. In music--and by extension, music education--what does it mean to not do something? What does it mean to make no sound? More fundamentally, what is the nature of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Philosophy, Acoustics, Teaching Methods
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Thwaites, Trevor – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2013
Creativity is inextricably linked to the ontology of being; as the history of philosophy frequently shows, it encompasses both the need to transform and be transformed. In this essay I examine the notion of "being creative" on the way to opening up our relationship to the essence of creativity, taking Heidegger's interpretation of…
Descriptors: Music, Creativity, Ethics, Philosophy
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Thwaites, Trevor – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2013
Creativity is inextricably linked to the ontology of being; as the history of philosophy frequently shows, it encompasses both the need to transform and be transformed. In this essay I examine the notion of "being creative" on the way to opening up our relationship to the essence of creativity, taking Heidegger's interpretation of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music Education, Music Activities, Philosophy