This article grapples with the relationship between curriculum theory and teacher education. Using Yeat's poem, "The Second Coming," I characterize three periods of teacher education in North America, suggesting we are now on the brink of a fourth period. My premise is that teacher education is central to a Faculty of Education. Take away teacher education and you have precipitated the demise of the Faculty. Central to teacher education is curriculum theory. Take away curriculum theory, and you have precipitated the dissolution of teacher education. Hence, as we approach a new and unknown era in music teacher education, we need curriculum theory to evoke spots in time whence our minds are nourished and invisibly repaired.