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Subject: Re: Music Education (was: Re: MR Vol. 5, #21)
Summary: bureaucratic pragmatism in music programs
Keywords: possibilities, compositional freedom
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Date: 16 Mar 90 21:55:05 GMT
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In article <14580@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
> (alot of information)

Very perceptive, Eliot.  I have neglect the relationship of
music departments to their larger parents:  the university
bureaucracy.  A program`s survival depends upon its perceived worth
in the eye`s of its funders.  Empirical tendencies in curricula
structure can justify a program regardless of its content.
Administrative bodies cannot be expected to understand compositional
values, so I can see that it is a true struggle to develop a program
that promotes freedom and restricts imposition as program evaluation
is the task of bureaucrats, not musicians.  With this reality
exposed,  I can only ask for as much freedom that I can get away
with.  

Christopher Penrose
penrose@do.ucsd.edu