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Article: Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction.(Book review)
- Article from:
- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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[website] Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction, by Robert Duke. Learning and Behavior Resources, (1401 The High Rd., Austin, Texas 78746), 2005. 176 pp.
Reading Robert Duke's newly published collection of essays is like witnessing a lecture by this influential music educator: energetic, thought-provoking, incisive and down-to-earth. Not every teacher will agree with Duke's premise that successful music teaching can be measured just as a "trial lawyer's work is evaluated based on his record of winning cases." But many teachers will benefit immediately from his applications to the studio and classroom of the "expansive, ...