Potential Uses of Television and Films in Music Education

A year ago a National Conference on the Uses of Educational Media in the Teaching of Music was held in Washington, D.C. under the co-sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Education and the Music Educators National Conference. The conference explored the progress and the potential of technological advances for application to music education. Every state was represented at the conference and all the state supervisors were in attendance to hear experts representing every category of educational media: films and television, audio devices, teaching machines and programed instruction, electronic devices and instructional systems, and printed materials. So far-reaching were the results of this conference and so pertinent to the improvement of music education that requests for copies of the conference position papers and task force reports have prompted the publication of these papers in the Journal. The first position paper, “Music Education and the Rationale Underlying Programed Instruction,” by Israel Goldiamond and Stanley Pliskoff appeared in the February-March,1965, issue. A second is published here. Succeeding Journals will continue the series, providing valuable information which could revolutionize music education.