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"Of all the arts, music is often taught in the least creative way. At every level, kindergarten through graduate school, music is presented to students as a preexisting body of literature with which the student must become familiar.... Seldom if ever are students invited to use the medium of sound to fashion their own totally original musical expressions." (1)
--Charles Fowler
Reading Charles Fowler's words, I was struck both with a sense of their accuracy and my own shortcoming as a studio teacher who comfortably pursued the conventional approach he criticized. Fowler's words made me realize that, in a way, I was "a part of the problem, not part of the ...