Reflections on Fifty Years of Publishing with MENC

Bennett Reimer , "The College Course in Supplementary Instruments," Music Educators Journal 46, no. 6 (1956): 42, 44.

Bennett Reimer , "Teaching the Beginning Instrumentalist: A Guiding Philosophy," Virginia Music Educators Association Notes VIII , no. 4 (1956): 10-11.

Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, National Standards for Arts Education (Reston, VA: MENC , 1994).

Bennett Reimer , ed., Performing With Understanding: The Challenge of the National Standards for Music Education ( Reston, VA: MENC, 2000).

Bennett Reimer , "What Is Performing With Understanding?" and "An Agenda for Teaching Performing With Understanding," in Performing With Understanding: The Challenge of the National Standards for Music Education (Reston, VA: MENC, 2000).

Bennett Reimer , "What Music Cannot Do," Music Educators Journal 46, no. 1 (1959): 40, 42, 45.

For example, Susanne K. Langer , Feeling and Form ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953); John Dewey , Art as Experience ( New York: Minton, Balch, and Co., 1934); and Leonard B. Meyer , Emotion and Meaning in Music ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956).

As in Antonio Damasio , The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999) and Bennett Reimer , "New Brain Research on Emotion and Feeling," Arts Education Policy Review 106, no. 2 (2004): 21-27.

Bennett Reimer , "Facing the Risks of the Mozart Effect," Music Educators Journal 81, no. 1 (1999): 37-43.

My book A Philosophy of Music Education ( Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970) was the first of its kind. Chapters on philosophy of music education had appeared in Nelson B. Henry , ed., Basic Concepts in Music Education ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958) and Charles Leonhard and Robert W House , Foundations and Principles of Music Education (New York: McGraw-Hill , 1959). Abraham Schwadron's Aesthetics: Dimensions for Music Education (Washington, DC: MENC, 1967) presented an important explanation of how aesthetics can assist in the formulation of a music education philosophy. These and other earlier writings, such as by James Mursell, did not yet constitute a full book presenting a particular philosophical position .

So important was the change in our professional foundation from unity to diversity that my third edition of A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision , (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003) had to be a new book retaining only some scattered material (some 10 percent) of the previous editions. In it, I address the breadth of issues now facing us as to whether and how we can survive as a coherent yet multivoiced profession.

Bennett Reimer , Development and Trial in a Junior and Senior High School of a Two-Year Curriculum in General Music. United States Office of Education Project H-116 (ERIC Document Reproduction Service, 1967).

Bennett Reimer , Silver Burdett Music (Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1974 , 1976, 1981, 1985). Coauthored with Elizabeth Crook and David Walker (grades 1-6), and with Mary Hoffman and Al McNeil (grades 7, 8).

Bennett Reimer , "Education for Aesthetic Awareness: The Cleveland Area Project for the Arts in the Schools," Music Educators Journal 64, no. 6 (1978): 66-69. ■