What Does Musical Talent Look Like to You? And What is the Role of the School and its Partners in Developing Talent?

Abstract

Off all the gifts with which individuals may be endowed none emerges earlier than musical talent

(Gardner 1993).

This short article is written to ask you to address the title question. What does musical talent look like to you? And I hope you might be motivated to send me some short case studies or vignettes of individuals whom you consider or have considered to be musically talented. I have used a large number of examples citing boys in this article as it is suggested that more girls than boys are studying music at present.