2013 Volume 43 Issue 1 Pages 13-24
The purpose of this study is to reveal the substance of the Contemporary Music Project's activities during its final phase. The activities in final phase consisted of three categories : Program 1 “Professionals-in-Residence,” Program 2 “Teaching Comprehensive Musicianship,” and Program 3 “Complementary Activities,” Program 1 “Professionals-in-Residence” was an activity to send resident musicians to communities. In this program, each musician was given a great liberty about the contents of his/her activity, and as a result, the efforts by each musician assumed a different aspect. Program 2 “Teaching Comprehensive Musicianship” had the goal to make some music educators develop new methods for teaching Comprehensive Musicianship. Among them, the project of Standifer and Reeder was important because it intended multicultural education through analytical leaning of the structure of minority's music. Program 3 “Complementary Activities,” as its name indicates, included many types of odd jobs that would complement Program 1 and 2. As I mentioned above, the activity of the Contemporary Music Project during its final phase had two dimensions, i. e., a propaganda aspect that distributes the previous achievements, and a progressive aspect that permits further diversification caused by each actor.
