Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music. Music education scholars publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and teach undergraduate and graduate education students at university education or music schools, who are training to become music teachers.
A German kindergarten teacher instructs her pupils in singing
An elementary music teacher instructing a child in 1957 in the Netherlands.
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Depiction of Curwen's Solfège hand signs. This version includes the tonal tendencies and interesting titles for each tone.
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department, conservatory, conservatorium or conservatoire. Instruction consists of training in the performance of musical instruments, singing, musical composition, conducting, musicianship, as well as academic and research fields such as musicology, music history and music theory.
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories
Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine.
Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music.
Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere, a specialist music school in Weimar, Germany
