Elliott about music

In the process, I utilized Elliott’s (1995) way of explaining music by using his three visual variations on the word music: MUSIC, Music, music. The students began to think of and approach music in a multidimensional way, as: understand that music is (1) MUSIC – a worldwide human phenomenon; music is something that people do everywhere according to different kinds of cultural-musical knowledge and style preferences in their musical communities; (2) Music – stands for one specific musical style; and (3) music refers to specific kinds of musical products, such as compositions, improvisations, and so forth. Elliott writes that a specific style of music is an identifiable outcome of a particular musical community that shares a tradition, principles, standards,

and musical preferences (pp. 43-44)