Beyond Listening and the Art of Educating through Sound: Rudolf Steiner’s Musical Vision within the Context of the Twentieth-Century Pedagogical Revolution

Abstract

The musical pedagogical guidelines within the Steiner-Waldorf tradition are presented and compared with the main strands of twentieth-century music education: the common underlying element is the adherence to and reworking of the so-called “active method”, which places the learner at the centre of the educational process, stimulating spontaneous participation and personalised, reworked learning of the educational content. Finally, a possible outline for a field study is proposed.