Each of the covers designed for the 638 issues of "Music Educators Journal" and her predecessors conveys a bit of our history. These covers are analogous to single frames from a motion picture in that they each tell a piece of the story about how NAfME grew as an association and how we developed as a profession. But many of the…

Considers the history of art, analyzes its specific features, and expresses some thoughts about its future. (RK)

Indicates a new awareness of the arts in schools and colleges. (DS)

Considered the debilitating influence that inflation is having upon the arts and the condition of public attitudes and support as a result of such economic policy. (RK)

Views the arts as sharing basic concepts central to aesthetic experience. Encourages aesthetic education in order to humanize character. (DS)

Considered the development of perceptual awareness in childhood, when habits of behavior are being formulated and response sets are being established. (Author/RK)

Article focused on what music is and how sound materials are put together and manipulated to produce expressive forms of music. (Author/RK)

Author explores the role of music in each person's life and investigates the question of whether music should be just another of the subjects taught at school, or should it be a strong, edifying influence in a child's upbringing. (Author/RK)

Presented literature references concerned with open education and provided guidelines for readings in philosophy, psychology, educational principles, infant schools as well as American programs and the teacher's role in the informal classroom. (RK)

Discusses the role of the arts council - to prepare the conditions in which art could occur - and the manner in which the community could find a true need for the arts. (Author/RK)

Discusses Stravinsky's Poetics, a book that adds an aesthetic theory to the revolutionary composer's legacy of masterworks, thus fusing theory with practice. (Author/RK)

Aesthetic education should be the strongest countervailing force against the superficiality of so much of people's experience. (Author)

Author accents the relationship between art and the times, and, as well, that the artistic task always takes precedence over technique. (RK)

Considered the arts as the center of the curriculum and how they relate to open education. (RK)