Editor’s Noe Sally Hook, editor
The focus of this issue of Missouri School Music is “Music and Emotion.” The message almost went out to our contributors that the focus would be “Music and Motion.” Thankfully, a smart music educator saw the mistake and alerted us to the typo. “Music and Emotion” is a theme that contributors may write about straight from their hearts, but if the typo had remained as “Music and Motion,” I wonder how similar the submitted articles might have been? It made me think about how our emotions are manifested in our body movements. One comment I remember from yesteryear (when I was conducting junior high choirs) was, “We hear what we see.” Musicians show us how they feel by how they move. Remembering that crucial connection among body, mind, and spirit, brings music’s core to the surface.
If the articles in this issue cause you to have questions about what educators say and do, then you are thinking and growing as a musician. Thanks to the contributors who have taken time to share their thoughts and feelings through the motion of writing.
About the Cover Summer 2017 Music and Emotion
In visual art, elements such as shape, color, and texture have impact. In music, tone color, tempo, harmony and rhythm produce feelingful responses; all subjective, but also very real. Cover art by Thomas Trimborn, Professor Emeritus of Music Truman State University.
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