For many, John Paynter has been the most significant figure in music education in Britain and beyond over the past 50 years. He remains widely influential through his work and his many publications, some of which are hard to locate. This collection of seminal writings, selected in collaboration with a range of music educators, brings the ideas afresh to a new generation of teachers, and includes useful introductory notes by John Paynter. The collection embraces the core topics and values of musi...

• Sound and Silence (1970)
• Music in a liberal education
• Learning from the present
• Silence
• Exploring stringed instruments
• From Hear and Now to All Kinds of Music (1972-9)
• Today's music is for everyone
• Autumn
• The role of creativity in the school music curriculum
• An interdisciplinary approach to music
• The first sunrise
• The small-group 'workshop'
• Performing from indeterminate notation
• The School Council Secondary Music Project (1973-82)
• How did we get here? ...