“Materias que distraen”: The Marginalization of Music in Spanish Schools

Álvaro Torrente

doi:10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6564

“Materias que distraen”: The Marginalization of Music in Spanish Schools

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Álvaro Torrente

Álvaro Torrente earned a degree in Musicology at the Universidad de Salamanca (1993) and obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge (1997). He is Lecturer in Music History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Head of the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales. His research and publications focus on the sacred villancico in the Iberian world and on Italian opera of the 17th and 18th centuries. His most recent publication is the volume La música en el siglo XVII of the new Historia de la Música en España e Hispanoamérica published by Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6564

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Music education, PISA assessment, Education legislation in Spain

Abstract

This article reviews the legislation related to music education in Spain, from the 1970 to 2016, to explain how its progressive integration in the schools curricula has recently been suspended under the believe, expressed in the Parliment by the highest education authority, that certain subjects, music among them, deflect students’ attention from the important matters such as mathematics, science or language.

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2016-12-30

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Torrente, Álvaro. (2016). “Materias que distraen”: The Marginalization of Music in Spanish Schools. Musica Docta, 6(1), 33–38. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6564