ABSTRACT
The aim of music education in schools and colleges is to raise to consciousness and purposefully and critically explore a number of musical procedures, experienced directly through the reality of various inter-cultural encounters. Music education is to participate in creating and sustaining musical events in the community, events in which people can choose to be involved and thus contribute to the rich variety of musical possibilities in the society. Human culture is not something to be merely transmitted, perpetuated or preserved but is constantly being re-interpreted. As a vital element of the cultural process, music is, in the best sense of the term, recreational; helping us and the cultures to become renewed; transformed. Music from outside the Western classical tradition has a great deal to offer us in terms of the fourth principle, of musical fluency taking precedence over what is sometimes called musical literacy. The aesthetic is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the artistic.
