ABSTRACT
This chapter undertakes a review on key literature on musical development, highlighting that musical learning and development results from the interactions that children and young people experience with others and their surrounding environments as they develop. Learning is considered as a multifaceted process which takes place in many ways, not just solely through formal teaching. A brief, historically sequenced overview on major theories and key ideas on musical development is provided in order to contextualise the topic, and this leads on to a deeper review of Learning Power Theory (LPT). The chapter concludes with a discussion of how LPT can offer a reliable and up-to-date conceptual basis that music teachers and educators can use to conceptualise their teaching philosophy and approach.
