ABSTRACT
Music and the artistic imaginative world are multi-faceted – offering opportunities to encounter genuine emotions at the heart of our being. They permit an exploration and reflection upon different emotions from a distance. The liminal space that music affords, creates an environment where risk-taking and stepping outside normal behaviour are encouraged as part of entry into another world. These aspects make the music learning situation a powerful adventure in life. To be able to gain deeper understanding of the aspect of teaching music, it is beneficial for the pedagogue to reflect on their own feelings as a learner in a group. S. Malloch and C. Trevarthen define musicality as the expression of our human desire for cultural learning, our innate skill for moving, remembering and planning in sympathy with others that makes our appreciation and production of an endless variety of dramatic temporal narratives possible.
