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Gifted instrumentalists: how can we recognise them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Janet Mills
Janet Mills
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Lecturer in Music and Educational Studies, Westminster College, Oxford
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The popular view that ‘the gifted can look after themselves’ is considered with reference to the identification of gifted orchestral instrumentalists. Among agroup of professional orchestral musicians, a substantial number are found to have started lessons on their principal instrument not on their own initiative, but on that of their school. The absence of a ‘method’ for the identification of gifted instrumentalists is considered, and some ways whereby the music teacher may develop an environment in which more gifted instrumentalists identify themselves are suggested.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 39 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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