On aesthetics, Reimer states that aesthetic educators must be acquainted with the deepest values of music as they are understood by the professional scholars whose job is to explain them. These educators must represent the art of music to children as authentically and as comprehensively as they can understand and teach. In his approach to music education, Reimer includes materials from a wide spectrum of musical literature and promotes exposure to musics of other cultures. This he believes will bring us to a deeper understanding of our own being as well as our own relationship to those from other cultures. Musical experience includes a sensuous dimension.
Musical experience includes a creative dimension.
Under music literacy, Reimer s definition is more of the comprehensive musician, as he expects a music literate to be able to read and write notation and have the experience of performing. Performing is important as the performer s own subjectivities are changed, as one experience combining expressive needs and inner nurturing of those needs. In Toward an Aesthetic Education . Edited by Bennett Reimer. Music Educators National Conference, 1971.