Music, language, and aesthetic education: a study from a dialogical perspective

Abstract This article aimed to explore the relationships between music, language, and aesthetic training, pointing out methodological implications for contemporary music education. It presents reflections that enable the elaboration of a theoretical-practical contribution from philosophical foundations for music as a language, which makes it possible to sustain the nature and value of musical education as an aesthetic training in basic education. To establish the proposed dialogues, the paper is based on the theoretical conceptions of Bakhtin and the Circle, a group of Russian intellectuals whose work and thought currently have a vast spiral of potential for research in human sciences. The article presents possibilities for music education based on students’ musical experiences.