Følelseskunnskap – kunnskapsområde i musikkfaget?

Emotion knowledge – a field of knowledge in music education? This article presents music experience as a mediating tool for emotion knowledge, and further discusses emotion as a field of knowledge in music education. – The empirical project, which provides the basis for the discussion, proves music experienced as a mediating tool for emotion knowledge. The aspects of emotion knowledge related to music experience were in a preliminary analysis categorized as emotional availability, emotional consciousness, emotional empathy, emotional understanding, emotional reflection, emotional expressivity, emotional regulation and emotional interaction. The main analysis revealed other opportunities for investigation and categorisation, such as revocable and new, dynamic and static, individual and intersubjective, mental and embodied, pre-reflexive and reflexive aspects of emotion knowledge. – These results are in the discussion argued to be a field of knowledge in music education, based on arguments related both to phenomenology, pedagogy and music philosophy. However, different categorisations can easily hide important aspects of the research area, and the article concludes pointing in this direction. - Keywords: music, experience, education, emotion, knowledg