Music Education


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Grade School Music Teaching; for Superintendents, Music Supervisors, and Grade Teachers


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... I chapter vi individual singing We are trying to do a number of things in school music work and one of the most important is that of teaching the pupils to read music. The musical effect of the singing of young children is usually best when they are singing in concert and for this reason much concert singing should be done. But few pupils learn to read music while singing in concert. That can only be learned individually. After pupils can read music individually, they may practice reading in concert with profit, but even then the slow ones have little chance to improve. The swift pupil will sing the tone before the slow one has had time to think it out and the tone of the good reader will go in the poor one's ear and out his mouth and never touch his brain at all. Years ago pupils clasped hands, swayed back and forth, and recited their lessons in unison. This plan allowed a few leaders to do all the work and kept the slow ones from learning anything. This variety of poor teaching has been largely laid aside, but it still survives in school music and its survival explains the poor results so often apparent in our public schools. The necessity for individual work in music has long been recognized and many schemes have been tried to meet this demand. When pupils do too much individual work, they will not sing well together and when they do too little, they will not read music well. In this, as in all other things, there is the happy medium to be sought. difficulties of individual work It is sometimes difficult to get children to sing alone. This depends, however, on the way individual singing is presented. Children realize the importance of doing things for themselves and they will gladly sing alone if individual work is put before them in...




Music in the Public Schools


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Excerpt from Music in the Public Schools: A Manual of Suggestions for Teachers Music in the public schools is a serious factor in the mental, physical, and emotional development of the child, and is as important in character molding as any other subject in the school curriculum. The four essentials of this subject are conceptions of good music, voice training, sight singing, and musical interpretation, and in this manual they are developed side by side for each of the eight years of elementary school life. This development is presented in the form of weekly outlines, by means of which results commensurate with the importance and dignity of the subject may be more easily obtained. These outlines are brief, definite, and free from irrelevant matter, and while they may be used advantageously with any series of music books, they are designed to be used with the New Educational Music Course No special attention has been paid to written work in music, as it is more or less beyond the scope of this book. The New Educational Music Haulers furnish ideal material for music education in the public schools, and are adapted for study, page after page, in consecutive order. Teachers who find it advisable or desirable to vary the consecutive order of presentation, to give special attention to one problem rather than another, or to carry on several lines of study simultaneously, will find that the grouping of the material in these readers makes such adjustment an easy matter. While all good methods of teaching have the same underlying principles, yet they may differ in detail. This manual simply presents one method, with occasional alternatives, which has proved eminently successful in teaching the New Educational Music Course in various public schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




School Music Handbook


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