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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty
I have already stated that the other arts have for their ideal that fusing of subject and expression which in music is complete, and I have further stated that the purpose or object of music is to present emotion ordered and guided by the mind and illumined by the imagination.
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Community Music - An Experiment
I live in a town of some six thousand in-habitants which about answers to the description given near the beginning of this article. There was a singing society in the place about thirty years ago, but since then there has been little choral singing.
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Community Music - Music By Proxy
IN the preceding chapters I have dealt with special musical subjects, and have constantly referred to music as a distinct and independent art having its own reasons for existence.
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Community Music - Our Musical Activities
As a preliminary to this discussion it will be well to look at the present status of music among us, and to see how near we come to this necessary intimacy with the art.
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Community Music - What We Might Do
I have indicated in a former chapter some-thing of our needs as regards the musical education of children. The problem before me now is how to persuade American men and women into active cooperation in making music.
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Distinction Between Music And Other Arts
ANY discussion of the art of music, of its significance in relation to ourselves, of its aesthetic qualities, or of methods of teaching it, — to be comprehensive, must be based on a clear recognition of the one important quality which is inherent in it, which distinguishes it from the other arts and which gives it its peculiar power.
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Elements Of Music
The primal element in music is vibration. Sound-waves in some ordered sequence-silent till they strike our ears are formed by our ingenuity and sense of order into patterns of beauty.
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Music As A Social Force
Leaving this actual experience and its effects on the community, let us ask ourselves what this singing means to the individuals who do it. In the first place, it makes articulate some-thing within them which never finds expression in words or acts.
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Music Education - Activities In School Music
One of the encouraging signs of our advancement is in orchestral playing. School orchestras have become important features of school life, and the excellence of some of the orchestral playing is remarkable.
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Music Education - Attempts At Reform
I have drawn the foregoing conclusions from an extended observation and experience of public school music, and I ought to add lest the record seem too despairing that in a considerable num ber of places intelligent and open-minded men and women have been doing their best to stem the tide of inferior music and of artificial methods of teaching.
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Music Education - False Methods Of Teaching
That compliance of ours to which I have referred is nowhere more evident than in the large sums we spend on the teaching of music, and in our ignorance of the results. School boards and school superintendents usually possess little knowledge of the subject and have no means of knowing the quality and the effect of music teaching save by such evidences as are supplied by the singing of the children at the end of the school year.
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Music Education - Good Or Bad Music?
For eight years, then, in our public schools children are taught as far as may be to sing at sight. Is there a fine song which presents a certain difficulty, it is placed in the book at the point where that difficulty arises, and is treated as a sight-reading test.
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Music Education - Public School Education
IT is characteristic of our compliance in matters educational that of late years we have seen subject after subject added to the curricula of our public schools, and have cheerfully voted money for them, without having much conception of their value or of the results attained by introducing them.
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Music Education - Value Of Public School Education
In the last chapter I referred to the qualities in music which make it especially valuable for children, and what I said there applies with equal or even greater force here.
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Music For Children - Pianoforte Lesson
But the majority of the children who have private instruction in music take lessons in pianoforte-playing. It has become a custom ; the pianoforte is an article of domestic furniture (and a very ugly one); pianoforte-playing is a sort of polish to a cursory education.
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Music For Children - Real Goal
These questions now inevitably arise : How can children be taught music itself? By what process is it possible for them to become musical?
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Music For Children - Training The Sense For Beauty
IN what I have to say about music for children I am not unmindful of the diversity of American life, and of the prevalent idea that Americans do not pay much attention to music (or to any other form of beauty) because they live in a new country in which the greater part of their energy is devoted to subduing nature and carving their fortunes.
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Music For Children - Value Of Singing
In the first chapter I discussed the qualities and properties of music as such music, that is, in its pure estate, unconnected with words as in songs, or with words, action, costume, and scenery, as in opera.
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Music For Children - What Should Children Sing?
But even these artificial and false methods are less harmful to children than are the poor, vapid, and false songs by means of which their taste is slowly and surely disintegrated.
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Musical Life - Conclusion
ONE of the most unfortunate conditions sur-rounding our musical life is the small part men take in it. This is not altogether their fault.
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Significance Of Music
Music deals first of all with feeling or emotion. But since emotion may be guided by the mind and transfused by the imagination, since emotion is not a separate and isolated part of our being,— so music may be so ordered by the mind and so transfused by the imagination as to become intellectual and imaginative.
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The Lure Of Music - Introduction
DURING the last twenty or thirty years there has been an enormous increase in the United States of what may be called institutional music.
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