Books in the Classic Texts in Music Education series

This volume presents reprints of the prefaces to representative collections of metrical psalms. Psalm-singing, an essentially popular form of music, required some musical knowledge in the singers, and it was in these prefaces thatthe compilers gave basic information on the staves, clefs and note-values of contemporary notation. Dr Rainbow's introduction is a fascinating guide to the changing tastes and needs shown by the carefully selected reprints.

New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education.

New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education.

The composer Arthur Somervell was also an Inspector of Schools with special responsibility for the teaching of music. His collected writings set forth his philosophy of music education and cast light on musical life between the 1890s and his death in 1937.

New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education.

New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education.

Introductions to a variety of texts used for teaching music.

Instrumental in the revival of early music, Crotch's C18-19th lectures on music were the first of their kind.

Priest and activist Joseph Mainzer attempted to ameliorate the miseries of the poor through massed singing classes under the title Singing for the Million, also the title of his English textbook.

A facsimile of Bathe's work, the first musical text book to appear in the English language, describes musical methods old and new and will be of great interest to musicologists and players of early music.

The first serious study of music in independent schools, which bears eloquent witness to a high standard achieved over the last fifty years.

Contains Mary Langdale's two pioneer and hitherto underestimated articles from The Crucible (1908), together with Macpherson's first essays from The RAM Club Magazine (1908) and his The Musical Education of the Child:some thoughts and suggestions for teachers, parents and schools(1915).

This text supports Mainzer's programme of music education through an exploration of the connection between music and Greek, and a definition of the nature of music in relation to its potential as an educational force.

An enlarged reissue of the first translation of Fetis' classic 1844 music text for the general public.

The first statement of the Tonic Sol-Fa method taken from Curwen's 1852 edition.