Books in the Classic Texts in Music Education series

The work of a wealthy radical, this book enjoyed immense circulation in schools throughout the English speaking world for many years. The important preface presents new arguments for the teaching of music in schools; and the collection of children's songs which follows established the Moral Song as standard fare in 19th-century classrooms.

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.

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.

The first music textbook designed for use in English schools, Turner's Manual is more than a historical curiosity.

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.

A valuable source of information about many minor composers of the 19th century not found in other reference works, including the first edition of Grove.

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).

Accounts of a series of separate visits to schools in many parts of Europe and the USA at a time when the "myth" of continental musical supremacy was being seriously challenged in Britain.

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.

The definitive edition of the state-approved textbook used in Hullah's singing classes and in schools throughout Britain and the colonies during the second half of the nineteenth century.