Publishing Carnival

Question 0

Lowell Mason 1864

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Boston Academy of Music The Song Garden Three volume set that emphasized the rote song method- graded music series

Question 1

Lowell Mason 1834

Answer 1

Boston Academy of Music-Functions included advocacy

Question 2

Joseph Bird

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1861
Vocal Music Readers Oliver Ditson Company in 1861 A two volume set designed for primary and grammar grades and was opposed to Mason’s rote method that was emphasized in the Manual of the Boston Academy of Music

Question 3

Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Chambury

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1884
Boston The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Course Oliver Ditson 1884 The system used the movable do, and the tones of the scale were taught from a tone ladder. Notation followed the tone ladder and it used no staff and meter and rhythm were notated through dots, commas, and dashes

Question 4

George Loomis

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1866
Music supervisor in Indianapolis First Steps in Music Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor-Published Three volumes that introduced music reading by placing notes above or around a single line.

Question 5

Luther Whiting Mason

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1870
Began in Cincinnati with influence from Heinrich Hohmann(prescriptive lesson plans)/ Holt changed his mind on the rote approach “Elements of Music”-The Young Singer / The National Music Course-1870 Ginn Brothers of Boston (Ginn and Company) Consisted of seven books, sets of charts/ sequential approach to music reading- song material was based on German folk music and contained prescriptive lesson plans

Question 6

Benjamin Jepson

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1871
New Haven schools The Elementary Music Reader(1871) aka The Standard Music Reader (1888) A.S. Barnes Consisted of three books dealing heavily with sight-reading skills and consisted of exercises interspersed with songs

Question 7

Hosea Holt and John Wheeler Tufts

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1883
Boston The Normal Music Course Silver, Burdett and Company Series of five books which sight reading was the most important part- sight singing was the only way that students could truly understand music

Question 8

Charles Whiting

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1889
Public School Music Course Used the syllables TA and Te for teaching rhythms , according to some the way pitches were notated in this series proved to be a hindrance rather than a help

Question 9

Thomas Tapper and Frederick Ripley

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1895
Boston schools The Natural Music Course/ Harmonic Course 1903/ Melodic Course 1906 American Book Company Tonal relationships were very important and this course stripped away many of the gimmicks and approaches that got in the way of teaching music. Rhythms was joined to melody.

Question 10

J.A. Broekhaven and A.J Gantvoort

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1895
The Model Music Course Series of music readers that used both numbers (scale names) and syllables (music names) in the Primer for the 2nd grade

Question 11

James McLaughlin and W.W. Gilchrist

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1906
The New Educational Music Course Ginn Traditional approach to reading music and was very interesting to children because of its simplistic approach

Question 12

Smith and Foresman

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1914
Modern Music Series Silver Burdett and Company Songs appealed to children, pedagogy was experimental and suggestive, songs contain all the elements of music reading and of highest quality

Question 13

Editors: Osbourne McConathy, Edward Bailey Birge and W.Otto Miessner

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1914
Pioneered with McConathy in the schools of Chelsea Massachusetts-contained no exercises or scales existed for drill The Progressive Music Series Silver Burdett and Company used the song approach , contained singing games with large bodily motions, had teacher manuals as well as observational songs

Question 14

Hollis Dann

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1912
Hollis Dann Music Course American Book Company Dann placed primary importance on the study of tone and rhythm as well as musical dictation

Question 15

Edited by Karl Gehrkens and George Gartlan

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1920
The Universal Music Series Hinds, Hayden and Eldridge It’s primary objective was to develop a love for music, it allowed children to be creative and rhythmic activities were stressed. The series also included music history, analysis and listening

Question 16

Luther Mason 1896

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Mason Music Course Ginn and Company 2 textbooks and a manual for teachers and include accompaniments

Question 17

Francis Howard

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1899
Bridgeport, Connecticut- Howard was known for the child voice in singing with an emphasis upon learning to do by doing Novello Music Course H.W. Gray Company Music reading comes through rhythmic flow is pointed out with this music course and the teaching philosophy of Howard