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The set won the 2005 R. R. Hawkins Award (Association of American Publishers) for Best Scholarly Work. [3]The first volume was particularly well received. It has been described as weaving "facts and impressions from histories, visual art and architecture" as an introduction to early music.
TeachRock is an education initiative created by the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by musician, actor and activist Steven Van Zandt.The initiative is based in New York City and aims to provide free standards-aligned, arts-integration curriculum and professional development workshops to K-12 schools nationwide.
The problems in music education the MMCP sought to address were the students’ rejection of music education upon reaching the stage of formal operations (logic & reasoning) observed by Jean Piaget, and the rejection of music in the educational environment as compared to the strong acceptance of music outside school.
An example of the note method is Joseph Bird's 1861 Vocal Music Reader and Benjamin Jepson's three-book series using "note" methodology. The Elementary Music Reader was published in 1871 [1] by the Barnes Company, one year after Luther Mason's The National Music Course. Benjamin Jepson was a military man turned music teacher in New Haven after ...
Southwestern Advantage (formerly known as Southwestern Company), is an education material sales company based in Nashville, TN.The privately owned company recruits college and university students as independent contractors to sell educational books, apps, and website subscriptions door-to-door using direct selling methods.
Its objectives were to develop a music curriculum and related materials for a sequential music learning program for the primary grades through high school. The project produced the Synthesis , a comprehensive curriculum for grades 3 through 12, Interaction , an early childhood curriculum, and three feasibility studies: The Electronic Keyboard ...
Shawnee Press, Inc., was an independent print and recorded music publisher and for a time, the largest educational music publisher in the world.The Company published several music types including choral, vocal, keyboard, handbell, instrumental, and classroom in a variety of styles.
Simon & Schuster purchased it in 1986, and merged it with Ginn & Company, a leading el-hi (elementary school and high school) textbook publisher - which formed the imprint Silver Burdett & Ginn. [2] In 1998, Pearson PLC acquired Simon & Schuster's educational businesses (which included Silver Burdett & Ginn) from S&S parent Viacom , and created ...