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A number of researchers and music education advocates have argued that studying music enhances academic achievement, [21] such as William Earhart, former president of the Music Educators National Conference, who claimed that "Music enhances knowledge in the areas of mathematics, science, geography, history, foreign language, physical education ...
Throughout the history of music education, many music educators have adopted and implemented technology in the classroom. Alice Keith and D.C. Boyle were said to be the first music educators in the United States to use the radio for teaching music. Keith wrote Listening in on the Masters, which was a broadcast music appreciation course. [44]
The Tanglewood Symposium was a conference that took place from July 23 to August 2, 1967, in Tanglewood, Massachusetts.It was sponsored by the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) in cooperation with the Berkshire Music Center, the Theodore Presser Foundation, and the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Boston University.
Academic interest in music education lessened by the Renaissance as universities abandoned music as a part of their curriculum in the mid 16th century, [5] while the Protestant Reformation later brought some changes to music education, Martin Luther among other individuals suggesting that music, poetry, and history be added to standard ...
She founded the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1907. It was an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States. In 2011, it was renamed the National Association for Music Education and it had more than 130,000 members. [1] [8]
Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 – August 11, 1872) was an American music director and banker who was a leading figure in 19th-century American church music. Lowell composed over 1,600 hymn tunes , many of which are often sung today.
Basic Concepts in Music Education is a landmark work published in the USA 1958 as the Fifty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. In 1954, the Music Educators National Conference had formed its Commission on Basic Concepts in an attempt to seek a more soundly-based philosophical foundation.
Kratus, J. (1993). Eminence in music education research as measured in the Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 118, 21–32. doi:10.2307/40318590. Mark, M. L., & Gary, C. L. (1999). A history of American music education (2nd ed.). Reston, VA: National Association for ...