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Public education in the United States first offered music as part of the curriculum in Boston in the 1830s, and it spread through the help of singing teacher Lowell Mason, after he successfully advocated it to the Boston School Committee in 1838. The committee ultimately decided to include music as a curricular subject because it was of a moral ...
The Fender Music Foundation (FMF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants musical instruments and equipment to ongoing music education programs in the United States. Many of the grants they award go to music education in schools and organizations for under privileged or mentally disabled children, teenagers and adults.
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) is an association of post-secondary music schools in the United States and the principal U.S. accreditor for higher education in music. It was founded on October 20, 1924, and is based in Reston, Virginia. The association's accreditation of schools of music began in 1939.
This is a list of United States schools of music and colleges and universities with music schools. Alabama. The University of Alabama School of Music; California
Save the Music Foundation (STM), formerly known as VH1 Save the Music, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports music education in public schools. Working directly with communities to address systemic inequities in music education and create sustainable programs, Save the Music has donated more than $78 million in instruments and music technology equipment to approximately 2800 public ...
The Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra (GDYO) is a youth orchestra in Dallas, Texas, US, [1] founded in 1972. GDYO has grown from a single orchestra of 35 members to a program of over 450 members. The principal group is the eponymous symphony, presently under the direction of the Maestro Richard Giangiulio. The organization as a whole comprises ten ...
This is a list of music organizations in the United States. It does not include symphony orchestras or other performance groups, or educational and research institutions unless they have significant programs outside the fields of education, research or performance. It does include corporations or record labels.
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]