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Deceased Old People
I'm Right, You're Wrong
German Litre
Your Child is a Brat
Churches and Trophies
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This dead old guy introduced music into American public schools and is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States.
Who is Lowell Mason?
100
Bennett Reimer claims that this man, who rejected aesthetic education, lacked respect for the formed outcomes of musical processes as being a precious, necessary dimension of music.
Who is David J. Elliott?
100
This is the hippest tune in our solar system.
What is Major Duple?
100
This rhyming phrase is often used to describe a teaching methodology commonly used in childhood music education in which students learn by ear as opposed to reading.
What is rote before note?
100
In the early 1700s, as part-time vocal teachers led classes to improve congregational singing and supply church choirs with new members, these institutions offered the first group music instruction in the United States.
What are singing schools?
200
This deceased geriatric was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in music education and social reform. He was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology.
Who is John Dewey?
200
In response to Lowell Mason’s rote method this man argued in his 1850 publication entitled “To Teachers of Music,” “Teach a class by rote and the 'Elements' and a few will read, but the greater number give up in despair…”
Who is Joseph Bird?
200
Some say that this man is a virtuosic African drummer.
Who is Doug Stone?
200
This basic principle is the best supporting argument for the value of music in school curriculum.
What are aesthetics/what is praxialism?
200
Historians credit these events, which began in the early 1920s, which lead to the standardization of band instrumentation, the practice of publishing full band scores instead of piano reductions, an increased emphasis on instrumental music in teacher training programs, and a phenomenal growth in enrollment for school bands.
What are band contests?