This
work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and
is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Copyright 1913. Each course is divided into thirty lessons with illustrations for each lesson, to be given with the Victor Talking Machine
Excerpt from What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study
in Music History and Appreciation for Four Years of High School,
Academy, College, Music Club or Home Study
The study of high
school music must be arranged to attract, hold and educate every boy and
girl, regardless of whether they can sing or not, and should furnish
opportunity, material and instruction that will enable them to become,
not professional musicians, but music lovers and appreciative,
intelligent listeners, knowing the world's music just as they know its
history, prose, poetry and art.
Heretofore, the ideals of high
school pupils in music have been virtually limited to the music they
themselves could produce, thus restricting their observation to a very
narrow field.
Music, when properly taught, stands for as much
mental development and general culture as any other subject in the
curriculum and should receive the same credits toward graduation from
the local school, and as entrance requirements in the colleges and
universities.