A Manual of Instruction in Vocal Music (1833)

John Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 6
• The first music textbook designed for use in English schools, Turner's Manual is more than a historical curiosity. This, the first music textbook spec... Lees meer

A Handbook of Musical Biography (1883)

David Baptie

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 17
• A valuable source of information about many minor composers of the 19th century not found in other reference works, including the first edition of Gro... Lees meer

Music Explained to the World (1844)

F J Fetis, Bernarr Rainbow

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 13
• An enlarged reissue of the first translation of Fétis' classic 1844 music text for the general public. While teaching at the Conservatoire Nationale d... Lees meer

Plan for Teaching Music to a Child (1882)

Frederick Inman

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 34
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. Mary Elizabeth Inman's book was first circulated in manuscript then published in Edinburgh... Lees meer

Project Concerning New Symbols for Music

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernarr Rainbow

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 1
• [orig Fr: Projet Concernant de Nouveaux Signes pour la Musique, 1742]Rousseau, one of the most influential thinkers of 18th-century France, marked his... Lees meer

School Music Abroad (1879-1901)

John Spencer Curwen, John Hullah

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 15
• Accounts of a series of separate visits to schools in many parts of Europe and the USA at a time when the "myth" of continental musical supremacy was ... Lees meer

Singing for Schools and Congregations

John Curwen

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 14
• The first statement of the Tonic Sol-Fa method taken from Curwen's 1852 edition. The first developed statement of the Tonic Sol-fa method. The edition... Lees meer

Conversations on Harmony (1855)

Sarah Mary Fitton

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 33
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. The title page of this book refers to Miss Fitton as the author of Conversations on Botany... Lees meer

Substance of Several Courses of Lectures on Music (1831)

William Crotch

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 16
• Instrumental in the revival of early music, Crotch's C18-19th lectures on music were the first of their kind. The lectures on music which Crotch deliv... Lees meer

Music in Educational Thought and Practice

Bernarr Rainbow, Gordon Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 23
• One of the landmark texts in music education reissued and brought up to date. From its first appearance, this volume has been considered a standard te... Lees meer

Music and Education

Joseph Mainzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 12
• This text supports Mainzer's programme of music education through an exploration of the connection between music and Greek, and a definition of the na... Lees meer

The Singing Master

W E Hickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 10
• The work of a wealthy radical, this book enjoyed immense circulation in schools throughout the English speaking world for many years. The important pr... Lees meer

Early Essays on Musical Appreciation (1908-1915)

M a Langdale, S MacPherson

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 11
• Contains Mary Langdale's two pioneer and hitherto underestimated articles from The Crucible (1908), together with Macpherson's first essays from The R... Lees meer

The Juvenile Pianist (1836)

A Rodwell

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 31
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. Anne Rodwell's book, subtitled 'A Mirror of Music for Infant Minds', is presented in the f... Lees meer

Bernarr Rainbow on Music

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 27
• A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter... Lees meer

Singing for the Million (1841)

Joseph Mainzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 9
• Priest and activist Joseph Mainzer attempted to ameliorate the miseries of the poor through massed singing classes under the title Singing for the Mil... Lees meer

A Musical Grammar in Four Parts (1806; 3rd Ed. 1817)

J W Calcott

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 29
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. John Wall Calcott (1766-1821) was one of a small number of English musicians who compiled ... Lees meer

The Singing Book (1846)

James Turle, Edward Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 32
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. James Turle (1802-82) was organist of Westminster Abbey and Edward Taylor (1784-1863) was ... Lees meer

The Rudiments of Music (Rudimenta Musices, 1539)

Martin Agricola, John Trowell, Bernarr Rainbow

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 21
• The textbook prepared by the influential theorist and cantor of Magdeburg for use in Lutheran schools summarises medieval practice but is written with... Lees meer

Rationale for a New Way of Teaching Music

Pierre Galin, Bernarr Rainbow

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 8
• [from Exposition d'une Nouvelle méthode, 1818] Inspired by the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and persuaded that traditional methods of teaching m... Lees meer

Music Education in Crisis

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 24
• Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s. There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national ... Lees meer

Sir Arthur Somervell on Music Education

Elizabeth Jane Howard, Bernarr Rainbow

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 26
• The composer Arthur Somervell was also an Inspector of Schools with special responsibility for the teaching of music. His collected writings set forth... Lees meer

The Child's Introduction to Thorough Bass (1819)

Dorothy Kilner

• Paperback | Engels | Classic Texts in Music Education | nr. 30
• New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. At the end of the eighteenth century a new kind of women music teachers had begun to appea... Lees meer