Arasi Timeline

By Benjaminavery1

  • English Settlers brought sacred music to the new world

  • Massachusetts School Law of 1642

    First law to require elementary music education

  • Massachusetts School Law of 1647

    Required each town with more than 50 families to appoint a teacher for music reading and writing

  • Thomas Walter complained about music being terrible

  • Lowell Mason convinced the BOE to include music as a curricular event

  • Emile Jaques -Dalcroze

    Was born

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Was Born

  • Carl Orff

    Was born

  • Dalcroze's lecture "Reform of Music Education in Schools"

  • Kodály's method books were composed

  • The contemporary era of music began in the 1950s

  • National Advisory Committee on Education

    They took steps to decrease dropout rate

  • MENC organized a consistent, solid foundation for music education

  • Ford Foundation donated 1,380,000 to schools for Arts

  • Sputnik

  • Young Composers Project Established

  • AASA Recommended a more balanced curriculum with arts and humanities

  • Yale Seminar

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • MENC published "Music in General Education

  • First Virginia Symposium, Tanglewood symposium

  • The Tanglewood Symposium

  • Cognitive Psychology

    Ulrich Neisser, a psychologist, defined cognitive psychology as "The Study of human cognition as it occurs in natural purposeful activity withing the ordinary environment

  • The First Internation Symposium on Orff-Schulwerk

  • "Project Zero" Founded at Harvard University

  • Nelson Goodman Published "Languages of Art"

  • MENC's Goals and Objectives project began in

  • Ford Foundation Funded the Kodály method to be brought to US

  • "A Philosophy of Music Education" Published

  • International Kodály Society was founded

  • National Commission on Instruction published a work

    Entitled "The School Music Program: Description and Standards"

  • The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)

    It was created

  • Getty Center for Education in the Arts' Book

    Published "Beyond Creating: The Place for Art in America's Schools

  • MENC Published the second edition of their goals for 1990

  • "On the Nature of the Musical Experience" Published

    Reimer and Jeffrey Wright

  • MENC established SRIG

    Philosophy of Music Education Special Research Group

  • MayDay Group Founded

    Group that discussed philosophical issues with music education

  • Vision 2020 Symposium

  • MENC 100th anniversary

  • Twentieth Society symposium Helsinki, Finland

  • "Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections" published