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400
First Roman Schola Cantorum is created
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400
Antiquity
Antiquity muiscal time period -
Jan 1, 1040
Shinichi Suzuki Methods in Japan
All children have the ability and talent to learn music if they were taught well by loving parents and teachers. Proves that children can accomplish great things. Improved children's musical abilities along with morals. -
Jan 1, 1400
Reinassance
Reinassance musical time period -
Baroque
Baroque musical time period -
Boston Bay Settlement
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First Public School
Boston Latin School established -
First University (Harvard)
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Bay Psalm Book
Printed with no music -
Growth of Instrument Business
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Dulcian is developed
The 16th century instrument was known by a variety of names - curtal or curtail (English), basson or fagot (French), dulcian or fagott (German), fagotto (Italian), and bajon (Spanish). This ancestor of the bassoon, which was also played with a double reed, was fashioned out of a single piece of wood rather than the four separate sections common to today's bassoon. -
First Singing School for Adults
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3-key Bassoon
three-key model played during the time of Mozart -
New Instruments
Instruments arrive from London -- Flutes, Haut-boys, Flageolets, Bass-viols, Violins, Bows, Strings, Reeds for Haut-boys, books of instruction, and books of ruled paper -
Songbooks with Musical Notation
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6-key bassoon
six keys during Hayden's time -
Classical
Classical musical time period -
"Emil"
Jean Jasque Rousseau writes "Emil" noting that children learn differently than adults -
Curtal develops into 4 pieces
In the early 17th century, the curtal came in six sizes ranging in length from as short as 15" to as long as 4' 9". It was the French who later in that same century transformed the one-piece bass curtal into the four-piece instrument. -
"The Easy Instructor"
published with shape notation -
Lowell Mason
"Father of Public School Music Teaching" -
Romantic
Romantic musical time period -
Singing School of Children
Founded by Lowell Mason -
Boston Academy of Music
Founded by Lowell Mason with George James Webb -
Manual of the Boston Academy of Music
Published by Lowell Mason -
Free Singing Classes in Public Schools
With three assistants, Mason approached the Boston schools board and offered free singing classes in the public schools. -
Music Declared Regular Subject
Music is declared a regular subject and Mason and his assistants are hired as teachers -
Mason is Superintendent
Mason is named the superintendent of music in the Boston School System -
2 Schools of Bassoon
Two schools of bassoon-making arose in the 1880s: the French school under Buffet and the German school under Heckel. Each had it own solutions to tone production, fingering and intonation. -
Crane School for Music is Founded
One of teh first American institutions to have programs aimed at training public school music teachers. This greatly improved the skills of music teachers and proved that music teachers should receive a high level of training because only then are they quality music teachers -
Expansion of Repertoire
major solo and orchestral music was written for the bassoon elevating it's importance in the orchestra and it began to break away from just playing the continuo part. -
Contemporary
Contemporary musical time period -
MENC
Music Eduactors National Conference -
MSNC
Music Supervisors National Conference, develops into MENC - Outgrowth led by Philip Haydn from Iowa -
"Music Teachers Bulletin"
First music educators journal -
International Society for Music Education
Purpose was to stimulate music education as an integral part of general education. Believes that every individual has a right to music education -
ASTA
The American String Teachers Association was formed in order to return orchestras to schools (bands were increasingly popular, due in part to their high level of visibility in film.) -
"Sputnik"
Space-Race -- increase all education in the United States. -
Yale Symposium
Music Education is criticized -
Manhattanville Project
Develops sequential music program with an emphasis on learnign through performance -
National Endowment for the Arts
"Dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education -
Elementary Secondary Education Act
This program allowed for workshops and visiting lecturers in the arts. Many poor schools were able to purchase much needed equipment. -
Tanglewood Symposium
Response to Yale Symposium which results in musicl requirements in education -
Tanglewood Symposium
This symposium was a reaction to the cuts in music education at the time. It addressed issues of youth and urban education, and considered the topic of music in special education. -
Education Act for Handicapped Students
Paves the way for music therapy -
National Standards for Music Education
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Medieval
Medieval musical time period