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Excerpt from An Introduction to School Music Teaching
I should be the last person in the world to wish, at the present time at any rate, to dogmatize about such details. It is the spirit of the teacher, his breadth of View, his practical ability to make use of material means in secur ing ideal ends, the sincerity of his interest in making human life richer and happier through music, - these are the things that count, rather than such matters as Whether music reading is to be begun in the first grade or in the second; Whether the scale approach or the chord method is to be employed, and Whether the minor scale begins on la or on do. It is because I have felt that the supervisor of music in general was devoting too much of his thought to the smaller details, and too little to fundamental principles, that I have written these chapters, and it is my hope that through the publication of this book there may be set in movement certain thought processes which will result in giving music a larger and safer place as an educational subject in the American public schools, and that it may thus come to exert an ideal in?uence in the enrichment of human life, such as no art has ever had in the life of any people.
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