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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1international as a translation of this course was published in Leipzig and used in German schools, and the method was adopted by the Japanese Government for use in the schools of that country following a three years' sojourn there by Mr. Mason as a governmental supervisor."5
3The course consisted of four pupils' books, a teacher's manual and charts. Mr. Newton, head of the Music Department, thinks that Mr. Mason was assisted by Julius Eichberg in the compilation of his fourth book. The song material was largely German and harmonic with its prevailing use of thirds and sixths in two-part songs. Mr. Mason used the tonic sol-fa modulator and Galin-Paris-Chevé notation, a modification of the tonic sol-fa, using numbers instead of syllables as a temporary step preceding study of the staff. Its basic principle is the revival of the movable "do." The second book, which was for intermediate use, developed music reading through a study, first in the key of C, of the scale, common intervals, simple rhythms and two-part singing. Then other keys were studied. In basing the start of music reading on rote songs Mr. Mason was the first advocate of the song method of teaching.
5In 1885 Ginn & Company published the "New National Music Course," a revision by L. W. Mason of the "National Music Course."
7In 1896 this firm published, as the result of its Turner Centre, Maine, Summer School, "The Mason Music Course," designed especially for rural schools. According to Osbourne McConathy "this course was distinctive in that it had two textbooks and a manual for teachers which gave instructions and directions and included accompaniments to the songs of the textbooks."6
9The next series of Ginn & Company, the "New Educational Music Course," by James McLaughlin, George A. Veazie and W. W. Gilchrist was issued from 1903-1906. It consisted of two primers, five readers, introductory and primary sight singing melodies, covering the first nine grades, and two teachers' manuals, one for the elementary and the other for higher grades. Later two more books were added, the Intermediate Song Reader for fifth and sixth grades and the Junior Song and Chorus Book for junior high schools.
115 Birge, Edward Bailey. History of Public School Music in the United States p. 99.
126 Ibid p. 133.
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